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Keys to College Studying: Becoming an Active Thinker & Prentice Hall Guide to Research Navigation Pkg, 2/E
Carol Carter
Joyce Bishop, Golden West College
Sarah Lyman Kravits
Judy Block

ISBN-10: 0135009405
ISBN-13: 9780135009406

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2007
Format: Kit/Package/ShrinkWrap
Status: Out of Print

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For Study Skills or academically-oriented Student Success courses.

 

This proven student success author team has updated its study skills text to extend the depth of core coverage while increasing the relevance and usefulness of the material.  In addition to a comprehensive treatment of study skills, Keys to College Studying integrates a definitive theme of active thinking throughout the text and exercises.  This theme builds will, skill, and self-management abilities — i.e., students’ ability to develop skills, strengthen the will to learn, and monitor and manage their progress. This theme enhances student involvement, understanding, and motivation.  End-of-chapter exercises, as well as new in-chapter exercises, link to and reinforce the theme.

 

Students and Faculty alike are encouraged to visit the central website for all Keys franchise materials, www.carterkeys.com, where you can correspond with the author team, view their speaking calendar, benefit from current articles, and more! 

Innovative Presentation of Study Skills

  • Academic Skills–In addition to comprehensive coverage of traditional study skills, this text includes important academic skills not found in other study skills texts–lifelong learning, learning styles and self-awareness, critical thinking, mastering library and Internet research skills, and writing effectively.
  • Critical thinking focus–Chapter 4 is devoted entirely to critical and creative thinking and their relationship to effective studying. Critical thinking is also emphasized throughout the text, showing students how critical thinking relates to each major study skill topic.  For example Chapter 6 contains a section on responding critically to what you read, Chapter 9 helps students use critical thinking when taking notes, and Chapter 10 emphasizes the use of critical thinking when evaluating research material.
  • Lifelong learning focus–The first chapter sets the tone with a discussion of why lifelong learning is important and shows how to use academic skills to promote success after college. Throughout the text, examples show how a continued effort to learn will benefit students in environments outside of academics.
  • Working world focus–Study skills learned in college will be used throughout working life. This text shows how each study skill comes into play on the job, illustrating to students that the work they do in school will serve them in the workplace long after they graduate.

Skill Building

  • Active Thinking end-of-chapter exercises–Each Chapter has a series of exercises entitled Building Skill, Will, and Self-Management.  These exercises reinforce the skills learned in the chapter, build vocabulary, and hone test-taking skills as they assess progress.  In addition, they promote goal-setting, research, and self-assessment skills.
    • Test Competence: Measuring What You've Learned–Includes 10 multiple-choice questions and five true/false questions.
    • Target ad Achieve a Goal–This goal-setting exercise asks students to develop a personal plan to implement the skills explored in the chapter.
    • Brain Power: Building Vocabulary Fitness–A vocabulary-building exercise with new words from excerpted magazine and newspaper articles.
    • Get to the Root–A vocabulary exercise that focuses on Greek and Latin roots of words.
    • Investigate Using Research Navigator–A guided online exercise that has students research topics and issues discussed in the chapter.
    • Making Responsible Choices–A journal-type exercise that encourages students to consider how chapter content applies to their lives.  The exercise synthesizes many concepts and builds critical thinking, writing, and decision-making skills.
  • End-of-part exercises–At the end of each of the four parts is a set of exercises entitled Active Thinking: Monitoring Your Progress. This set of exercises encourages the students to link together concepts that they have learned in that part's chapters.
    • Making Connections–Includes five multiple-choice questions, five true/false questions, 10 fill-in-the-blank questions, and 10 matching questions.
    • The Essay question–Requires a written subjective answer; the question is based on an excerpt (included in the text) from a current college textbook.
    • Be Accountable for Your Goals–This comprehensive goal-setting exercise asks students to assess and revise goals developed after each chapter to develop a study plan based on that assessment.

Learning Enhancement Features

  • Visual learning–The visuals help to engage the reader more actively and provide SUPERB visual reference points that clarify text. Several chapters have a visual summary–a mind map–that outlines the chapter topics, subtopics, and examples in visual format. Other chapters end with outline or Cornell System summaries.  Tables and figures reinforce material in every chapter.

