College Study Skills: Becoming a Strategic Learner
By Dianna L. Van Blerkom
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A market leader for the study skills course, COLLEGE STUDY SKILLS: BECOMING A STRATEGIC LEARNER, Seventh Edition is a wide-ranging, practical text that focuses on helping students become actively engaged in their own learning. The text incorporates active learning strategies to help students succeed in college by introducing a strategy, allowing them to practice it, and having them do self-assessments to gain feedback on their own success. This variety of strategies and activities, as well as authentic and engaging text material from numerous core subject areas, gives students opportunities to apply what they are learning to their course work in other college classes. The Seventh Edition has a new focus on motivation. Chapter (1) Getting Motivated focuses on the importance of motivation in college success. More information on the causes of motivation problems and strategies for increasing motivation are also included, and each of the chapters that follow in the text strengthens the connection between motivation and the strategies that are presented, so that students continue to increase their motivation throughout the course.
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A market leader for the study skills course, COLLEGE STUDY SKILLS: BECOMING A STRATEGIC LEARNER, Seventh Edition is a wide-ranging, practical text that focuses on helping students become actively engaged in their own learning. The text incorporates active learning strategies to help students succeed in college by introducing a strategy, allowing them to practice it, and having them do self-assessments to gain feedback on their own success. This variety of strategies and activities, as well as authentic and engaging text material from numerous core subject areas, gives students opportunities to apply what they are learning to their course work in other college classes. The Seventh Edition has a new focus on motivation. Chapter (1) Getting Motivated focuses on the importance of motivation in college success. More information on the causes of motivation problems and strategies for increasing motivation are also included, and each of the chapters that follow in the text strengthens the connection between motivation and the strategies that are presented, so that students continue to increase their motivation throughout the course.
A section in the opening chapter introduces and explores the concept of becoming a self-regulated learner, providing an effective model students can use to approach college-level academics and apply in many or all of their courses. Each chapter includes motivational basis for using the strategy, instruction in the strategy, student examples, exercises for practice, and activities for self-evaluation.
A chapter on taking essay exams combines essential content and activities previously covered in two chapters for a more focused presentation and a streamlined overall structure, making the current edition more manageable and practical for instructors and students.
The Seventh Edition contains an expanded selection of group activities, offering more opportunities to explore key concepts or practice essential skills through classroom exercises or collaborative assignments.
The seventh edition of COLLEGE STUDY SKILLS: BECOMING A STRATEGIC LEARNER is replete with a wide variety of excerpts, real-life student examples, and engaging and relevant exercises, freeing instructors to focus on teaching and engaging with students instead of devoting time to research and select appropriate supplemental materials.
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