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Learning and Motivation Strategies: Your Guide to Success, 2/E
Bruce W. Tuckman, The Ohio State University
Dennis A. Abry, Blue Ridge Community College
Dennis R. Smith, The Ohio State University

ISBN-10: 0131712020
ISBN-13: 9780131712027

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2008
Format: Paper; 312 pp
Published: 05/03/2007

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For any course that covers study skills, study strategies, or college success strategies.

 

Written and designed to enhance students' independent learning and academic performance, this innovative hands-on text uses a consistent set of psychological principles as the basis for teaching students how to learn and motivate themselves. It features a highly user-friendly style and an open, nontraditional look and approach that lends itself easily to independent study. Four major strategies and eight substrategies are used throughout the book as unifying themes in exploring the various keys to achievement.  Updates include (1) new topics on critical thinking, resilience, and diversity, (2) more techniques for reducing procrastination, increasing responsibility, learning from lectures and text, overcoming test anxiety, and choosing careers, and (3) updating and improving its extensive list of interactive activities, including a software package to accompany the book that will enable users to complete all the interactive activities and end-of-module quizzes online and submit them electronically to their instructors for grading and feedback.

  • Active student participation–Incorporates self-surveys, quick practices, applications, assignments, self-assessments, and portfolios. (Available in the text and on the Companion Website)

    • Gives students hands-on practice in applying the strategies to real-life experiences.

  • Modular format with major motivational strategies–Condusive to using online.
  • A contemporary look–Makes extensive use of icons, clip art, relevant examples, a serialized allegory (called “The Quest”), conversational writing style, forms and charts, and open space. Emphasizes graphics and images in both delivery and content (i.e., is more right-brain oriented).

    • Offers an exceptionally user-friendly format and style that is completely in sync with today's students' learning styles.

  • Classroom developed and tested–Content has been used by students in all stages of its development and reflects their input and reactions. Initial evaluations show a significant improvement in grades during the term when the course, built around the book, is taken. Content has been used to teach a classroom version of the course, a web version, and a hybrid version.

    • Ensures that both instructors and students will have success in using the text.

  • Theory- and research-based–The theoretical base comes from educational psychology, and gives rise to the four strategies and eight substrategies that are used throughout the book as the keys to achievement.
Integrating/unifying themes
  • Four major strategies; eight substrategies–All content is organized around a set of four major strategies (that have been proven to increase achievement-oriented behavior), and their component substrategies. STACH acronym unifies the theme.

    • Helps students to understand how to apply the concepts.

  • Major strategy #1: Take Reasonable Risk –The empowering strategy. Substrategies #1-2: set goals that are challenging but attainable (GO FOR GOAL); break tasks down into small, manageable steps (BITE SIZE PIECES).

    • Gives students step by step help in achieving specific goals.

  • Major strategy #2: Take Responsibility for Your Outcomes –The belief strategy. Substrategies #3-4: believe in your own effort and capability (THINK POSITIVE); build a plan (PLAN!).

    • Help students overcome possible barriers to success.

  • Major strategy #3: Search the Environment –The action strategy. Substrategies #5-6: ask questions (JUST ASK); build models (VISUALIZE IT).

    • Offers students ways to use their resources.

  • Major strategy #4: Use Feedback –The reaction strategy. Substrategies #7-8: monitor your actions (KEEP TRACK); give yourself instructions (TELL YOURSELF).

    • Ensures students stay on track with their initial goals.

NEW!  Broadened area of coverage to new topics. (Ex. pg. 155, 222).

  • Integrating new sections on critical thinking, resilience, and diversity into existing modules.

NEW!  Expanded coverage of techniques critical to academic success. (Ex. pg. 41-45).

  • Reducing procrastination, increasing responsibility, learning from lectures and text, overcoming test anxiety, and choosing careers.

NEW!  Updated and improved its extensive list of interactive activities, based on feedback from students and the results of their actual performance. (Ex. pg. 179, 181, 183, 184).

  • These well-developed and extensively tested activities ensure they are meaningful assessments for students and their instructors. Continuous evaluations conducted by the author team every term since the book’s inception show a significantly greater  improvement in grades by course takers than matched non-takers during the term when the course, built around the book, is taken.

NEW!  Active Student Participation (learning by doing).  The book incorporates a “teaching for learning’ design by incorporating many components that provide for active discovery and participation by students.  (Ex. pg. 186, 188, 189, 192, 194, 199).

  • These components are self-surveys, quick practices, applications, assignments, self-assessments, and portfolios.  An accompanying Instructor’s Manual provides directions for using all of these features, providing feedback, carrying out lessons, and testing for content mastery.
  • Many textbooks, indeed the majority, include content with some interactive material at the end of each chapter. This textbook includes a variety of interactive materials throughout, as a way of both breaking up the density of the instructional material and providing students with an opportunity to apply the content in smaller pieces.

