It's All About Choices: Recipes for Academic Success
Edition: 9
Copyright: 2023
Pages: 452
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In writing It’s All About Choices, Marlene Blumin's and Janine Nieroda-Madden's goals were simple:
- To prepare students for a successful transition to the academic workload in college.
- To help students understand their learning preferences and how to apply them within their courses in order to develop a personalized repertoire of effective learning strategies.
- To create efficient and effective learners who master the necessary balance needed for success in college.
This textbook is suitable for courses such as: Freshmen Orientation, Study Skills, College Readiness or Student Success courses
This textbook is suitable for high school and college students.
PEDAGOGICAL FEATURES:
- REALISTIC AND PRACTICAL TOOLS:
The text is based on the experiences of college students that yielded practical and proven tools. Students develop insight concerning their behaviors and understand how to become more efficient and effective learners.
- STRAIGHTFORWARD STYLE:
The style is direct and to the point. The strategies are presented concisely and as simply as possible. This is a manual for understanding and applying strategies to course-specific contexts.
- EMPHASIS ON APPLICATION
In every chapter, students have the opportunity to understand the strategy(s), choose one(s) to try in a course, evaluate the effectiveness and personalize the adaptation of the strategy(s) to the course-specific context.
FEATURES OF EACH CHAPTER:
- MULTIPLE CASE STUDIES
Each of the case studies are based on actual college students issues. Also, student quotes are included as introductory material.
- NUMEROUS LEARNING STRATEGIES/STUDY SKILLS
The strategies that are included have been developed in collaboration with college students and applied to college courses.
- EXERCISES
Each of the exercises is intended to reinforce the application of strategies in the students’ courses. In addition, the final chapter has additional application assignments.
Chapter 1: Navigating the transition to college
Chapter 2: A starting point: assessment
Chapter 3: Syllabus and text assessment
Chapter 4: Management: time, task, and study environment
Chapter 5: Procrastination
Chapter 6: Note-taking
Chapter 7: Reading
Chapter 8: Memory
Chapter 9: Exam preparation
Chapter 10: Exam-taking
Chapter 11: Collaborative learning
Chapter 12: Problem-solving
Chapter 13: Academic integrity and dishonesty
Chapter 14: Stress management
Chapter 15: Motivation
Chapter 16: Applications
Janine L. Nieroda-Madden is an assistant teaching professor at Syracuse University where she teaches courses in college learning strategies and teaching methods for undergraduate and graduate students in secondary English Education. She received her Ph.D. from Syracuse University in Literacy Education, awarded with distinction. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Socio-Cultural Anthropology from Binghamton University and her Master’s degree in English Education from Columbia University Teachers College. Dr. Nieroda-Madden began her work within the department of Reading & Language Arts at Syracuse University in 2010 wherein she has continued to teach courses in college learning strategies, materials and methods in secondary English Education, multicultural education, and adolescent literature. Prior to attending Syracuse University, Dr. Nieroda-Madden was an instructor at Cornell University’s John S. Knight Writing Institute for Writing in the Disciplines. Dr. Nieroda-Madden was also a tenured secondary English teacher and worked in urban and suburban schools within New York State for eight years prior to pursuing her doctorate at Syracuse University. Dr. Nieroda-Madden’s research focuses on critical multicultural education theory and practice; multimodal and digital literacies in cross-cultural contexts; literacy and global health; and instruction and assessment of college learning strategies.