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Keys to College Success Compact

Carol J. Carter, LifeBound, LLC

Sarah Lyman Kravits, Montclair State University

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Description

For First-Year Experience, Student Success, and Introduction to College courses that are1 credit hour and/or those with blended and online students. Aligned with learning outcomes from both Student Success CourseConnect and MyStudentSuccessLab, it is designed as a stand alone book or a print companion with one of these technologies.

Keys to College Success Compact sets the standard for connecting academic success to success beyond school, showing students how to apply strategies within college, career, and life. Offers 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 1 credit or blended/online with a more extensive research base and increased metacognition.

Keys to College Success Compact 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. Student Success CourseConnect (http://www.pearsoncourseconnect.com) is one of many award-winning CourseConnect online courses designed by subject matter experts and credentialed instructional designers. MyStudentSuccessLab (http://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 Compact 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.The MyStudentSuccessLab with eText title-specific course is available in an updated (2015) version. The course includes an eText, book specific Chapter Quiz, Midterm, and Final exam assessment, and aligns the Learning Path to the table of contents in the text. It offers new and revised module content, enhanced Conley Readiness Index (CRI) reporting, Learning Catalytics™ interactive response tool, Media Share file load tool for video-based assignments, and improved accessibility.
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 1-credit hour or Blended/Online Program experience: Acknowledges global economic change and instability and hones in on student concerns about employability skills and debt management so the 1 credit hour or blended/online course experience is framed in practical, work-relevant and time conscious ways.

Reviews

"The authors deeply believe that 'It’s not just what you know…it’s what you know how to do.' I think Keys to Success is very good for our audience, and the greatest strength in my view are the reflections, activities, and case studies that help students think about and discuss these issues. Yes students need support but my experience is that THE WORDS have little effect, it's WHAT THEY DO WITH THE WORDS - exercises and activities that help." --Julie Stein, California State University-East Bay

"It is in the process of productive struggle, deliberate practice, and making explicit connections that we can realize that educational risk-taking is the only way to assure that every option for our future remains open to us." --Dede deLaughter, Gainesville State College

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Features

Personalized Learning with MyStudentSuccessLab (www.mystudentsuccesslab.com ), a title-specific course, available in an updated (2015) version. The course includes an eText; book-specific Chapter Quiz, Midterm, and Final exam assessments; and alignment of the Learning Path to the table of contents in the text. It offers new and revised module content, enhanced Conley Readiness Index (CRI) reporting, Learning Catalytics™ interactive response tool, Media Share file loading tool for video-based assignments, and improved accessibility. This learning outcomes-based technology promotes student engagement through the following:

NEW! Conley Readiness Index (CRI), a research-based behavioral diagnostic, developed by Dr. David T. Conley, that measures readiness around skill set and builds ownership of learning.
A Full Course Pre- and Post-Diagnostic test, based on Bloom’s Taxonomy, is linked to key learning objectives in each topic.
Each Individual topic in the Learning Path offers a Pre- and Post-Test dedicated to that topic, an Overview of objectives to build vocabulary and repetition, access to Video interviews to learn about key issues ‘by students, for students’, Practice exercises to improve class prep and learning, and Graded Activities to build critical thinking skills and develop problem-solving abilities.
Student Resources include Finish Strong 247 YouTube videos, Calculators, and Professionalism/Research & Writing/Student Success tools.
NEW! Highly engaging, new videos in every module present key concepts humorously and memorably, with follow-up questions to test students’ understanding and application of the content.
NEW! "Risk and Reward" assignments are included in each module to allow students to apply what they have learned; student progress is evaluated throughout the course.
NEW! Employability Capstone Activities are available for assignment in each module. These activities are designed to help students apply what they are learning to the real world and to the search for employment after college.
NEW! Overviews revised for stronger student usability, including a “Status Check” feature, which helps students understand where they are at this point in their lives and how they can move forward.
NEW! Updated Writing Assignments with online rubric for ease of grading.
NEW! Midterm and Final Exam tests are available to assign.
NEW! Chapter Quizzes now reside within each module rather than a separate Quiz module. Quizzes are a mix of multiple-choice and true/false.

College Connection to Career and Life Goals: Infused with risk and reward.

Risk and Reward Theme. To be rewarded with goal achievement in the fast-paced information age, students must take calculated, productive risks. The benefit of risks small (putting in the work your courses require) and large (aiming for a degree in a tough major, working toward a challenging career) is learning transferable skill building, persistence, and confidence. (Ex. — In every lesson, and in features such as the opening and closing to each lesson’s case study.)

Thinking Skills coverage

Brain-based learning and metacognition. Cites research on building intelligence, the science of learning, the changes in the brain that happen when you remember, the cost of switch-tasking, brain development in adolescence and early adulthood, and more. This information builds student metacognition. (Ex. - Throughout the book as applicable, ie.-Lesson 1 (introduction), Lesson 5 (thinking), Lesson 7 (memory).

