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Direct linkFleming, Jacqueline – Jossey-Bass, An Imprint of Wiley, 2012
In this important resource, Dr. Fleming (a noted expert in the field of minority retention) draws on educational evaluations she has developed in the course of her distinguished career. This book analyzes the common factors and the role institutional characteristics play in minority student retention to show what really works in increasing…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Institutional Characteristics, Minority Group Students, School Holding Power
Walter, Tim; Siebert, Al – 1976
The three objectives of this book are to give students who use it a better chance of success in school, to show students how to gain better understanding in their courses more quickly, and to enhance self-development. Chapters discuss the following topics: how to make it through school; how to make studying easier; how to become more intelligent…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement, Achievement Gains, College Students
Brechner, Irv – 1979
Survival strategies for college students are provided. Chapter One discusses student attitudes toward college including such areas as the importance of college, the need to attend classes, planning, and best use of homework. In Chapter Two planning four years at college is explored. Choice of courses and professors, effective use of time, the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, College Students, Educational Testing, Efficiency
Figler, Stephen; Figler, Howard – 1991
Advice is provided on how a student athlete can achieve his or her goals equally well in sports, academics, and career preparation. The book provides specific advice regarding how to balance these three areas of college life and solve the problems and pressures that will be encountered by the student in each of them. In particular, advice is given…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Athletes, College Athletics, College Students
Gibbs, Graham – 1981
Methods, their rationale, and exercises for Open University tutors are presented. The book is divided into two parts, the first concerning practical issues of how to actually teach students to learn and the second dealing with theoretical issues and the rationale for the teaching methods described in Part I. Part I, "A Student-Centered…
Descriptors: College Students, Extension Education, Higher Education, Learning
Gibbs, Graham, Ed. – 1995
This book contains 40 papers from an international symposium on improving the quality of higher education teaching and learning. Part 1 contains three papers on using research to improve student learning covering some Canadian projects, the use of research on student learning, and ways to evaluate and improve learning. Part 2 contains 10 papers on…
Descriptors: College Instruction, College Students, Computer Assisted Instruction, Cooperative Learning
