Your College Experience: Strategies for Success (with ThomsonNOW Printed Access Card) - Softcover

Gardner, John N.; Jewler, A. Jerome; Barefoot, Betsy O.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1413018564 ISBN 13: 9781413018561

Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing, 2006

Synopsis

The most thoroughly revised edition yet! Featuring extensive revisions to the Learning chapters and a new chapter on memory, YOUR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE, 7e continues its 20-year tradition of providing straightforward, intelligent coverage of the skills students need to succeed in college today. New co-author Betsy Barefoot has updated and added new research materials throughout, and worked to streamline the text. Now only 16 chapters, the book presents more current information in fewer chapters than ever before. Also new to this edition: iLrn College Success! Available with new copies of the book, this innovative teaching tool lets instructors create assignments that students can use to assess their mastery of topics covered in the book. Assignments are automatically graded, providing instructors and students with immediate feedback on student performance. iLrn gives students the power to prioritize and strategically use their study time, while it gives instructors the power to tailor their in-class time to meet their students' most pressing needs. Author John Gardner is a well-known proponent of the first-year seminar and was instrumental is creating the National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina. He and co-authors Jewler and Barefoot continue to write, research, and travel to support the First-Year Experience.

About this title

About the Author:

John N. Gardner brings unparalleled experience to this writing partnership for American higher education's authoritative text for first-year seminar courses. He is the recipient of his institution's highest award for teaching excellence. He has 25 years of experience directing and teaching in the most respected and widely emulated first-year seminar in the U.S., the University 101 course at the University of South Carolina. Gardner is universally recognized as one of the country's leading higher educators for his role in initiating and orchestrating an international reform movement to improve the beginning college experience, a concept he coined as "the first-year experience." He is the founding executive director of two very influential higher education centers which support campuses in their efforts to improve the learning and retention of beginning college students: the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at the University of South Carolina (www.sc.edu/fye), and the Policy Center on the First Year of College in Brevard, N.C. (www.fyfoundations.org). The experiential basis for all of his work is his own miserable first year of college on academic probation, an experience he hopes to prevent for many of this book's readers.

Review:

"I felt that the text was student friendly, easily accessible to a variety of academic levels and learning styles; pragmatic about the needs of students, interactive...."

"I think the level and tone of the text is fine for our class...It is definitely clearly written and well explained."

"The text is easy to read, and there is a lot of bulleted or numbered information...Good tips and visuals are provided for students about a number of topics. I think the Self-Assessments...are engaging. Students like learning more about themselves."

"I like the many technological supports such as Web Tutor...that go along with the text, as well as the instructor supports, such as the Examview, Instructor’s Manual/Test Bank and the MultiMedia Manager."

About this edition

• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1413018564
• ISBN 13: 9781413018561
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384