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The Bermuda Triangle of Student Success: Where Students’ Hopes for Good Grades Mysteriously Vanish
You've likely heard of the Bermuda Triangle, that mysterious stretch of the North Atlantic where ships and planes are said to vanish without a trace 🚢✈️🌊. It's an urban legend that captures the imagination, hinting at unexplained disappearances and baffling phenomena....
Teach Students to Love Learning: A special Valentine’s Day Post
It’s Valentine’s Day; once again, love is in the air. I want to challenge you today to make your students fall in love with learning. Learning is about establishing relationships with information. If students are to be effective learners, excelling in class and...
The Path to Solving Our Most Persistent Problems: Understanding Student Underperformance
Colleges and universities face a range of challenges, such as retaining new students, ensuring returning students make satisfactory progress, and maintaining high academic standards, all while achieving high levels of community satisfaction. These challenges may...
First-Year Focus Group Session Look-in
Focus groups can provide solutions or lead to wild goose chases. In this post, I allow you to listen in on a session in which students try to reconcile their past high school academic successes with their current college...
Overcoming the First Semester Slump: 3 Moves to Enhance College Student Performance
In the initial 2013 release of my article "Why Good Students Do ‘Bad’ in College," I explored the often misunderstood reasons behind college students' underperformance. This post shifted the focus from the stereotype of lazy students to a more nuanced understanding of...
The Spookiest Test Question: What Terrifies Students the Most?
Dive into the mysterious realms of academic testing this Halloween. Discover the one question that haunts students the most! Unveil the secrets in our latest Halloween-themed article. 🎃📚
7 STEPS FOR POST SPRING BREAK STUDENT SUCCESS
Click on the clip to view the full video on YouTube. Students who are falling behind in college are far more capable of success than they may believe. As educators, parents, and casual observers of human behavior, we often see these students’ potential even as they...
METACOGNITION MATTERS (PART 1) | THE LEARNWELL PROJECTS
Click on the clip to view the full video on YouTube.Ever wonder why some individuals seem in control of their thinking, learning, and performance in school? They are the efficient studiers, the quick learners, and eventually the high performers in the workplace. They...
METACOGNITION MATTERS (PART 2) | THE LEARNWELL PROJECTS
Click on the clip to view the full video on YouTube.In part 1 of Metacognition Matters, I focused on metacognition and metacognitive knowledge. And we learned about three students whose belief that they aren’t good writers came from very different metacognitive...
GO FOR GREEN CONSTRUCTIVE LEARNING PART 1 | THE LEARNWELL PROJECTS
Click on the clip to view the full video on YouTube.Students spend months preparing for the exam. They take copious notes, study in groups, and log many individual study hours. Yet none of their efforts lead to the exam results they expect. They feel frustrated and...
GO FOR GREEN CONSTRUCTIVE LEARNING PART 2 | THE LEARNWELL PROJECTS
Click on the video to watch the entire short lesson on YouTube.The purpose of the Go for Green constructive learning method is to help students strategically use their thinking skills to transform course content and course topics into more valuable course learning...
THE GO FOR GREEN CONSTRUCTIVE LEARNING METHOD: PART 3
Click on the clip to view the full video on YouTube.Remember this simple phrase: yellow and blue make green. In other words, the primary colors yellow and blue must be combined to produce the secondary color green. The yellow represents the modes of thinking students...
CASE STUDY: METACOGNITIVE LEARNING OUTCOMES IMPROVE STUDENT SUCCESS AND COURSE EVALUATIONS
Dr. Helen, an English professor at a historically Black college, worked diligently to create what she believed were sound learning outcomes. Unfortunately, her only motivation for creating those outcomes was to fulfill an institutional requirement. Once they were...
TIME FOR AN ACADEMIC LABOR CHECKUP — Boosting Student Success
The time has come for students to do a self-evaluation of their academic labor. Believe it or not, students have been in class for about six weeks. If you are on a semester schedule, this means that a third of the semester is already in the books! By this time, each...
HOW TO IMPROVE MATH COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES
Systems are designed to produce predictable results. In fact, expecting different results from the same system is a recipe for insanity. The relationship between professors and students is an academic system in which their interactions produce particular course...
COLLEGE SUCCESS FUNDAMENTALS
High school doesn’t always prepare students for college success. It tends to focus on studying content, whereas college focuses on producing outcomes. Some new thinking skills and a return to fundamentals can set students on the right track.THE ABCS OF ACADEMIC...
STUDENT SUCCESS IN STEM FIELDS
Professors guide their classes through complex sequences, rules, and steps in the problem-solving process. Students then solve the problems along with them. They leave class feeling confident that they can solve similar problems on their own. But then they struggle...
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