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Your College Experience Concise

Twelfth Edition ©2017 John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot

This less expensive, streamlined edition of Your College Experience presents a straightforward, realistic, and intelligent review of the skills students need to succeed in college. The text focuses on the academic skills taught in college success courses while additional coverage of emotional...
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College Success, streamlined

This less expensive, streamlined edition of Your College Experience presents a straightforward, realistic, and intelligent review of the skills students need to succeed in college. The text focuses on the academic skills taught in college success courses while additional coverage of emotional intelligence, learning styles, diversity, and money help students get off to a great start.

While maintaining its hallmark theme of goal setting, the new edition focuses on practical strategies across all topics of the book to help students be successful from the start. Chapters on Time Management and Communication & Information Literacy have been expanded and updated to incorporate the tools and strategies students use on campus right now. And each new copy of the text can be packaged free with LearningCurve, a new adaptive, online assessment tool.

A full package of instructional support materials—Instructor's Annotated Edition, Instructor's Manual, PowerPoint slides, videos, and Test Bank—provides new and experienced instructors all the tools they will need to engage students and increase student retention.

Features

The latest research on the First-Year Experience. This book represents not only the practical experience of the authors' extensive careers teaching and directing this course, but also the culmination of decades of research, disseminated through two national higher education centers which they have founded and directed. Citations throughout this edition have been updated to reflect the very latest research on the first-year experience.

A focus on self-assessment of strengths and goal setting. This hallmark feature helps students focus on purpose and motivation, and combats disengagement in this course. A section on goal setting in Chapter 1 gets students planning early. Assessing Your Strengths and Setting Goals boxes in each chapter ask students to set goals and Stay on Track exercises at the end of each chapter ask students to assess how to apply strengths to current and future academic work.　

Practical tools to use in college and in life. Your College Experience, Concise gives students more tools than any other concise book of its kind for understanding themselves, making decisions, and planning for the future: self-assessments for learning styles and multiple intelligences, formulas for calculating caffeine intake, planners for weekly to-do lists and career development, and more.　

Models that let students see principles in action. Because many students learn best by example, full-size models—more than in any competing book—show realistic examples of annotating a textbook, creating a mind map, multiple styles of taking notes, and other strategies for academic success. This edition includes models from digital source to reflect the tools students will be using in their everyday lives.

Critical thinking questions and exercises in every chapter. Features, photos, and exercises include activities to help students master concepts and think critically about the material.　

New to This Edition

Reimagined LaunchPad course space supports teaching and learning more effectively. LaunchPad Solo for College Success is a powerful online course space that integrates seamlessly with most learning management systems. Available standalone or packaged at a significant discount, it combines high-quality multimedia content and ready-made assessment; a trove of videos; LearningCurve, an adaptive, game-like study system; and more. Our gradebook offers a window into your students' performance, a streamlined interface helps students focus on what’s due next, and social commenting tools let them engage and connect.

New emphasis on ten High-Impact Practices. Developed by the American Association of Colleges and Universities, the 10 High-Impact Educational Practices have been shown to be beneficial for college students from many backgrounds, and include such approaches as collaboration, writing-intensive courses, undergraduate research, diversity, service learning, internships, and more. As a hallmark feature of this new edition, High-Impact Practices are integrated throughout. The practices are presented in Chapter 1, included in the objectives for each subsequent chapter, and highlighted dozens of times in coverage, figures, and activities throughout the text.

Expanded chapters on Emotional Intelligence and Thinking Critically. Key new coverage areas include more on connecting with other and a stronger approach to problem solving in the chapter on thinking critically.

Expanded examples from across the curriculum. The text now includes more concrete scenarios, pages, exercises, and problems from STEM, humanities, and social science courses. Located throughout the study skills chapters in Part 2, these examples help make advice on reading, studying, taking tests, and presenting information even more interesting and useful for students.

More support for students at 4-Year institutions including a focus on the wide and diverse range of today’s students. Special coverage areas include more on choosing a major, getting connected to campus life, choosing a career, and researching job opportunities.

A fresh design. The eye-catching design will help capture student interest and engage them in the reading, helping them to master the key concepts.

LaunchPad Solo for ACES (The Academic and Career Excellence System) is an instrument developed to measure student strengths in 12 critical areas, both cognitive and non-cognitive. The ACES instrument prompts students to reflect on their habits, behaviors, attitudes, and skills. Norm-referenced reports indicate whether students are at a high, moderate, or low skill level in particular areas, as compared to students in other colleges and universities across the country. It is available standalone or as part of a package at a low cost.

“This is a solid resource that focuses on key topics for the first-year student. It gives a lot of practical suggestions in a clear /informative format. I would strongly recommend this as a springboard for designing your first-year seminar.”
Margaret Garroway; English/World Languages, Howard Community College

“This concise text does a very good job of focusing on the academic skills we want our students to learn. The text provides a good foundation for our students in critical thinking, study and test-taking skills and time management. It also provides the students with other helpful information to help them succeed. A few examples are learning styles, emotional intelligence, diversity and money management.”
Donna Musselman; Student Development Instruction, Santa Fe College

“Great layout with lots of useable material. Excellent thought-provoking prompts and content.”
Christine Benson; Academic Advising & First-Year Experience, Madonna University

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Table of Contents

Part I Foundations
1. Welcome to Your College Experience
2. Time Management
3. Emotional Intelligence
4. How You Learn

Part II Preparing to Learn
5. Thinking in College
6. Reading to Learn
7. Getting the Most Out of Class
8. Studying
9. Test Taking
10. Information Literacy and Communication

Part III Preparing for Life
11. Diversity
12. Money

John N. Gardner

John N. Gardner brings unparalleled experience to students as an author. The recipient of his institution's highest award for teaching excellence, John has over forty years of experience directing and teaching in the most widely emulated first-year seminar in the country, the University 101 course at the University of South Carolina (USC), Columbia. John is universally recognized as one of the country's leading educators for his role in initiating and orchestrating an international reform movement to improve the beginning college experience, a concept he coined as "the first-year experience." He is the founding executive director of the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition at USC, as well as the Policy Center on the First Year of College and the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education (www.jngi.org), both based in Brevard, N.C.

Betsy O. Barefoot

Betsy O. Barefoot is a writer, researcher, and teacher whose special area of scholarship is the first-year seminar. During her tenure at USC from 1988 to 1999, she served as co-director for research and publications at the National Resource Center for The First-Year Experience and Students in Transition. She also taught University 101 and graduate courses on the first-year experience and the principles of college teaching. She conducts first-year seminar faculty training workshops around the world and is frequently called on to evaluate first-year seminar outcomes. Betsy is co-director and senior scholar in the Policy Center on the First Year of College and Vice President of the John N. Gardner Institute for Excellence in Undergraduate Education both in Brevard, N.C. In her Policy Center role she led a major national research project to identify institutions of excellence in the first college year. She currently works with both two- and four-year campuses in evaluating all components of the first year.

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