Foundations for Learning: Claiming Your Education, 3rd Edition

By Laurie L. Hazard, Jean-Paul Nadeau

Published by Prentice Hall

Published Date: Feb 20, 2011

Description

This book is appropriate for courses in First-Year Experience, College Success, and Study Skills. The focus of Foundations for Learning is on academic adjustment with personal development issues seamlessly integrated into the academic emphasis theme of 'claiming an education' and taking responsibility for one's own education.

Foundations for Learning addresses both the attitudinal variables and personality traits that affect college achievement like locus of control, conceptions of intelligence, and intellectual curiosity in relation to specific study-related behaviors such as text annotation and active listening. At its core, this text is based on the psychology of adjustment. Students are pushed to consider how each mindset, skill set, perception, and attitude connects with and influences the other. It offers an acute awareness of first-year student needs, an intellectual approach, and a tight framework. It is primarily focused on the development of academic adjustment issues and metacognitive strategies as they naturally unfold during the first semester, as opposed to primarily focusing on social adjustment issues or issues that aren’t immediately relevant such as career development and is written in a challenging yet accessible way. This revision covers emerging technologies, broadens its audience, and more.

Brief Contents

Introduction

PART I: Adjusting to the Environment of Higher Education and Understanding Yourself as a College Student

Chapter One Becoming Part of a Scholarly Community

Chapter Two Developing Academic Self-Concept

Chapter Three Reconceiving Diversity

Part II: Reflecting On How Mindset Influences Your Study Behaviors and Reaching Your Academic Goals

Chapter Four Planning, Prioritizing, and Procrastination

Chapter Five Developing Malleable Mindsets and Metacognitive Skills

Part III: Implementing Strategies and Habits for Peak Academic Performance

Chapter Six Developing Communication Skills

Chapter Seven Reading and Taking Notes for Optimal Performance in Lectures and on Exams

Chapter Eight Taking Responsibility in College and Life

Glossary

Index

Full Contents

Introduction

PART I: Adjusting to the Environment of Higher Education and Understanding Yourself as a College Student

Chapter One Becoming Part of a Scholarly Community

The Professor and Student Contract

Intellectual Curiosity

Active versus Passive Learning

Collaboration

Doing Research

Plagiarism and Intellectual Property

Claimining an Education

Chapter Two Developing Academic Self-Concept

Relating to Your Family and Culture: How Developing Academic Self-Concept Has been Developing Up to Now

Relating to Your New Peers

Relating in Cyberspace

Relating to your New Environment

Chapter Three Reconceiving Diversity

Diversity in College

The Difficulty of Defining Diversity

Define Diversity

The Downside of Difference

Delving into Diversity

Part II: Reflecting On How Mindset Influences Your Study Behaviors and Reaching Your Academic Goals

Chapter Four Planning, Prioritizing, and Procrastination

Time Management and Academic Goal Setting

Time Management and College Success

Self-Regulating Your Own Learning

Consider the 8-8-8 Formula

How to Manage Your Time

Be Sure to Plan and Organize

Plan for a suitable Place to Study

Learn to Avoid Procrasitination

Behavior Management, Motivation, and Procrastination

Procrastiantion and Motivation

Procrastination has Consequences

Gaining Control over Procrastination

Chapter Five Developing Malleable Mindsets and Metacognitive Skills

Why Should I Change?

Student Attituted Toward Learning

What is your Locus of Control?

Measure Your Locus of Control with the Trice Academic Locus of Control Scale

The Relationship Amoung Locus of Control, Study Habits, and Grade Point Average

Theories of Intelligence

Dweck's Mindset Theory

Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences

Goleman's Theory of Emotional Intelligence

Approaches to Learning

The Process of Leaning Changes Your Brain

        Thinking Critically

        Identify Your Learning Style(s)

        Writing to Learn and Journal Writing Can Help you Better Understand How You Learn

        Portfolio Development Is Another Useful Metacognitive Activity

        Read Actively to Become a Better Reader

        Text Annotation Encourages Active Reading

Part III: Implementing Strategies and Habits for Peak Academic Performance

Chapter Six Developing Communication Skills

Written Products versus the Writing Process

Prewrite to generate Ideas

Organize Your Ideas

Draft Your Ideas

Revise Each Draft

Using Feedback to best Advantage

Your Faculty Provide Feedback via Graded Papers

        Faculty Can Also Provide Feedback During Office Hours

        Your Classmates May Provide Feedback During Peer Review

        The Writing Center Is Another Great Place to Get Feedback

Participating in Class Discussing

Writing the Research Paper

Formulate a Reseach Question

        Find Appropriate and Useful Sources

        Evaluate your Sources

        Selects Potential Material from your Sources

        Utilize the Evidence You Have ollected to Your Best Advantage

        Conduct Your Research Ethically

        The Function of Citation Formats

Making In-Class Presentations

Chapter Seven Reading and Taking Notes for Optimal Performance in Lectures and on Exams

The Components of Test Preparation

Be Aware of Course Objectives

        Take Comprehensive Notes

        Connect Important Ideas

        Gather Internal Feedback

        Approaches to Note Taking

        It Is Important to Have an Organized System of Taking Notes

        Use Shorthand When Taking Notes

        Coordinate Yoru Class/Lecture Notes with Your Reading Notes

        The Read Actively, Take Notes Before You Read

        Study with a Group

Benefits of Employing These Approaches to Studying

Approaches to Test Taking

Here is Some Advice for Taking Multiple-Choice Exams

Here is Some Advice for Responding to True-False QUestions

In-Class Essay Exams Don't Have to Be So Daunting

Self-Evaulation ofPreparedness for Test and Exams

Chapter Eight Taking Responsibility in College and Life

Foundations for Learning Themes: Developing the Habits of Mind for Success in College and Life

Glossary

Index

This title is also sold in the various packages listed below. Before purchasing one of these packages, speak with your professor about which one will help you be successful in your course.

Package ISBN-13: 9780132958295