College and Career Success - Softcover

Batiste Consulting Llc; Marsha Fralick

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9781792462474: College and Career Success

Synopsis

The 9th edition of College and Career Success features topics on college, career, and lifelong success. This textbook helps students choose a major that matches their interests and personal strengths. The latest research on motivation, mindset, and grit is used to help students persist and complete their education. It provides the basic skills for success in college and throughout life.

College & Career Success:

  • incorporates the latest research on motivation, positive psychology, mindset, and grit to improve the persistence rate of college students.
  • helps students choose a major by assessing their personality types, multiple intelligences, emotional intelligence, interests, skills, and values.
  • contains information on current career trends, career outlook, the career decision making process, educational planning, and using social media for finding employment.
  • has an emphasis on critical thinking, appreciating diversity, and current social issues.
  • includes an online portfolio with career assessment results and links to the O*Net database for career research.
  • translates the latest research in psychology, education, and neuroscience into practical learning strategies for students.
  • emphasizes the need for math success and provides practical strategies for studying math.
  • helps students think positively about the future, clarify what happiness means to them, and work toward attaining happiness in life.
  • has an interactive online edition, College & Career Success Online.

College & Career Success will enhance student learning through:

  • interactive activities that engage students in learning including self-assessments, frequent quizzes, and journal entries.
  • individual and group activities.
  • the accompanying College Success 1 website located at www.collegesuccess1.com contains faculty and student resources including interactive classroom exercises, handouts, video suggestions, PowerPoints, test banks, Word documents for the journal entries, Internet links to supplemental content, and much more

Marsha Fralick and Seth Batiste have also developed a Concise Version for 1- and 2-credit courses. College and Career Success - Concise

 

 

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The interactive version uses the latest technology to include:

  • Interactive exercises with immediate scoring and feedback.
  • Quizzes that are automatically scored. 
  • Career assessments that appear in relevant chapters. The assessments include active links to career research and available job openings through Indeed.com. 
  • Course management integration which enables faculty to view, grade, and provide student feedback online and within the course management system. Quiz grades and faculty graded work are automatically entered the gradebook.
  • Ease of customization. 
  • Direct purchase of access codes to avoid bookstore markups.
  • Online support materials including interactive classroom exercises, handouts, PowerPoint presentations and test banks.
  • Customer Care that provides setup and support for students and faculty. 
  • Data on student success and retention. 

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