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Help students get the most out of their time in college. Understanding Your College Experience addresses the needs of the widest possible range of students through its content coverage and organization, activities, assessment, and design. Using a research-driven approach informed by deca...

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Understanding Your College Experience by John N. Gardner; Betsy O. Barefoot; Kimberly A. Koledoye - Third Edition, 2020 from Macmillan Student Store

Because every student counts.

Help students get the most out of their time in college. Understanding Your College Experience addresses the needs of the widest possible range of students through its content coverage and organization, activities, assessment, and design. Using a research-driven approach informed by decades of information on the first year experience, the author team provides students who need the most support with the practical help necessary to flourish in college, in life, and in their chosen career.

New! Achieve courseware for Understanding Your College Experience sets the standard for driving student learning in your college success  course with powerful learning content, engaging activities, and actionable insights and analytics. Achieve brings together an interactive e-textbook, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and other assessments and activities, plus extensive instructor resources–all within a new, enhanced technology platform carefully built over the past five years. In order to support students’ self-regulated learning and success, Achieve includes Goal-setting and Reflection Surveys. This series of quick, actionable pre-built surveys is designed to get students to set goals for themselves and reflect on their learning throughout the semester

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  • The latest research on the First Year Experience. Combining the practical experience of the authors’ extensive careers teaching and directing this course with decades of research, this book contains the latest information available on the First Year Experience.

  • A book tailor-made for students who need the most support. Content easily engages linear readers with the following features:
    • Language and a reading level appropriate for first-year students, with helpful reading strategies throughout.
    • Concise chapters that focus solely on the essential topics for college success. All figures, tables, and data reflect the reality of facing today’s busy, diverse student body.
    • Coverage of campus involvement that emphasizes the increased student retention linked with joining extracurricular activities and study groups and encourages students to consider such activities when planning their schedules.
    • A clean design that helps students understand key concepts. Systematic headings and color-coding guide students through each chapter. Figures and charts appear in close proximity to the related text so students can make visual connections, and are placed to ease reading flow.

  • Organization and coverage that will work for your students—and your classes. The book’s 12 streamlined chapters make it easy to cover in a single term all topics typically taught in the first-year course.

  • Models—including digital models—that let students see principles in action. Realistic examples of time management schedules, textbook annotation, note-taking, and other strategies for academic success allow students to learn by example.

  • Carefully crafted learning tools, such as Tech Tips, that keep students engaged. Tech Tips ask students to apply the technology expertise they likely already have in an academic setting. These tools help students develop skills such as collaboration, critical thinking, and organization.

Available with the ACES student self-assessment. Instructors can add ACES (Academic and Career Excellence System), a powerful, norm-referenced student self-assessment that helps pinpoint strengths and short-comings for students, while providing instructors and administrations with the necessary data to help impact student success, retention, and completion. ACES is available standalone or to package with the text.

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New! Achieve courseware for Understanding Your College Experience sets the standard for driving student learning in your college success  course with powerful learning content, engaging activities, and actionable insights and analytics. Achieve brings together an interactive e-textbook, LearningCurve adaptive quizzing and other assessments and activities, plus extensive instructor resources–all within a new, enhanced technology platform carefully built over the past five years. In order to support students’ self-regulated learning and success, Achieve includes Goal-setting and Reflection Surveys. This series of quick, actionable pre-built surveys is designed to get students to set goals for themselves and reflect on their learning throughout the semester.

  • An increased emphasis on career development and accessing career opportunities. This third edition empowers students to access the information and resources they’ll need to make their college experience fulfilling and meaningful, make good choices, and set themselves on a successful career path.
    • Chapter 1 now spotlights career coverage right up front, including a discussion of career pathways and a subsection on how self-understanding enables career exploration.
    • Each chapter includes a new "Develop Your Career Story" activity, which empowers students to develop their professional selves and access career opportunities. These activities help to scaffold the often-difficult tasks students are asked to do when writing resumes or going on interviews, such as reporting on their strengths or weaknesses, summarizing their skills and interests, or describing a time they overcame adversity. Each activity provides students with a key building block to their professional portfolio, so that by the end of Chapter 12, students will have worked toward developing the confidence and skills to get the most out of their career center resources, land an internship, and pursue a successful career.

  • A fully redesigned opener that begins each chapter. Openers touch on each of the three main areas that are important to students—college, life, and career—and spotlight concrete ways that upcoming material is relevant and useful. Each opener features:
    • A colorful, full-page photo
    • An "In this chapter…" section that highlights chapter coverage and includes reflection questions to help students connect with the chapter topics
    • Interesting statistics on both academics and the workplace, as well as an inspirational quote about life, perseverance, and the human experience.

