A poll of 30 University of California, Merced students living in the freshman dorm of Mariposa provided responses about their thoughts

on active learning. Demonstrating from the pie charts from the previous page, this demonstrates their knowledge on active learning. As we can see from the document provided a majority of freshman students (53%) strongly agree or agree that it takes them a while to learn new information that they have no prior knowledge about. While 30% of freshman students are neutral and the other 17% strongly disagree or disagree. The book On Course states that it does take a long time to learn information that people have no prior knowledge about. Although a majority of students answers were similar to the book, there is still a large percentage that say they do not need to have prior knowledge in order to fully understand information they have recently learned. 73% of freshman students strongly agree or agree that if their learning skills are shaky, then they will have difficulties learning new material. In a way this also shows that if students learning skills are shaky, they might lack confidence in learning new material because it might intimidate them. 61% of freshman students strongly agree or agree that the y tend to do well on exams when they study in a group while 37% of freshman students strongly agree or agree that they tend to do well on exams when they study alone. 61% of students understand deep processing without even knowing that they understand it. Deep processing is finding strategies that can helps a person master understanding when they are learning and it helps them maximize their learning. Studying in a group usually helps improve test scores because it forces students to actively participate in learning.

47% of freshman students strongly agree or agree that staying up late does help improve their test scores. Although students might think that staying up late helps their grades, the book states otherwise. Even though students might do well, they are not fully understanding what they are learning. They are only storing the information they learned in their short term memory causing them to forget later on. If students constantly study daily before a test, this helps store the information in their long term memory. Studying daily also helps with understanding the material a bit more because they are constantly seeing the material. On one of the pie charts, 66% of students strongly disagree or disagree that an all-night cramming session remains in their long term memory. With the active learning survey of Mariposas freshman building we can concluded that some students understand active learning but are not fully practicing it, hence the information we got from the survey.