Straight A's Are Not Enough: Breakthroughs in Learning for College Students, by Judy Fishel
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Making good grades - even straight A's - is a fine goal if that's what you need or want, but far too many straight A students memorize facts, do well on exams, and then soon forget everything. What a terrible waste of time, effort and money! The book begins with three basic questions: 1. Why do so many students work ward, make good grades, but quickly forget what they "learned?" 2. How can you learn more, understand deeply, and remember longer? 3. How can you get a great education? But these are more than hypothetical questions. They are all answered in the conclusion to the book. In this book, you will discover : A Flexible Time Management Research-based learning strategies Test preparation without cramming Mental processing - a new more effective definition of study Strategies to organize information, develop thinking skills, and long-lasting memory Ways to strengthen concentration and willpower In addition, the book includes a section on what employers want most with chapters on critical thinking, analytical reasoning, and complex problem solving. To make the book more exciting to read, there are 54 illustrations including three comic strips, many stories, metaphors, and helpful examples. This book is radically different from other books on study skills and will help students choose what they want or need to learn and take charge of their own education. They might even re-discover the excitement of learning. In addition to the book, there is a website, www.choose-learning,.com with blogs, study tips, monthly contests, and a way for students to email the author with their questions. While most questions will be answered on a Q&A page, personal questions will be answered with a personal email. In other words, this author, who wishes she'd had a book like this when she was a student, is working hard to help students to get the best possible education.
Straight A's Are Not Enough: Breakthroughs in Learning for College Students, by Judy Fishel- Amazon Sales Rank: #1164444 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-05-19
- Released on: 2015-05-19
- Format: Kindle eBook
About the Author Judy Fishel was a seventh grader when she first asked the question why she worked so hard, made good grades, but learned so little. She struggled with this question through high school, college and grad schools, and for years as an award-winner teacher. Here she shares her discoveries and insights with you.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. A Motivated Students Dream: To Achieve Improved Results in Less Time and With Less Effort. By gayle h. swift Straight A’s Are Not Enough posits three questions: Why do motivated students rapidly forget the material they worked diligently to learn? How can students increase the depth, volume and permanence of material learned? How do students acquire an education not just a transcript of grades earned?The purpose of education is to develop critical thinkers and acquire employment skills, internalize a problem-solving mentality and to inspire people to contribute to the world. With the cost of education soaring, it makes great sense to improve the efficiency with which one accomplished these goals. (Think in terms of both time and money.)One major focus of the book is to learn how to learn. The book overflows with strategies that dissect the learning process, identify inefficiencies, and debunk long-standing assumptions about study skills. Well-researched and exquisitely organized, Straight A’s Are Not Enough is the answer to a motivated student’s prayer: achieve improved results in less time and with less effort.Learning to learn is only part of the benefit this book provides; it offers many strategies for increasing organization, presentation and communication skills—all of which are integral to success not only in school, but also in the world after graduation.Like the target audience of this book, I enjoyed excelling in school and invested countless hours to ensure mastery (read grades) as well as the proverbial liberal arts education. Let me repeat, I invested countless hours studying. Where was this book when I was in school? All my life I have struggled with organization. This book dazzled me with its depth and practicality. After reading it, I realized how horribly inefficient my approach to learning was. It includes a smorgasbord of approaches from which students can select the strategies that best suit their learning styles. It offers ideas for everyone.Straight A’s Are Not Enough holds value even for people no longer in school; its approaches can assist anyone who is interested in continuing to learn. I would also suggest that it would make an excellent basis for a high school class that prepares students who are headed off to college. Our education system does precious little to address this process. The material covered in this book could help students immensely.I was given an advance reading copy of this book. The opinions offered in this critique are honest and without bias. Gayle H. Swift, ABC, Adoption & Me
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Highly Motivating Book: Get Your Straight 'A's & Actually Retain What You Learned By Erika Borsos Judy Fishel is obviously a person who loves learning and this book is a true masterpiece of proven strategies and techniques which will help the motivated student achieve this very noble and worthy goal. This book is written for all learners but it will primarily help college students and adult learners and high school students as well. The impetus for writing the book arose around seventh grade when the author was bothered by the fact she studied hard and made good grades but recalled so little of the subjects she studied. The quest and interest in learning in order to retain information has remained with the author. She did a lot of reading and research over many years and gleaned validated results from peer reviewed journals in psychology and the function of the brain which she has organized into a step by step approach and guide to developing learning skills for retaining knowledge. The author has four degrees: one BA and three MAs in various subjects: philosophy, School Guidance, Biology, and English as a Second Language and Cross Cultural Studies. She has also attended 18 colleges and universities, most of which were official courses to enhance and provide credentials toward her profession and others were unofficial courses taken with the permission of professors during which she attended class, completed all requirements and took all the tests but which were not for official credit. She has proven herself to be a life long learner and in this book proves to the reader she is a powerful and effective teacher who shares proven strategies to help you succeed at achieving your goals.What I liked most about this book is how the author broke down learning into steps, created an organized system of techniques which are applied to whatever subject or course on takes and all of it is based on the premise: "choose to learn with intention". Also I loved how the author interspersed results of valid learning studies and