Learning and Motivation Strategies : Your Guide to Success

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Written and designed to enhance students’ complex thinking skills and independent learning strategies, this innovative hands-on text uses a consistent set of psychological principles as the basis for teaching students how to learn and motivate themselves.  Its'user-friendly style and open approach make it easily accessible in a classroom, lab, or independent study. Organized around four major strategies proven to increase academic success the text helps develop students' achievement-oriented behavior:

            Strategy #1       Take Reasonable Risks: Achieve Goals through manageable steps

            Strategy #2       Take Responsibility: Think positively and plan

            Strategy #3       Search the Environment: Ask questions and visualize possibilities

            Strategy #4       Use Feedback: Monitor your progress and adapt your strategies

Features include:

NEW!  New topics.

·         Integrated sections on critical thinking, resilience, and diversity.

NEW!  Expanded coverage of techniques critical to academic success.

·         Includes reducing procrastination, increasing responsibility, learning from lectures and text, overcoming test anxiety, and choosing a career.

NEW!  Updated and extensive list of interactive activities.

·         Based on feedback from students and the results of their actual performance

·         Well-developed Companion Website will enable users to complete all the interactive activities and end-of-module quizzes online and submit them electronically to their instructors for grading and feedback.

Students are encouraged to actively participate in quick practices, applications, self-surveys, assignments, self-assessments, and portfolios as a way to improve their skills and hone their strategies. These activities are also located on the accompanying website, thus supporting students to actively engage in their own learning (www.prenhall.com/tuckman).