Motivation and Learning Strategies for College Success: A Self-Management Approach - Softcover

Dembo, Myron H.; Seli, Helena

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0805862307 ISBN 13: 9780805862300

Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum, 2007

Synopsis

This popular text combines theory, research, and applications to teach college students how to become more self-directed learners. Study skills are treated as a serious academic course. Students learn about human motivation and learning as they improve their study skills. The text does not offer recipes for success or lists of quick tips. The focus is on relevant information and features designed to help students to identify the components of academic learning that contribute to high achievement, to master and practice effective learning and study strategies, and then to complete self-management studies whereby they are taught a process for improving their academic behavior. A framework organized around six components related to academic success (motivation, methods of learning, time management, control of the physical and social environment, and monitoring performance) makes it easy for students to understand what they need to do to become more successful in the classroom.
New in the Third Edition:
*Discussion of achievement motivation via four motivational student profiles
*Expanded treatment of sociocultural factors
*New material on student identity issues
*Extended discussion of the rational emotive approach to changing one's emotions and using physical relaxation techniques
*Attention to use of time based on categorizing tasks into urgent and important
*New coverage of social loafing and I-messages
*Additional new exercises and follow-up activities.
A separate Instructor's Manual provides helpful information for teaching the material, including additional exercises and experiences for students, essay test questions, information on how students can maintain a portfolio to demonstrate their acquisition of learning and study skills, and guidelines for helping students complete a self-management study of their own behavior.

About this title

About the Author

Myron H. Dembo is the Stephen Crocker Professor of Education in the Rossier School of Education at the University of Southern California. He is a fellow in the American Psychological Association and an associate editor of the Elementary School Journal. Dembo specializes in the areas of learning and motivation with a focus on teaching students how to become more self-regulated learners. He has written three books and over 75 research articles on the teaching-learning process. His educational psychology textbook, Applying Educational Psychology, is now in its 5th edition. Dembo also conducts workshops for middle and high school students on learning and study skills, as well as professional educational programs for teachers and administrators on the same topic.

Review

“I like the fact that this book doesn’t talk down to students. Students have a better attitude about taking a learning strategies course when they study both research and application.”
—Joan Iva Cube
Whittier College, Center for Academic Success

“I teach a course on self-regulation and this book is the best available in the area. My students like the observational and follow-up activities.”
—Fred Bail
University of Hawaii

“This text is gaining popularity with students at our university. We would not consider using any other text in our course because it is based on research. Students feel that they are taking an academic course rather than a remedial course.”
—Elaine Wright
University of Southern Maine

About this edition

• Publisher: Lawrence Erlbaum
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 0805862307
• ISBN 13: 9780805862300
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 112