Striving for Excellence in College: Tips for Active Learning

Striving for Excellence in College does what no other learning skills book does: it treats academic excellence as attainable by most students and trusts students' capacity to be better learners than is ordinarily assumed possible. This text merges critical thinking and active learning in an understandable partnership and includes over fifty tips that previously only the best students knew. Learning requires more than skills - the student's emotional makeup and the class environment are at least as important for learning excellence. Browne and Keeley, authors of Asking the Right Questions, bring their unusually readable writing style to this text that will help students become more active learners and better critical thinkers.

This book provides a practical, direct approach to teaching readers to become more effective learners by providing useful, immediate tips that can be employed every day in almost every learning situation. It also provides a model of what it means to take our minds seriously. Striving for Excellence in College provides practical tips for effective learning that can be used in every day situations. It stresses autonomy by emphasizing what each learner can do to help his or her own mind. And, it integrates critical thinking and practical learning consistent with a goal of making each reader a life-long learner. This book is useful for every situation where more effective learning is essential and will benefit the reader, from business to academic lectures.