NEWLY REVISED!  Unifying theme as a basis for instructional content.  All content is organized around a set of four major strategies (that have been proven to increase achievement-oriented behavior), and their component substrategies.  (Ex. pg. iii).

  • These strategies and sub-strategies, listed below are based on principles and theories of educational psychology for which considerable evidence exists.  The four strategies are: Take Reasonable Risk, Take Responsibility for Your Outcomes, Search the Environment or Information, and Use Feedback. 

NEWLY REVISED!  A contemporary look.

  • Extensive use of visuals, relevant examples, a serialized allegory (called “The Quest”), conversational writing style, forms and charts, and open space.  Emphasizes graphics and images in both delivery and content (i.e., is more right-brained oriented). Easy to read (it is being used in high schools and middle schools).

NEW!  Classroom developed and tested, this book has been written and designed to enhance students’ engagement and independent learning.  Content has been used by students in all stages of its development and reflects their input and reactions. 

  • Evaluations comparing course takers and matched controls consistently show a significant greater improvement in grades among course takers than controls during the term when the course is taken and the term that follows. 
  • It also improves retention in college. Content has been used to teach a classroom version of the course, a web version, and a blended version

NEWLY REVISED!  Theory-and research-based.  The theoretical base comes from educational psychology, and gives rise to the four strategies and eight sub-strategies that are used throughout the book as the keys to achievement.

  • These strategies and sub-strategies help students learn how to overcome procrastination, develop self-confidence, take responsibility, build resilience, learn from lectures and text, prepare for exams, write papers that reflect critical thinking, build relationships, and prepare for their futures. 

 

Module 1: Learning and Motivation Strategies for Achievement.

Module 2: The Keys to Achievement.

Module 3: Procrastination: The Thief of Time.

Module 4: Believing in Yourself: Self-Confidence.

Module 5: Taking Responsibility: It's Up to You.

Module 6: Active Listening.

Module 7. Active Reading.

Module 8: Preparing for Exams.

Module 9: Using Critical Thinking to Prepare Papers and Speeches.

Module 10. Resilience: Managing Your Life in School.

Module 11: Building Relationships That Work and Embracing Diversity.

Module 12: Preparing for Your Future.

Appendix.

Assignment 1.2 Class Schedule worksheet    

Assignment 3.4 “How I Spent My Time This Week” worksheet    

Assignment 4.2 Mood Thermometers: How I Feel Right Now (2 copies)    

Assignment 5.4 “No Looking Back”    

Quickpractice 7.2, 7.3 “Understanding the Allure of the Internet”    

Assignment 7.1 “Race and the Schooling of Black Americans”    

Quickpractice 7.4; Assignment 7.2 Biology textbook pages    

Quickpractice 7.5; Assignment 7.3 Math textbook pages 

Portfolio 7: Text Document   

Assignment 8.3; Assignment 8.5 “Planet Prejudice”    

Assignment 8.4 “Gordon Parks”    


Index.

“This text does an incredible job of including examples that fit within the context of each module... I really like QUEST and read every one of the episodes!  The book is extremely comprehensive, and with the new addition of a module on critical thinking, it will be even more complete.”

-- Elizabeth H. Hardaway, University of Georgia

 

Written and designed to enhance students’ complex thinking skills and independent learning strategies, this innovative hands-on text uses a consistent set of psychological principles as the basis for teaching students how to learn and motivate themselves.  Its' user-friendly style and open approach make it easily accessible in a classroom, lab, or independent study. Organized around four major strategies proven to increase academic success the text helps develop students' achievement-oriented behavior:

 

            Strategy #1       Take Reasonable Risks: Achieve Goals through manageable steps

            Strategy #2       Take Responsibility: Think positively and plan

            Strategy #3       Search the Environment: Ask questions and visualize possibilities

            Strategy #4       Use Feedback: Monitor your progress and adapt your strategies

 

Features include:

NEW!  New topics.

·         Integrated sections on critical thinking, resilience, and diversity.

NEW!  Expanded coverage of techniques critical to academic success.

·         Includes reducing procrastination, increasing responsibility, learning from lectures and text, overcoming test anxiety, and choosing a career.

NEW!  Updated and extensive list of interactive activities.

·         Based on feedback from students and the results of their actual performance

·         Well-developed Companion Website will enable users to complete all the interactive activities and end-of-module quizzes online and submit them electronically to their instructors for grading and feedback.

 

Students are encouraged to actively participate in quick practices, applications, self-surveys, assignments, self-assessments, and portfolios as a way to improve their skills and hone their strategies. These activities are also located on the accompanying website, thus supporting students to actively engage in their own learning (www.prenhall.com/tuckman).

 

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