  • Active Thinking theme.
    • Research demonstrates that students must have more than basic study skills to succeed in college.  They must also be motivated, self-aware, and able to assess their progress.  To fill the gap that many study skills texts miss, this text provides students with a solid foundation in core study skills while also showing them how to develop the will and self-awareness to learn and how to monitor and manage their own progress. To increase student engagement, the text explores how skill(Ex. pp 251, 259), will(Ex. pp 275), and self-management abilities(Ex. pp 270) will fuel school and life success. All exercises are linked to the theme, and an icon near each indicates which area is being developed.
  • “Go For It!”  and “Work Together” exercises in chapters.
    • Within each chapter, 2-4 “Go For It!” exercises (Ex. pp 261-263) and one “Work Together” exercise (Ex. pp 256) appear. These reinforce concepts by having students try out and apply what they’ve learned immediately after they read about it. “Work Together” specifically requires group work and encourages the development of teamwork skills.
  • Research Navigator.
    • With every NEW copy of the text, the Prentice Hall Guide to Research Navigator is included.  It provides students with access to Research Navigator Online, a research tool. At the end of each chapter of Keys to College Studying, a Research Navigator exercise (Ex. pp 275) builds research skills in the context of chapter material. Students build both library and online research skills.  Four databases of credible and reliable source material include: EBSCO/ContentSelect, The New York Times, Link Library, and The Financial Times.  (To see Table of Contents, please visit url http://www.researchnavigator.com/phguide).
  • Stronger Learning styles focus.
    • As in the first edition, an entire chapter (Chapter 2, pp 37) instructs students on how to explore their learning styles and use what they discover about themselves. To help students apply the information, multiple intelligence grids (Ex. pp 254) in each study skills chapter link learning styles information to the chapter material.
  • Chapter summaries in note taking formats.
    • At the end of each chapter, a summary appears (Ex. pp 276-278). Each summary is in one of three note-taking formats: Cornell system, outline, and think link (a visual mapping format).  Students review chapter material while building their understanding of note-taking formats.
  • Twice as Many Vocabulary-Building Exercises.
    • Two vocabulary-building exercises appear at the end of each chapter. One, “Brain Power,” (Ex. pp 273) has students read an excerpt from the current media and learn words in context. The other, “Get to the Root,” (Ex. pp 274) encourages understanding of a root by exploring words that include that root and relate to its meaning.  These exercises are SUPERIOR!
  • End-of-part materials have been changed and updated.
    • A quiz, essay question, and goal-setting exercise (Ex. pp 270-272) help students synthesize material from several chapters and deepen their retention and understanding of chapter concepts. Gives students practice, early in the course, with a more accurate representation of a college-level test-ie, multiple chapters’ worth of coverage, including an essay question.

Seminars and Services for Faculty

  • NEW Online Faculty Training: Faculty training anytime you want it. Ask questions. Share ideas. Troubleshoot. Join the Keys author online faculty training sessions, available to all adopters through Course Compass, and you’ll learn what other faculty using Keys are doing; be able to share exercises, syllabi, and teaching strategies; and view online videos of Joyce explaining specific learning activities. This new “Key” to your teaching success is free—no matter what your course size or location--and accessible online at www.keysfacultyonline.com.
  • Course Consulting Service–Provides professors with author written course advice based on their classroom teaching and learning experiences. Authors are also available to answer questions via their email addresses: Dr. Joyce Bishop - jbishop@gwc.cccd.edu or Carol J. Carter - caroljcarter@lifebound.com, or toll free at 877-737-8510.  Please give your local representative your syllabus and class objectives and we will have the advice plan back to you quickly!  Helps with text transition and new ways to get the message across to students.
  • Faculty Training–For adoptions of 1,000 annual copies or more! Create a customized presentation, select from: Multiple Intelligences, Motivating at Risk Students, Climbing out of the box, Setting Goals and Expectations, Teaching Responsibility and Ethics, Technology in the Classroom, Collaborative Learning and Critical Thinking.  Infuses classroom experience with new ideas.

Seminars for Students–In-school presentations for students are offered through LifeBound Seminars. Please visit the website at www.LifeBound.com.  Provides hands-on help for students. 

