College study: the essential ingredients (3rd edition) free download

Overview Order Downloadable Resources Overview. Description A comprehensive set of PowerPoint slides that can be used by instructors for class presentations or by students for lecture preview or review. The presentation includes all the graphs and tables in the textbook.

The presentation contains bullet point PowerPoint slides for each chapter. These slides highlight the important points of each chapter to help students understand the concepts within each chapter. Download Resources. Relevant Courses. Sign In We're sorry! Examples are analyzing academic behaviors and attitudes, critiquing why a strategy does or does not work, predicting and solving academic problems, differentiating types of test questions, and creating or modifying study aids that are most effective and efficient for the individual.

Students receive much-needed practice with higher-level thinking skills. Focus on modeling the essentials of learning. Helps readers apply strategies to course work. Personal Action Statements are specific strategies students choose to implement within a designated time frame. After implementing Personal Action Statements, students will Assess Your Success with the purpose of identifying what techniques do and do not work for them. Through the process of choosing, using, and assessing strategies, students work toward building an effective and efficient study system for themselves.

Pause and Reflect exercises provide opportunities for students to think about and process key ideas. Instructors can have students share reflections as part of a group discussion or activity. Try it out!

Comprehension checks, included at the end of each chapter, provide a reminder and a format for students to check their understanding and recall of key content. Chapter Terms are key vocabulary introduced in the chapter. Readers check their understanding by providing both a meaning and an example for each term. Technology updates are embedded in all chapters.

Readers are exposed to information regarding use of technology in major areas of college learning and study. Also, new comments in Student Voices sections reflect the increasing use of technology in college academics. New icon indicates added sections which are titled Online Course Work.

These sections contain information relating chapter topics to online, hybrid, and other Web-based course work. The content emphasizes strategies to strengthen learning and memory. Plus, an added section on collaborative learning and how to create study groups, based on current research demonstrating the powerful effect of peer-to-peer learning.

Students identify, try out, and assess specific strategies, with the goal of developing multi-modal systems of study. The switch from learning styles to modalities reflects current literature; matching learning styles and strategies appears to have a weak impact on student learning.

The work is protected by local and international copyright laws and is provided solely for the use of instructors in teaching their courses and assessing student learning. You have successfully signed out and will be required to sign back in should you need to download more resources. Sally A. Lipsky, Indiana University of Pennsylvania. If You're an Educator Download instructor resources Additional order info. Overview Order Downloadable Resources Overview.

Description This manual is intended to give professors a framework or blueprint of ideas and suggestions that may assist them in providing their students with activities, journal writing, thought-provoking situations, and group activities. Download Resources.