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Learning from the Learners: Successful College Students Share Their Effective Learning Habits is based on what "expert" students tell us about what they - as learners - do to succeed. Themes include student success, academic challenges, diversity, pedagogy, and technology in the classroom.
List of contents
Foreword - Harrold Hellenbrand
Part I: Project Parameters
Chapter 1: The Evolution of the Learning Habits Project: Methods and Procedures - Bettina J. Huber
Chapter 2: Who Are the Learning Habits Students and Why Do They Persist? - Bettina J. Huber
Part II: Differing Patterns of Engagement within Major Student Subgroups
Introduction
Chapter 3: Being the First To Go to College - Steven Graves
Chapter 4: The Role of Gender in Fostering Persistence and Effective Learning Habits - Bettina J. Huber
Chapter 5: Campus Diversity and College Learning Through the Eyes of Learning Habits Students - Bettina J. Huber
Part III: Key Themes in Teaching and Learning
Introduction
Chapter 6: Reading with Understanding: What Do College Students Say? - Elizabeth Berry and Linda S. Bowen
Chapter 7: Gains in Written Communication between the Freshman and Junior Years - Irene L. Clark and Bettina J. Huber
Chapter 8: PowerPoint Fatigue and the Rabbit Hole of Internet Stuff: Students and Technology - Donal O'Sullivan
Chapter 9: Sliding Into Learning: The Power of Webnotes - Carrie Rothstein-Fisch and Sharon M. Klein
Part IV: Fostering Student Initiative
Introduction
Chapter 10: Factors Influencing Academic Help Seeking by College Students - Mark Stevens and Peter Mora
Chapter 11: Self-Regulated Learning Habits - Daisy Lemus, Mary-Pat Stein, and Whitney Scott
Chapter 12: Encouraging Students to Be Thoughtful about Their Learning - Bettina J. Huber
Part V: Conclusions and Recommendations
Chapter 13: What Did You Learn? What Are You Gonna Do About It?
Appendix 1. Participants in the Learning Habits Seminar
Appendix 2. Master List of Questions Posed During Face-to-Face Learning Habits Interviews
Appendix 3. Questions Posed at Project Registration and in All End-of-Term Assignments
About the author
Elizabeth Berry is professor emerita at California State University, Northridge (CSUN). She initiated and was director of the Center for Teaching and Learning, the faculty pedagogy support center at CSUN. She has served as codirector of the Learning Habits Project since 2007.
Bettina J. Huber was CSUN's director of Institutional Research (IR) until her retirement in 2017. She was also codirector of the Learning Habits Project from 2007 until 2017.
Cynthia Z. Rawitch is professor and administrator emerita at CSUN. Prior to coming to CSUN as a part-time instructor in 1972, she was a reporter and editor at the Associated Press in Los Angeles and "professor-in-residence" for the Los Angeles Times' Minority Editorial Training Program (METPRO).
Summary
Learning from the Learners: Successful College Students Share Their Effective Learning Habits is based on what "expert" students tell us about what they - as learners - do to succeed. Themes include student success, academic challenges, diversity, pedagogy, and technology in the classroom.
