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Student Success & Career Development



Keys to Success: Building Analytical, Creative, and Practical Skills, 6/E
Carol Carter
Joyce Bishop, Golden West College
Sarah Lyman Kravits
Judy Block

ISBN-10: 0136005047
ISBN-13: 9780136005049

Publisher: Prentice Hall
Copyright: 2009
Format: Paper; 400 pp
Published: 12/28/2007

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For courses in Student Success, Freshman Seminar/Orientation.

 

Now students can get the most out of college and use what they learn to achieve their goals in an everchanging world!  KEYS unlocks every student's potential by focusing on the individual.  No more one size fits all!  This is the only book that truly personalizes the information so every student learns to capitalize on their strengths and bolster their weaknesses by creating a strategic success plan in every aspect of their life.  This invigorating revision focuses on helping students develop their analytical, creative, and practical thinking skills to ensure they achieve their most important goals in College, Career, and Life by building successful intelligence.  The Keys message is simple - When students understand how material will help them get where they want to go, they will become more motivated and able to retain what they learn. The skills readers acquire through using this text will not only help them succeed in colllege, but will also serve them on the job and in life.

 

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! 

Since its’ publication, this Keys to Success has set the standard for helping students understand how to be successful in College, Career, and Life.  This revision builds on this strength, while adding the dimension of successful intelligence.  Through building their ability to think analytically, creatively, and practically, students  can understand their own power to choose and to act as they proceed through college and the world of work.

 

The text-wide theme of successful intelligence–The way to achieve College, Career, and Life goals and success through analytical, creative, and practical thinking.  Based on Robert Sternberg’s concept of successful intelligence to maximize learning and life success. 

  • Get Analytical, Get Creative, and Get Practical exercises–All geared toward skill building.
  • Building Successful Intelligence: Putting it All Together exercise–At the end of each chapter.

Student stories–Interspersed within the text.

  • Heightens both relevance of the material and the student’s ability to connect to the content and how it may apply to their world.
  • All new stories have been introduced to address the current challenges today’s student faces–e.g., balancing school with work, returning to school as an older student, dealing with financial needs, parenting, supporting various lifestyles and schedules, etc.

Learning Styles coverage–Thoroughly revised and integrated in each chapter.

  • Shows a clearer delineation of the two learning styles assessments and makes them more useful: how you learn (Gardner's Multiple-Intelligences-based assessment) and how you interact with others (Myers-Briggs-based assessment).  Provides specific strategies to play to strengths, compensate for weaknesses, and build study skills.

Values, goal setting, time management, basic stress management, and test taking strategies–Earlier placement of the content.

  • Values, goals, time, and stress; test taking strategies and in Becoming a Better Test Taker sections. Facilitates early-in-the-semester coverage of these all-important topics that students are eager to master early on in school.

Multiple Intelligence Strategies–One each in Chapter.  Each chapter’s grid focuses on a particular topic.

  • Provides students with a concrete way to utilize the skills they have just learned and builds upon the focus on Multiple Intelligences.

A Quick Start to College–A resource guide at the beginning of the text. Covers essential need-to-know-first topics, e.g., getting oriented, resources (human and other), financial aid, registration, computer services, getting involved with extracurricular activities, and more.

  • Provides students with a convenient mini-handbook with helpful information that helps them feel connected right at the start of school.

Expanded coverage of common Freshman pitfalls–Academic integrity; choosing a major; stress management; credit card debt.

  • Provides a more in-depth look at common issues, helping students avoid common pitfalls.

Personal Triumph stories–At the end of every third chapter and each Part. Presents a real-life story of a person who has overcome difficult circumstances in the pursuit of education and fulfillment.  In the chapters where a Personal Triumph appears, the first end-of-the-chapter exercise links with the story.

  • Inspires students and motivates them to step up their personal efforts to succeed.

Activity based exercises.

  • Activity to introduce a word or phrase from a language other than English and suggests how you might apply the concept to your own life.
  • Team Building: Collaborative Solutions exercises, Writing: Discovery Through Journaling exercises, and Career Portfolio: Plan for Successexercises — this consistent series of three exercises appears at the end of each chapter.