Successful Intelligence Framework. Builds a comprehensive set of analytical, creative, practical thinking skills to empower students to strengthen their command of the problem solving process and take practical action. (Ex. - Introduced in Lesson 1; expounded upon in thinking lesson (Chapter 5); exercises (Get Analytical, Get Creative, Get Practical).

In-lesson exercises focused on analytical, creative, critical thinking, and financial literacy. These exercises give readers a chance to apply an idea or skill to their personal needs and situations in a particular type of thinking. One of the following appears in each lesson. (Ex. - In each lesson, ie.-Lesson 2.)

o Get Analytical builds analytical thinking skill

o Get Creative builds creative thinking skill

o Get Practical builds practical thinking skill

End-of-lesson exercises, each with a distinctive practical goal. Targeted to develop a particular skill to have readers perform a lesson-related task that has specific personal value. (Ex. - End of lesson, ie.-Lesson 4.)

o Know It builds critical thinking skill

o Write It builds emotional intelligence and practical writing skill

Tailored to the 1-credit hour or Blended/Online Program experience

Citations of groundbreaking work on motivation as well as current research on a variety of topics. Citations add to credibility of author voice as they support ideas with research, provide the “why” behind the “what to do”, and make the book relevant to today's students. They also reflect the substance of these topics to readers who may enter the course thinking it is “lightweight”. (Ex. - Throughout the book, ie.-Citations of work by Robert Sternberg and Carol Dweck in Lesson 1.)

PEARSON CHOICES

Student Success CourseConnect (http://www.pearsoncourseconnect.com) is one of many award-winning CourseConnect customizable online courses designed by subject matter experts and credentialed instructional designers, and helps students 'Start strong, Finish stronger' by building skills for ongoing personal and professional development. This TOPICAL based technology promotes student engagement through:

· Library of rich media (audio/video)

· Compatible with many learning management systems (LMS)

· Flexible discussion questions, syllabi, and assessment content

· iPad*-compatible lessons

· Instructor Resource Guide to support facilitation in the online environment

· Option to add e-book

· Online tutorial support available

· Analytics Edition available in Pearson Learning Studio platform

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New to This Edition

Personalized Learning with MyStudentSuccessLab (www.mystudentsuccesslab.com ), a title-specific course, available in an updated (2015) version. The course includes an eText; book-specific Chapter Quiz, Midterm, and Final exam assessments; and alignment of the Learning Path to the table of contents in the text. It offers new and revised module content, enhanced Conley Readiness Index (CRI) reporting, Learning Catalytics™ interactive response tool, Media Share file loading tool for video-based assignments, and improved accessibility. This learning outcomes-based technology promotes student engagement through the following:

NEW! Conley Readiness Index (CRI), a research-based behavioral diagnostic, developed by Dr. David T. Conley, that measures readiness around skill set and builds ownership of learning.
NEW! Highly engaging, new videos in every module present key concepts humorously and memorably, with follow-up questions to test students’ understanding and application of the content.
NEW! "Risk and Reward" assignments are included in each module to allow students to apply what they have learned; student progress is evaluated throughout the course.
NEW! Employability Capstone Activities are available for assignment in each module. These activities are designed to help students apply what they are learning to the real world and to the search for employment after college.
NEW! Overviews revised for stronger student usability, including a “Status Check” feature, which helps students understand where they are at this point in their lives and how they can move forward.
NEW! Updated Writing Assignments with online rubric for ease of grading.
NEW! Midterm and Final Exam tests are available to assign.
NEW! Chapter Quizzes now reside within each module rather than a separate Quiz module. Quizzes are a mix of multiple-choice and true/false.

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Carol Carter has spent her entire career in the business world, where she has a track record of success in corporate America, entrepreneurship, and non-profit. Her student success work is driven by firsthand knowledge of what employers expect and demand from today’s graduates. As President of LifeBound, an academic and career coaching company, she drives the company’s goal to help middle school and high school students become competitive in today’s world, and she teaches study, interpersonal, and career skills to students as well as training and certifying adults in academic coaching skills. Carol speaks on educational topics nationally and internationally and is an expert blogger for the Huffington Post under “Impact,” “College,” and “Business.” Carol is a co-author on many books for Pearson including the Keys to Success series as well as Keys to Business Communication and the Career Tool Kit. She has also published a series of books for K-12 students through LifeBound, including Dollars and Sense: How To Be Smart About Money and Majoring In the Rest of Your Life: Career Secrets for College Students.

Sarah Kravits teaches student success at Montclair State University and has been studying and writing about student success for over 15 years. She is a co-author on the Keys to Success series, including Keys to College Success, Keys to Community College Success, Keys to Success, Keys to Effective Learning, Keys to Online Learning, and Keys to Success Quick. Sarah has given workshops and trainings on student success topics such as critical thinking, risk and reward, and time management at schools all over the country.