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College Success Skills: Managing College

Research Guide to the Education 1115 College Success Skills Course

Librarian: Marge Peters
Office: SRC 3034
Phone: 630-942-2337
Email: petersm@cod.edu

Videos, Websites, and Books

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Managing the Whole Experience

YouTube Videos
Video Guide: How to Study Long and Hard and Still Fail…or How to Get the Most Out of Studying
The overall theme of the videos is if students use ineffective or inefficient ways of studying, they can study long and hard and still fail; but if they use effective strategies, they will get the most learning out of your study time and be more likely to succeed.

Video 1: Beliefs That Make You Fail…Or Succeed
The first video examines common mistaken beliefs students often possess that undermine their learning. The video tries to correct those misconceptions with accurate beliefs about learning.
Video 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RH95h36NChI

Video 2: What Students Should Understand About How People Learn
The second video introduces a simple but powerful theory of memory, Levels of Processing, that can help students improve their study.
Video 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9O7y7XEC66M

Video 3: Cognitive Principles for Optimizing Learning
The third video operationalizes the concept of level of processing into four principles that students can use to develop effective study strategies.
Video 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xeHh5DnCIw

Video 4: Putting the Principles for Optimizing Learning into Practice
The fourth video applies the principles of deep processing to common study situations, including note taking and highlighting while reading.
Video 4: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9GrOxhYZdQ

Video 5: I Blew the Exam, Now What?
This video addresses students should and should not do when they earn a bad grade on an exam.
Video 5: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QVRiMkdRsU

A description of the presentation to freshmen upon which videos 1-4 is based can be found here: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/index.php/publications/observer/2010/april-10/improving-classroom-performance-by-challenging-student-misconceptions-about-learning.html

  • Ahead of the Pack: Balancing Your Way to Personal Success in College by Josh Richardson
    General Coll. LB2343.3 .R53 2006
  • Getting the Best Out of College: A Professor, a Dean, and a Student Tell You How to Maximize Your Experience by Peter Feaver, Sue Wasiolek, and Anne Crossman
    General Coll. LB2343.32 .F433 2008
  • The Community College Experience- Plus by Amy Baldwin
    General Coll. LB2343.32 .B24 2007

Managing Time

  • Time Management by Marc Mancini
    General Coll. HD69.T54 M37 2003
  • Achieve Twice as Much in Half the Time: Practical New Ways to Maximise Your Time and Transform Your Life by Harry Alder
    General Coll. HD69.T54 A42 2001
  • The Concise Time Mangement and Personal Development by John Adair and Melanie Allen
    General Coll. HD69.T54 A32 2003

Managing Stress & Anxiety

  • Under Pressure and Overwhelmed: Coping with Anxiety in College by Christopher Vye, Kathlene Scholljegerdes, and I. David Welch
    General Coll. LA229 .V94 2007
  • Beating the College Blues by Paul A. Grayson and Philip W. Meilman
    General Coll. LA229 .G74 1999

Learning Styles

  • Help Yourself: How to Take Advantage of Your Learning Styles by Gail Murphy Sonbuchner
    General Coll. PE 1128 .S654 1991
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