Part I              Knowledge, Skills, and Preparation: Where the Future Begins

Chapter 1        Set the Stage for Success: Managing Goals, Time, and Stress

Chapter 2        Learning Styles, Majors, and Careers: Knowing Your Talents and Finding Your Direction

Chapter 3        Critical and Creative Thinking: Solving Problems and Making Decisions

Part II             Reading, Understanding, and Remembering: Mastering Essential Learning Skills

Chapter 4        Reading Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Speed: Reading Faster and Understanding More

Chapter 5        Studying Textbooks and Course Materials: Mastering Content

Chapter 6        Listening and Memory: Taking In and Remembering Information

Part III           Notes, Writing, and Math: Building Active Study Skills

Chapter 7        Taking Lecture Notes: Recording Concepts and Information

Chapter 8        Effective Writing: Communicating Your Message

Chapter 9        Quantitative Learning: Becoming Comfortable with Math and Science

Part IV            Becoming a Better Test Taker and Creating Your Future: Choosing Success

Chapter 10      Test Taking: Developing a Winning Strategy

Chapter 11      Taking Objective, Essay, and Oral Exams: Showing What You Know

Chapter 12      Moving Ahead: Making Today’s Study Skills the Foundation for Tomorrow’s Success

Research Appendix

“Keys to College Studying provides useful tips for being a better thinker and excellent activities to practice techniques.  I especially like the activity requiring the student to build a solution to a problem and then deconstruct it.  

 

All chapters are infinitely more thorough than those in Pauk’s Essential Study Strategies and more connected to each other by means of the active thinking theme… This book is more of a ‘thinking student’s’ take on study skills; it has a definite body of knowledge that is clearly based on research… The text actually explains in great connected details WHY students should make changes in the way they operate and encourages them to choose their own path after arming themselves with knowledge… This text is clearly superior to the Pauk text.”   

-- Victoria Haydock at the University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh

 

“The systematic approach taken in Keys to College Studying seems more useful because it employs a building block approach.  It provides excellent step-by-step practical exercises within each chapter.” 

-- John Horn at Acquinas College in Nashville

Carol Carter is founder of LifeBound, a career coaching company that offers individual coaching sessions and seminars for high school students, college students, and career seekers. She has written Majoring in the Rest of Your Life: Career Secrets for College Students and Majoring in High School. She has also co-authored Keys to Preparing for College, Keys to Effective Learning, The Career Tool Kit, Keys to Career Success, Keys to Study Skills, Keys to Thinking and Learning, and Keys to Success. She has taught welfare to work classes, team taught in the La Familia Scholars Program at Community College of Denver, and has conducted numerous workshops for students and faculty around the country.  Carol is a national college and career expert and is interviewed regularly in print, on the radio, and for news programs.  In addition to working with students of all ages, Carol thrives on foreign travel and culture; she has been fortunate enough to have been a guest in over forty foreign countries. Please visit her website and write her at www.lifebound.com.

 

Joyce Bishop holds a Ph.D. in psychology and has taught for more than twenty years, receiving a number of honors, including Teacher of the Year for 1995 and 2000. For five years she has been voted “favorite teacher” by the student body and Honor Society at Golden West College, Huntington Beach, CA, where she has taught since 1987 and is a tenured professor. She has worked with a federal grant to establish Learning Communities and Workplace Learning in her district, and has developed workshops and trained faculty in cooperative learning, active learning, multiple intelligences, workplace relevancy, learning styles, authentic assessment, team building, and the development of learning communities. She is currently teaching online and multimedia classes, and training other faculty to teach online in her district and region of 21 colleges. She also co-authored Keys to Effective Learning, Keys to Success, Keys to Thinking and Learning, and Keys to Study Skills. Joyce is the lead academic of the Keys to Lifelong Learning Telecourse, distributed by Dallas Telelearning.

 

Sarah Lyman Kravits comes from a family of educators and has long cultivated an interest in educational development. She co-authored Keys to Success, Keys to Effective Learning, The Career Tool Kit, Keys to Thinking and Learning, and Keys to Study Skills and has served as Program Director for LifeSkills, Inc., a nonprofit organization that aims to further the career and personal development of high school students. In that capacity she helped to formulate both curricular and organizational elements of the program, working closely with instructors as well as members of the business community. She has also given faculty workshops in critical thinking. Sarah holds a B.A. in English and drama from the University of Virginia, where she was a Jefferson Scholar, and an M.F.A. from Catholic University.

The power to succeed is in the hands of the active thinker.  Keys to College Studying focuses on these three components of active thinking:

 

Will and self-awareness -- because successful learners are motivated to learn, understand how they learn, and see how learning will benefit them.

 

Skill to accomplish your goals -- because learning is a process that demands that you acquire and maintain a set of skills.

 

Ability to manage and monitor yourself -- because real growth requires that you keep an eye on your progress and make decisions about your goals based on what you see.

 

Become an active thinker. Engage your mind, take action, and set yourself up for success using active thinking and Keys to College Studying.

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