Academic Transformation: The Road to College Success
0130486159

De Sellers, Ph.D., Cerridwen, Inc.
Carol W. Dochen, Ph.D., Texas State University, San Marcos
Russell B. Hodges, Ed.D., Texas State University, San Marcos

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2005
Format: Paper; 384 pp

ISBN-10: 0130486159
ISBN-13:9780130486158

Our Price: £16.99
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Description

For courses in Applied Cognitive and Behavioral Psychology (Learning Framework), Study Skills, Student Success, and Freshman Orientation.

Thoroughly grounded in theory and research, this readable and practical text will help students in undergraduate academic success courses build learning strategies to sustain them throughout their college careers. Innovative chapters focus on motivation, overcoming procrastination, and time and stress management. The chapters on learning strategies connect the practical issues of study and academic performance with the most recent work in cognitive theory and practice. The book honors the varied nature of the collegiate experience through narratives of diverse students.

Table Of Contents
(NOTE: Each chapter ends with a Summary, Key Concepts, and Guided Journal Questions.)

 1. The Road to Autonomous Learning: I Don't Know Where I'm Going, But I'm Making Good Time.


 2. Stoking the Motivational Coals: I Know I Can, I Know I Can.


 3. Loading Up on Strategies for Learning Excellence: A Call to Arms!


 4. Learning, Knowledge, and Intellectual Performance: I Think, Ergo I Learn.


 5. Investing in Our College Lives: I'm Trying Not to Overdraft.


 6. Patterns in Human Development: All These People Are Like Me?


 7. Exploring the Diversity of Individuality: I Just Gotta Be Me.


 8. Establishing Direction in Your Life: The Promised Land.


 9. Making Behaviors Work for You: Walking The Academic Tightrope.


10. Appropriate Stress Reduction Techniques: AAUUUGH! I Feel Much Better Now.


11. Neural Development, Attending and Understanding: Growing Dendrites—My, What Nice Frontal Lobes You Have.


12. Storing, Retrieving, and Achieving Maximum Performance: Lights, Camera, Action!
Features
  • New model for academic learning courses titled “Learning Frameworks” introduced.

    • Provide students with the means to understand how self-assessment, self-regulation, and cognitive theories/strategies are interrelated activities that when used together promote success in college.

  • Solid theories for each learning strategy—Clearly articulates how and why learning can be enhanced.

    • Provide students with the structure for and explanation of practical learning, allowing them to understand the reason for engaging in specific academic behaviors and how to adapt to differing circumstances.

  • Self-assessments—Begin each chapter (pg. 46-47). 

    • Enable students to assess their skills and knowledge of the content at the start of the chapter, helping them develop interest in its content and making the material more accessible.

  • Application exercises—Integrates theory and practice through skill-building activities and learning exercises(pg. 28-30; pg. 37-38).

    • Emphasize for students the transfer of skills to other courses.

  • Guided Journal questions—Includes review and discussion questions at the end of each chapter (pg. 190-191).

    • Help students reflect and process the information from a broad perspective.

  • Case studies—Illustrates how differing student populations create different solutions to academic problems (pg. 270-277; pg. 278-282).

    • Allow students to comprehend and apply theories and strategies.

  • End-of-chapter Summaries and Key Terms (pg. 219-221). 

    • Assist students as they review the chapter material.

Student Supplements
Companion Website - Sellers
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© 2005 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Available
ISBN-10: 013048735X | ISBN-13: 9780130487353
Instructor Supplements
Instructor's Manual
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© 2005 | Prentice Hall | Paper;132 pages | This item is ordered on demand which may result in extended delivery times - Instructor only resource
ISBN-10: 0130486167 | ISBN-13: 9780130486165
This robust Instructors Manual also includes a Test Item File.

Companion Website - Sellers
Sellers
© 2005 | Prentice Hall | On-line Supplement | Available
ISBN-10: 013048735X | ISBN-13: 9780130487353