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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806959403321

Titolo

How college students succeed : making meaning across disciplinary perspectives / / edited by Nicholas A. Bowman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Sterling, Virginia : , : Stylus Publishing, LLC, , 2022

©2022

ISBN

1-00-344515-2

1-003-44515-2

1-64267-134-7

Edizione

[First edition.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (ix, 313 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

378.1/69130973

Soggetti

College dropouts - United States - Prevention

College attendance - United States

Academic achievement - United States

Interdisciplinary approach in education

Achievement

Academic achievement

College student orientation

Critical thinking

Study skills

Success

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- HOW COLLEGE STUDENTS SUCCEED: Making Meaning Across Disciplinary Perspectives -- COPYRIGHT © 2022 BY STYLUS PUBLISHING, LLC -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Learning from Disciplinary Perspectives on College Student Success -- Chapter 2: Cataloguing Institutional Retention Efforts and Their Empirical Grounding -- Chapter 3: Theories, Findings, and Implications from Higher Education Research on Student Success -- Chapter 4: Public Policy in Higher Education -- Chapter 5: Behavioral Economics of Higher Education

Chapter 6: Social Psychological Approaches to College Student Success



-- Chapter 7: STEM Student Success -- Chapter 8: Inequality in Higher Education -- Chapter 9: Critical and Poststructural Considerations for College Student Success -- Chapter 10: An Interdisciplinary Theory of College Student Success -- Chapter 11: Using the Interdisciplinary Theory of Student Success -- Editor and Contributor Biographies -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

"The purpose of this book is to bring together in a single volume the extensive knowledge on college student success. It includes seven chapters from authors who each synthesize the literature from their own field of study, or perspective"--