NEW - INTEGRATED!  The text-wide theme of successful intelligence—The way to achieve College, Career, and Life goals and success through analytical (critical), creative, and practical thinking.   Since its publication, Keys has set the standard for helping students understand how to be successful in College, Career, and Life.  This revision builds on this strength, while expanding the integration of last edition’s new theme of successful intelligence -a term that refers to the ability to think creatively and practically in addition to analytically. Through research, this theory has been proven to increase student achievement across a span of ages, cultures, and socioeconomic status. With these three skills, students can boost their power to choose and to act as they proceed through college and the world of work.  Here’s how this feature is integrated in 6e:

  • NEW PLACEMENT as The theme is introduced in Chapter 1 and threaded throughout the remaining chapters in the text, exercises, and features. Expanded discussion of critical, creative, and practical thinking in Chapter 4 connects these thinking skills to applications--namely, problem-solving and decision-making.
  • NEW Pre- and Post-course assessments found in Chapters 1 and 12 help students assess their progress in building these crucial skills.  Chapter 1 has separate assessments on each thinking skill as well as a comprehensive assessment based on the “self-activators” exhibited by successfully intelligent thinkers. Chapter 12 contains end-of-term versions of each of these assessments.
  • NEW Successful Intelligence Preview.Each chapter starts with a mind-map preview of how students will build their analytical, creative, and practical (ACP) skills (pp.102).
  • NEW Successful Intelligence Wrap Up.An end-of-chapter summary that shows how students how they have developed these skills through chapter reading and activities (pp. 125).
  • Get Analytical, Get Creative, and Get Practical in-chapter exercises—All geared toward skill building. These three exercises build knowledge and use of chapter material in the context of successful intelligence (pp. 110, 115, 118).
  • “Successful Intelligence: Think, Create, Apply” exercise—  This synthesis end-of-chapter exercise has students use their analytical, creative, and practical thinking skills in combination to explore a situation or resolve a problem related to a chapter topic (pp. 127).

NEW - IMPROVED!  Student Perspective. Stories, quotes, and issues are interspersed within the text and in “Personal Triumph Case Study” and “Real Questions/Practical Answers” features. Heightens both relevance of the material and the student’s ability to connect to the content and how it may apply to their world.  

  • NEW Real Questions/Practical Answers—Chapter opening features highlight questions posed by actual students as they begin college. Each question is answered by another student, faculty member, or business person who has had similar experiences. Contributors exhibit a wide variety of races, ages, and situations. Students learn from others’ questions and experiences so they can deal more d successfully with similar challenges (pp. 103).
  • NEW Personal Triumph Case Studies—At the end of every third chapter, four total. Presents a real-life case study of a person who has faced difficulty in the pursuit of education. In the chapters where a Personal Triumph appears, the first end-of-the-chapter exercise links with the story. The Companion Web site has additional case studies. Motivates and inspires students to set academic goals and attain them, despite personal obstacles.  Now featuring art by student artists who faced difficulties similar to the people profiled in case study. Artists are briefly profiled on the page (pp. 90).
  • NEW stories have been introduced to address the current challenges today’s student faces—e.g., balancing school with work, returning to school after service in the military, dealing with financial needs, parenting, supporting various lifestyles and schedules, etc.

NEW - UPDATED!  Learning Styles coverage—Thoroughly revised in Chapter 3 and integrated in all remaining chapters.

  • UPDATED Chapter 3 more clearly delineates each of the two learning assessments and makes them more useful: how you learn (Gardner's Multiple-Intelligences-based assessment, pp. 72) and how you interact with others (Myers-Briggs-based assessment pp. 76).  Provides specific strategies to play to strengths, compensate for weaknesses, and build study skills.
  • NEW Multiple Intelligence StrategiesChapters 5-11 contain easy-to-find, easy-to-use Multiple Intelligence Strategy grids that demonstrate how MI applies to the main chapter topic. The grids now include cross-curricular applications that illustrate how students can transfer the skills they’ve just learned to another course (pp. 162).

NEW - EXPANDED!  Timing Is Everything: Practical strategies when your students need them.

