What the Best College Students Do

What the Best College Students Do
Author :
Publisher : Belknap Press
Total Pages : 300
Release :
ISBN-10 : 9780674066649
ISBN-13 : 0674066642
Rating : 4/5 (642 Downloads)

Book Synopsis What the Best College Students Do by : Ken Bain

Download or read book What the Best College Students Do written by Ken Bain and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 2012-08-27 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of the best-selling What the Best College Teachers Do is back with more humane, doable, and inspiring help, this time for students who want to get the most out of college—and every other educational enterprise, too. The first thing they should do? Think beyond the transcript. The creative, successful people profiled in this book—college graduates who went on to change the world we live in—aimed higher than straight A’s. They used their four years to cultivate habits of thought that would enable them to grow and adapt throughout their lives. Combining academic research on learning and motivation with insights drawn from interviews with people who have won Nobel Prizes, Emmys, fame, or the admiration of people in their field, Ken Bain identifies the key attitudes that distinguished the best college students from their peers. These individuals started out with the belief that intelligence and ability are expandable, not fixed. This led them to make connections across disciplines, to develop a “meta-cognitive” understanding of their own ways of thinking, and to find ways to negotiate ill-structured problems rather than simply looking for right answers. Intrinsically motivated by their own sense of purpose, they were not demoralized by failure nor overly impressed with conventional notions of success. These movers and shakers didn’t achieve success by making success their goal. For them, it was a byproduct of following their intellectual curiosity, solving useful problems, and taking risks in order to learn and grow.


What the Best College Students Do Related Books

What the Best College Students Do
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Ken Bain
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-08-27 - Publisher: Belknap Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The author of the best-selling What the Best College Teachers Do is back with more humane, doable, and inspiring help, this time for students who want to get th
What the Best College Students Do
Language: en
Pages: 300
Authors: Ken Bain
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-07-16 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

The author of the best-selling What the Best College Teachers Do is back with humane, doable, and inspiring help for students who want to get the most out of th
What the Best College Teachers Do
Language: en
Pages: 218
Authors: Ken Bain
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011-09-01 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

What makes a great teacher great? Who are the professors students remember long after graduation? This book, the conclusion of a fifteen-year study of nearly on
Making the Most of College
Language: en
Pages: 253
Authors: Richard J. Light
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-05-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

Why do some students make the most of college, while others struggle and look back on years of missed deadlines and missed opportunities? What choices can stude
Super Courses
Language: en
Pages: 304
Authors: Ken Bain
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2021-03-09 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

DOWNLOAD EBOOK

From the bestselling author of What the Best College Teachers Do, the story of a new breed of amazingly innovative courses that inspire students and improve lea