Welcome to STUDYtactics.com    
  BOOKS eCONTENT SPECIALTY STORES MY STUDYaides MY ACCOUNT  
New & Used Books
 
Product Detail
Product Information   |  Other Product Information

Product Information
Academic Transformation : The Road to College Success
Academic Transformation : The Road to College Success
Author: Sellers, De / Hodges, Russell B. / Dochen, Carol W.
Edition/Copyright: 2005
ISBN: 0-13-048615-9
Publisher: Prentice Hall, Inc.
Type: Paperback
Other Product Information
Summary
Table of Contents
 
  Summary

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

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!

 

New & Used Books -  eContent -  Specialty Stores -  My STUDYaides -  My Account

Terms of Service & Privacy PolicyContact UsHelp © 1995-2024 STUDYtactics, All Rights Reserved