  • NEW Goal setting introduced in Chapter 1; values, goals, and time covered in depth in Chapter 2 (pp. 00); and test taking discussed in Chapter 7.
  • Get Focused! Time and Test Taking  sections close each part (Chapters 4, 8, and 12) to give students time management and test information when they need it (before midterms, at the end-of-term crunch period, and before finals).
  • Quick Start to College (pp. xxix)—From the first page of this text, we offer timely, practical information for your students so they can feel more connected. This convenient resource guide covers essential need-to-know-first topics, such as getting oriented, resources (human and other), calculating a GPA, dropping/changing classes, financial aid, technology services, getting involved with extracurricular activities, and more.
  • Cultural competence concept—The ability to actively adapt to and learn from different people around you is crucial for success. Introduced in Chapter 1, expanded upon in Chapter 9 on Diversity, and touched upon throughout the text.  Shows students how personal differences affect and benefit them in school, work, and life; encourages them to understand the value of going beyond tolerance to take positive action.
  • EXPANDED coverage of common Freshman pitfalls—Topics such as academic integrity; choosing a major; stress management; and credit card debt take focus at various points through the text. Helps students avoid common pitfalls.

NEW - REVISED!  Activity based exercises.

  • Activity to introduce a word or phrase from a language other than English and suggests how you might apply the concept to your own life.
  • Team Building: Create Solutions Together exercises, Writing: Journal and Put Skills to Work exercises, and Personal Portfolio: Prepare for Career Success (pp. 128) exercises – this consistent series of three exercises appears at the end of each chapter.

NEW - MyStudentSuccessLab (www.mystudentsuccesslab.com ) is a fully interactive learning environment. This easy-to-use, self-guided lab will help students discover their potential. 

  • General Topics Covered include:  Welcome to College/College Culture, Academic Skills, Life Skills, and Career Skills
  • Found Within Each Chapter TopicChapter Objectives, Pre-Assessment, E-book (with Multimedia features), Interactive Case Study (Chs 1, 2, 4-8), Journaling and Goal Setting activity, and Comprehension Test
  • Posted Under the Resources SectionUnderstanding Plagiarism guide, Prentice Hall Planner, Student Reflection Journal, 10 Ways to Fight Hate, Student Success Supersite, Online Dictionary

Available in a variety of course management platforms, it allows students to set their own pace, build self awareness, and practice what they need to succeed in college, career, and life. 

 

Available in Keys Custom Database Program

  • NEW now available in 4-color!
  • Allows you to choose chapters and create your own book. Include up to 20% of your own material and decide on chapter order.
  • For more information, visit www.pearsoncustom.com/database/keys.html  

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. 

 

The focus on each student's individual learning needs are truly more personalized and relevant than ever!  Think you know KEYS?  Be prepared to 'think outside the book' and unlock your current mindset!

Quick Start to College: Helpful Information and Advice as You Begin

 

I. DEFINING YOURSELF AND YOUR GOALS.

 

 1. Welcome to College: Opening Doors to Success.

 

 2. Values, Goals, and Time: Managing Yourself

 

 3. Learning How You Learn: Making the Most of Your Abilities

 

II. DEVELOPING ACADEMIC SKILLS.

 

 4. Critical, Creative, and Practical Thinking: Solving Problems and Making Decisions

 

 5. Reading and Studying: Focusing on Content

 

 6. Listening, Note Taking, and Memory: Taking In, Recording, and Remembering Information

 

 7. Test Taking: Showing What You Know

 

 8. Researching and Writing: Gathering and Communicating Ideas

           

III. CREATING LIFE SUCCESS.

 

 9. Relating to Others: Communicating in a Diverse World

 

10. Personal Wellness: Taking Care of Yourself

 

11. Managing Money and Career: Reality Resources

 

12. Creating Your Life: Building a Successful Future

 

Praise from instructors and students for Keys to Success, 6th Edition: 

 

There’s nothing I DON’T like about Keys to Success.  What I like most is that my students actually READ the book. The style far exceeds other texts in its welcoming, engaging atmosphere.  My students use the information and strategies in the text.  How could I ask for more? 

Patricia Parma, Palo Alto College

 

I rate this text an “A.” Keys is one of the most important books that our students will read.  The value it holds for coursework and their life’s work cannot be overstated

Billy Davis, Florida Community College at Jacksonville   

 

User-friendly, interesting to read… full of tips and strategies students can use.

