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Using SMART Goal Setting to Advance Student Achievement and Confidence

Credit: iStock.com/DaLiu
Credit: iStock.com/DaLiu
Students often struggle academically due to an inability to organize their lives around achievable goals. Students beyond early adulthood may have already reached certain personal goals but now must balance their priorities, time, and resources in striving for academic goals while still maintaining structure and commitments in family and personal relationships. Faculty can help by teaching goal setting and having students establish goals around a particular class or degree using the SMART goals method.

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