  • New Midterm Check-In feature. This new feature, which is located immediately after Chapter 6 (roughly in the middle of the term), is designed to help students stay on track and recognize the necessary interventions they may need to take to finish the term successfully. On the first page of the feature, students receive tips to help them finish strong, and on the second page, they complete specific activities based on these tips to set themselves up for success.
  • Key content updates keep this edition current, engaging, and relatable for students. Specific updates include the following:
    • A reorganized section on time-management techniques in Chapter 3, plus new coverage of locus of control, the importance of attending college now rather than later, and an expanded discussion of working versus borrowing.
    • A revised and expanded "Become Engaged in Learning" section in Chapter 5 that includes a new assessment asking students to reflect on their level of engagement in learning.
    • An expanded section on previewing in Chapter 6, which includes a new Table 6.1 that helps students estimate how long their reading will take.
    • A new discrete subsection in Chapter 8 on how to reduce the likelihood of problems with academic honesty.
    • A retitled Chapter 9 (now "Developing Information Literacy and Communication Skills") that better emphasizes the two main topics being addressed in the chapter.
    • New illustrative photos and earlier examples of how students use critical thinking in their everyday lives in Chapter 10, which help to demystify an otherwise abstract concept.
    • New wellness coverage in Chapter 11 on prescription drugs, vaping, and anxiety; and new and updated diversity coverage on nationality and citizenship, sex and gender, and microaggressions.

Updated sections in Chapter 12 on the characteristics of today’s economy, developing the right mindset, planning for your career, and marketability

"I really like the broad range of topics covered here, including the study skills, the career planning, and the topics surrounding motivation and emotional intelligence. I've taught success classes for thirty years and every topic I like to address is included here.

—Melanie C. Martel, NHTI, Concord’s Community College

"The book is well written and can be easily understood by students of differing academic levels. The content is current and relevant."

—Pamela Bilton Beard, Houston Community College

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Third Edition| 2020

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Table of Contents

Part One: WELCOME TO YOUR COLLEGE EXPERIENCE


1: The Essentials for College Success 

The College Experience 

Exploring Purpose and Setting Goals 

Self-Exploration and Career Planning

Academic Planning 

Making the Transition by Connecting with Others 


2: Cultivating Motivation, Resilience, and Emotional Intelligence 

The Importance of Motivation, Attitude, and Mindset 

Resilience and Grit 

Understanding Emotional Intelligence 


3: Managing Time, Energy, and Money 

Managing Your Time 

Managing Your Energy  

Managing Your Money 


4: Discovering How You Learn 

How People Learn 

The VARK Inventory 

The Myers−Briggs Type Indicator 

Multiple Intelligences 

When Learning Preferences and Teaching Methods Conflict 

Learning with a Learning Disability or Challenge 


Part Two: SUCCEEDING IN COLLEGE


5: Getting the Most Out of Class 

Become Engaged in Learning 

Prepare for Class 

Participate in Class 

Take Effective Notes 


6: Reading to Learn from College Textbooks 

A Plan for Active Reading  

Strategies for Reading Different Kinds of Textbooks 

Improving Your Reading 


Midterm Check In

Introduction

Mid-Term Check In Audit


7: Studying, Understanding, and Remembering 

Studying in College: Making Choices and Concentrating  

How Memory Works 

Improving Your Memory 

Studying to Understand and Remember 


8: Taking Tests Successfully 

Getting Ready . . .  

Taking the Test 

Types of Tests  

Types of Questions  

Test Anxiety 

Academic Honesty and Misconduct


9: Developing Information Literacy and Communication Skills

Information Literacy  

Choosing, Narrowing, and Researching a Topic 

Using the Library 

Evaluating Sources 

Using Your Research in Writing 

The Writing Process  

Using Your Research in Presentations 


Part Three: YOUR PATH TO SUCCESS IN COLLEGE AND BEYOND


10: Thinking in College 

College-Level Thinking 

Developing Strong Thinking Skills  

Applying Your Critical-Thinking Skills 

Bloom’s Taxonomy and the First Year of College 


11: Maintaining Wellness and Relationships in a Diverse World 

Understanding Wellness  

Managing Your Relationships  

Thriving in Diverse Environments 


12: Making the Right Career Choice 

Careers and the New Economy  

Planning for Your Career 

Getting Experience  

Job Search Strategies 

Skills Employers Seek 

Staying on the Path to Success  

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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.


Kimberly A. Koledoye

Kimberly A. Koledoye is a professor of academic student success and serves as the academic student success program coordinator for the Houston Community College system. Additionally, she teaches developmental and credit-level English. Her work has made a tremendous impact not only on the institution but also statewide, as a leader of development teams for first-year-experience courses and developmental English redesigns. She holds a bachelor of arts in English, a master’s degree in education administration, a graduate certificate in rhetoric and composition, and a doctorate in higher education leadership.

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