Katherine Hansen, Minnesota State University

 

A very well laid out, student friendly, clearly written text that addresses 21st century student issues and concerns about attending college.

Deryl Davis Fulmer, Milwaukee Area Technical College

 

Keys to Success provides an exceptional overview of academic study skills. . . . The book also introduces the idea of “Successful Intelligence.”  The practices it describes are perfect for helping students be successful in college.  As a matter of fact, the practices are just as applicable to life and work as they are to college

Elaine J. Casquarelli, Santa Fe Community College

 

I think the text is excellent and supports lifelong learning. The writing style… suggests a conversation between the text and its reader. Clear, “fresh,” comprehensive and focuses on the “whole” student. Sound theoretical base.

Christine A. Lottman, University of Cincinnati

 

Students with every type of learning style will be able to learn and apply the concepts in [this text] in a lasting manner. 

Lanita Legan, Texas State University

 

This is a very easily read, high-interest text, yet is right on as far as credibility and level of difficulty. . . It is well-balanced, with equal emphasis on affective skills, as well as the academic skills needed in college. 

Linda Lemkau, North Idaho College

 

I like the layout and design.  The reading level is easy, yet not condescending.  The book is engaging. There is wonderful information presented in a concise, understandable, practical, usable manner.  It is such a positive and practical text.  Compared to other texts, I’d give it a definite thumbs up.

Jeanine Long, Southwest Georgia Technical College

 

I would give this text an “A” because it is very easy to understand, helpful, and provides many ways to learn the material.

Mayra Pena, Student, Golden West College

 

Keys to Success is an invaluable resource. It walks the reader through transitioning to college and demonstrates how to build intelligence that will help in all college classes.
David G. Horn, Student, Denison University

 

Unlike other textbooks that focus on lecturing with a certain heaviness, Carter's Keys is more interactive.  Never once while reading did I feel discouraged; rather, Keys inspired and encouraged me to take the next step in my academic career with confidence.

 Laura Daugherty, Student, University of Colorado--Boulder

 

The impact this book has had on my college career is invaluable.  Time management is crucial and Keys to Success has helped me learn how to efficiently manage my school work and personal life.
Joshua Adam Carter, Student, The Ohio State University

 

The work ethic Carter teaches in Keys to Success can be applied not only in the class or workplace, but in personal areas. Keys thoroughly explains the skills needed to get ahead and teaches you how to effectively implement them in your own life.
Torey L. Greenwald, Student, University of Florida

Carol Carter was a C student in high school. During her senior year, she got a wake up call when her brother told her that she had intelligence, but she wouldn’t go far in life unless she believed in herself enough to work hard. She began college knowing she was “behind the 8-ball” in terms of her skills. What she lacked in experience, she made up for with elbow grease and persistence. She maximized her strength as an interpersonal and intrapersonal learner. The work paid off and she graduated college with honors and a desire to help other students.

                Carol is committed to helping students turn on their brains, get motivated, and discover their abilities. As President of her own company, LifeBound, she teaches study, interpersonal, and career skills to middle school and high school students in order to help them become competitive in today’s global world. She trains and certifies coaches in academic coaching skills, and focuses on at-risk students with her volunteer teaching at the federal prison and her LifeBound work in the Denver housing projects. “All students are at-risk for something whether it is academic, emotional, social, or economic,” says Carol. “If each of us is allowed to be human and accept our flaws, we can overcome our limitations and be the best for ourselves and others.” 

                Carol also speaks on educational topics nationally and internationally.  Her first book, Majoring in the Rest of Your Life, launched her writing career and opened the door to her work on the Keys to Success series.

 

Joyce Bishop has taught college students for more than twenty years.  After struggling with a learning disability as a student, she focused on her visual and logical-mathematical learning abilities and went on to earn a PhD in psychology. Right now, she is in her dream job as Staff Development Coordinator at Golden West College, training other faculty in effective teaching and learning strategies and also in how to teach online.  For five years Joyce was voted “favorite teacher,” and she was Teacher of the Year for 1995 and 2000. 

