PACE 111B Wake Technical Community College Wk 2 DAACS Reflection

This week, you used the Diagnostic Assessment and Achievement of College Skills, or DAACS, to assess your college readiness in the subject areas of reading, writing, math, and self-regulated learning. Your Summary Report provided you with feedback and resources that you can use to increase your chances of success here at UMGC. Wed have incorporated this assignment in your PACE course because research shows that students who use DAACS are significantly more successful than those who do not.

In this Discussion forum, please share some examples of how you can use what you learned from DAACS in your time here at UMGC. Please post your reflections on taking the DAACS assessment by answering one of the following prompts:

• What is one area of reading, writing, math, or self-regulated learning that you could improve, according to DAACS? What feedback or resource within the DAACS could support you in improving in this area?
• What is an area in which you did really well? How might you capitalize on your strengths to succeed in college? Please explain.
• What is an area of self-regulated learning that you committed to improving in your essay? What strategies did you identify that can help you improve? What can you do to follow through on your improvement plan, this semester and beyond, with specific strategies?
• When you explored the links to recommended resources in your feedback, what did you learn there? Thinking of one or two, how will they help you? Would you recommend the resources to others? If not, what might be more helpful?