Description
The book is:
1. Substantive
- Research-based material builds on scholarship from different academic disciplines and student development theories.
- Models citation of scholarly references that students can emulate.
- Educates students not only about what they should do to be successful, but provides compelling reasons why they should do it.
2. Interactive
- Pre-chapter questions activate students' thinking and prior knowledge about the upcoming topic.
- Within-chapter questions punctuate students' reading with opportunities for reflection.
- Post-chapter exercises promote consolidation and application of knowledge acquired from the chapter.
The new fifth edition of Thriving in College and Beyond features:
- A new chapter on mental health (psychological wellness).
- New material on student leadership.
- Additional material on grit and resilience.
- Career readiness and employability skills infused across chapters.
- More extensive coverage of diversity, including sexual orientation and gender identity
- Strategies for promoting civility and campus community.
- Updated online resources for locating additional information relating to each chapter topic.
- A new pre/post course-assessment instrument accompanies the text.
Adopting instructors are provided with comprehensive professional development materials including research-based guidelines for course design, delivery, and assessment. The extensive Instructor's Manual includes:
- Information on course planning, topic placement/sequencing, and syllabus design.
- Strategies for incentivizing and ensuring that students read the book.
- Specific learning objectives to guide student reading that align directly with test-bank questions.
- Step-by-step instructional directions for in-class exercises and out-of-class assignments that engage students in active, interactive, and collaborative learning.
Detailed strategies for course and program evaluation, including course-embedded strategies for assessing student learning outcomes, pre/post assessment instrument designed to measure positive changes in student knowledge, behaviors, and attitudes, plus student and instructor course-evaluation surveys.
A concise version of this textbook is also available for 1- or 2-credit courses. Thriving in College & Beyond: Concise Version
Book Information
ISBN 9781524989996
Author Joseph B. Cuseo
Page Count 277
Imprint Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.
Publisher Kendall/Hunt Publishing Co ,U.S.