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For First Year Experience Student Success and Introduction to College courses for students attending four year programs.
Keys to College Success sets the standard for connecting academic success to success beyond school showing students how to apply strategies within college career and life. This Eighth edition retains Keys' tried-and-true emphasis on thinking skills and problem solving re-imagined with two goals in mind: One a risk and reward framework that reflects the demands today's students face and two a focus on student experience specific to four-year schools with a more extensive research base and increased metacognition.
Keys to College Success helps students take ownership develop academic and transferable skills and show the results of commitment and action so they are well equipped with the concentration commitment focus and persistence necessary to succeed. MyStudentSuccessLab (www.mystudentsuccesslab.com) helps students to 'Start strong Finish stronger' by acquiring the skills they need to succeed for ongoing personal and professional development.
Teaching & Learning Experience: Strategies for College Career and Life Success
Keys to College Success provides the established KEYS set of tools for success — an understanding of how coursework connects to career and life goal achievement and analytical creative and practical thinking coverage that empowers a range of cognitive ability. This program provides:
· Personalized Learning with MyStudentSuccessLab: Whether face-to-face or online MyStudentSuccessLab helps students build the skills they need through peer-led video interviews interactive practice exercises and activities that provide academic life and professionalism skills.
· College Connection to Career and Life Goals: Infused with a fresh focus on risk and reward showing that the reward of success in the modern world demands a risk of vision and persistent effort over time. It raises the bar to show students that they must risk action to grow thrive and contribute in order to make their college investment pay off in gainful employment meaningful work and community involvement.
· Thinking Skills coverage:Comprehensive content with research references lend credibility and perspective to concepts targeted exercises that explore personally relevant situations in context and sustained focus throughout each topic.
· Tailored to the Four Year Program experience: Acknowledges global economic change and instability and hones in on student concerns about employability skills and debt management so the four-year college experience is framed in practical work-relevant ways even as it supports the value of a liberal education. New coverage of resources topics and research support concepts.
Series: Key Series Audience-specific
Paperback: 384 pages
Publisher: Pearson; 8 edition (September 3 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0133958817
ISBN-13: 978-0133958812
Product Dimensions: 8.5 x 0.5 x 10.8 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
