Learning from the Learners (eBook, PDF)

Successful College Students Share Their Effective Learning Habits
Redaktion: Berry, Elizabeth; Rawitch, Cynthia Z.; Huber, Bettina J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book turns the traditional approach to student success on its head by examining the learning habits of successful students based on what they have told us about their learning strategies, on what they do to succeed in college, and on the teaching practices they think best foster their learning. This approach is in stark contrast to most recent studies of learning at the college level which focus on what students need to do to succeed, but are written from the point of view of "experts" who provide advice to struggling students. Learning from the Learners: Successful College Students Share Their Effective Learning Habits is based on what "expert" students tell us about what they - as learners - do to succeed. It is grounded in a 10-year study that rests on a rich qualitative data set that includes open-ended survey responses gathered on a term-by term basis and in depth interviews during the freshman and junior years with over 700 students of diverse backgrounds. Additionally, since many students interviewed were the first in their family to attend college and from backgrounds traditionally underserved by higher education, the book's insights will be of particular interest to educators elsewhere who are increasingly expected to help similar students succeed. Themes include student success, academic challenges, diversity, pedagogy, and technology in the classroom. No other book on the widely discussed subject of student success relies on such a wealth of quantitative and qualitative data about what works from the point of view of students themselves.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 1
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216241249
• Artikelnr.: 75138609

Autorenporträt

Elizabeth Berry is professor emerita at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). She initiated and was director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, the faculty pedagogy support center at CSUN. She has served as codirector of the Learning Habits Project since 2007. Bettina J. Huber was CSUN's director of Institutional Research (IR) until her retirement in 2017. She was also codirector of the Learning Habits Project from 2007 until 2017. Cynthia Z. Rawitch is professor and administrator emerita at CSUN. Prior to coming to CSUN as a part-time instructor in 1972, she was a reporter and editor at the Associated Press in Los Angeles and "professor-in-residence" for the Los Angeles Times' Minority Editorial Training Program (METPRO).

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword - Harrold Hellenbrand Part I: Project Parameters Chapter 1: The
Evolution of the Learning Habits Project: Methods and Procedures - Bettina
J. Huber Chapter 2: Who Are the Learning Habits Students and Why Do They
Persist? - Bettina J. Huber Part II: Differing Patterns of Engagement
within Major Student Subgroups Introduction Chapter 3: Being the First To
Go to College - Steven Graves Chapter 4: The Role of Gender in Fostering
Persistence and Effective Learning Habits - Bettina J. Huber Chapter 5:
Campus Diversity and College Learning Through the Eyes of Learning Habits
Students - Bettina J. Huber Part III: Key Themes in Teaching and Learning
Introduction Chapter 6: Reading with Understanding: What Do College
Students Say? - Elizabeth Berry and Linda S. Bowen Chapter 7: Gains in
Written Communication between the Freshman and Junior Years - Irene L.
Clark and Bettina J. Huber Chapter 8: PowerPoint Fatigue and the Rabbit
Hole of Internet Stuff: Students and Technology - Donal O'Sullivan Chapter
9: Sliding Into Learning: The Power of Webnotes - Carrie Rothstein-Fisch
and Sharon M. Klein Part IV: Fostering Student Initiative Introduction
Chapter 10: Factors Influencing Academic Help Seeking by College Students -
Mark Stevens and Peter Mora Chapter 11: Self-Regulated Learning Habits -
Daisy Lemus, Mary-Pat Stein, and Whitney Scott Chapter 12: Encouraging
Students to Be Thoughtful about Their Learning - Bettina J. Huber Part V:
Conclusions and Recommendations Chapter 13: What Did You Learn? What Are
You Gonna Do About It? Appendix 1. Participants in the Learning Habits
Seminar Appendix 2. Master List of Questions Posed During Face-to-Face
Learning Habits Interviews Appendix 3. Questions Posed at Project
Registration and in All End-of-Term Assignments