            Joyce and her husband, Dave, a former high school principal, started a program 17 years ago for girls who have no family support or whose families are unable to help them through school.  Since that time, the Pathways to Independence non-profit foundation has sent 215 young women to college, and 175 have graduated into gainful employment.  While the girls have come from backgrounds as diverse as prison, extreme poverty, abuse, or psychological disorders, Joyce and Dave have been their champions.  One of her Pathways graduates, Valerie, who obtained her degree in nursing and is now working at a major university hospital as a pediatric nurse.  “It is so inspiring to see what these girls do with their lives,” says Joyce, “once they know that they can do anything.”

 

Sarah Kravits lives the strategies for success she writes about. As an author and mother of three children aged 8, 5, and 2, she faces the challenges of time management, goal achievement, and fulfilling responsibilities (not to mention eating right and getting enough sleep).  In her writing and research, she works to keep up with technology and the growth of knowledge.  In her relationships with work colleagues all over the country as well as with friends and family, she strives for integrity, effective communication, productive teamwork, and, most of all, flexibility. Creativity also plays a dominant role. Along with her husband, an actor on Broadway and a musician, she promotes creative ideas and actions in the home (and needs lots of creativity in order to manage children’s strong wills and unique personalities).

           Unlike Carol and Joyce, Sarah thrived in school from an early age based on her strength in verbal-linguistic and logical-mathematical learning. A few years after graduating from the University of Virginia as a Jefferson Scholar, she worked as program director for LifeSkills, Inc., a nonprofit organization that aims to further the career and personal development of high school students.  This work led her into co-authoring her first student success text and the realization she was driven to empower students to reach their goals.  “Lifelong learning is the essential success skill,” says Sarah. “I would happily trade places with my readers to have the chance to challenge my mind in a college classroom again.  Learning gives you a chance to go beyond just thinking about your dreams so that you can make them happen.” 

 

“People who succeed have something in common that is much more important than high test scores. They have managed to acquire, develop, and apply their analytical, creative, and practical thinking skills. They know how to put them together to reach for their most important goals. In other words, they are successfully intelligent."

                                                                                    --Robert J. Sternberg

 

Research indicates that intelligence isn't fixed:  It can grow.  No matter what your individual strengths and weaknesses are, Keys to Success will help you build your intelligence with its integrated focus on critical, creative, and practical thinking skills.

 

 

NEW AND EXCLUSIVE ONLINE FACULTY TRAINING

Online teaching pioneer, author Dr. Joyce Bishop, now is available to help you teach your Student Success classes anytime you want, 24/7! Join Joyce Bishop and a community of Student Success instructors online.  Learn strategies to reach all types of students, including commuter, urban, traditional, non-traditional, ELL, and learning disabled students.  Discover what other Keys adopters are doing and share exercises, syllabi, and teaching strategies.  Take advantage of this new "Key" to your teaching success by accessing Prentice Hall's course management system, CourseCompass.

 

SUCCESSFUL INTELLIGENCE PODCASTS ONLINE

Put your MP3 player into service as a Keys to Success study aid.  Author Sarah Lyman Kravits has created a Successful Intelligence Connection podcast for each chapter.  Tune in to this fun broadcast to learn the most innovative ways to develop your intelligence.  To link to this feature, go to the text's Companion Website at www.prenhall.com/carter to listen to or download any of the twelve podcasts.

 

FREE PHONE ASSISTANCE

If you need help thinking through your syllabus, class plans and strategy, or would like guidance on how to use this book, any of its supplements, or technology, please call Carol Carter toll-free at 877-737-8510.

 

Keys has its own Companion Website designed to help students review the text material.  This site (www.prenhall.com/carter) can also be accessed through the Student Success Supersite (www.prenhall.com/success), where students and faculty will find an array of resources.

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Carol Carter

How can students get the most out of college and use what they learn to achieve their goals in an ever-changing world?

No more one size fits all! This is the only book that truly personalizes the information so every student learns to capitalize on their strengths and bolster their weaknesses by creating a strategic success plan in every aspect of their life. This invigorating revision focuses on helping students develop their analytical, creative, and practical thinking skills to ensure they achieve their most important goals in College, Career, and Life by building successful intelligence.

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