explained how students responded under different conditions. Two studies which stood out were these: the first, the classic study by the psychologist Dr. Harry Harlow a behavioral psychologist who tested rhesus monkeys to see how fast they could solve puzzles. The monkeys played with the puzzles with focus, determination and what looked like enjoyment. However, when the monkeys were given raisins as rewards for solving the puzzles they seemed to lose interest. Dr. Harlow explained the findings as follows, 'The performance of the task provided intrinsic reward.' The second study was twenty years later when Edward Deci showed that college students who were offered money for solving puzzles did the job with great interest and initially for the monetary reward but then they lost interest. However, the students who were not paid to solve the puzzles with a reward kept working harder and continued their efforts. The conclusion was that external reward systems are not the best way to motivate students to learn. Another unique study was done at Göteborg University in Sweden where students were given an article to read and told they would be tested on the material. The researchers asked the students how they had gone about reading the article. Some used the approach of reading to memorize facts and information they thought they would be test on. Others read to understand the material and they read with the intent to explain the material to others. The results: when tested again weeks later, the first group did not do well on the test, the second group did much better and retained the information much longer. The researchers described these three approaches to learning: "shallow", "deep" and "strategic". People use all three approaches at different times, sometimes they combine approaches depending on need. This book is about learning how to use each type of approach with the best results possible and how to succeed in reaching your learning goals.The whole book is devoted to how to become an effective learner and how to study with purpose and focus. This means taking notes with intention, setting aside regular and consistent scheduled study time and managing your time effectively which allows for "flex time.". The author discusses concepts such as willpower, resilience and concentration. She addresses reading skills such as skimming, relating information to what is known, creating mental images, rereading and testing yourself. She explains the K-W-L approach: K = what do you know about the topic, W= what do you want to know or need to know, and L = what have you learned, in other words, did you understand what you read or the new concepts. The author provides a good description of the ten ways of thinking which are: scientific, mathematical, analysis, synthesis, critical thinking, creative thinking, decision making, evaluation, problem solving, and strategic thinking. She also discusses the concept of mindset where some learners give up quickly with the belief that being smart or a good learner is a *fixed* thing and they possess only a certain amount of ability. In the beginning, they were excited and successfully mastered puzzles but when the puzzles became increasingly more difficult, they gave up instead of steadily pursuing the solution. Other students or learners possessed a *growth* mindset where they worked on gradually more difficult puzzles and kept trying despite set backs and failures with the belief they would eventually get better and develop a solution. Received book as gift with option to review. The author addresses strategies for using and enhancing memory. She includes a chapter on "what employers want most" and another one which describes analytical reasoning, using either numerical or verbal data. The last chapter is about the five levels of complex problem solving. I found this book thorough, research based, organized and well written. I am quite convinced it delivers the goods! Erika Borsos [pepper flower]
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Everything To Do To Learn & To Get High Grades Too By ChristineMM I received a review copy of this from the author in exchange for an honest review on my blog. I decided to post it on Amazon as well. To explain the title, it is written to the high school student who went through the system and thought they were doing well enough in their job as student by getting A grades. The intent is to show how even if you got A grades in high school you may not know enough to do well in the college way of "doing school". But to explain we need to back up to say that a point made early on is that the real reason to go to high school and college is to learn and to grow and the grades should be secondary, but many students can get by with As without really learning (or caring about what they learn) and without even having all the best skills in various areas (ie study skills, time management, research skills, writing skills, communication skills with teachers/ professors etc.).So, this book crams in a ton of information about how to be the best in all areas that allow a person to learn and get the most out of their college learning experience. Here's the thing: to learn all new processes or to improve upon existing mediocre skills a person has to really want to make a change. Just as with self-help books you can't just want the end goal and success without doing the work it takes to get you to that goal. So the first important thing to know about this wonderful resource is the student has to be internally motivated and to want to know this stuff. You can give this to a student and wish for the best but if they don't want to know it and make changes to do what it takes this good wisdom will not be utilized. You can hand an overweight person a book on weight loss but if they won't change their diet and exercise regime they will not lose weight.Fishel gives a lot of info here, so much it might have been broken down into multiple books on single topics. This book is not filled with fluff, Fishel gets to the point and doesn't repeat herself or use other word stretching devices. This is all great for college but honestly the info can also be used by high school students if they were open minded enough to read this and do the suggestions. Some of the topics covered are approaching learning, goal setting, time management, developing willpower, resilience and concentration, improving reading skills, note taking, college research, speaking skills, writing skills, test prep (not cramming), critical thinking skills, analytical reasoning, improving memory, verbal "organization" (making an argument and pursuading), visual organization (timelines, concept maps, matrix charts etc) and different kinds of thinking (problem soling, scientific method, creativing thinking etc.) and some about what employers want and getting the education you want and need.This book blew me away in its scope and its brevity for getting a ton of information communicated in an easy to understand manner. It's systematic and clearly written. It requires a motivated student who actually cares about learning and getting the most out of their college (or high school) education. This book teaches things I figured out on my own and lots of other things I wish I knew when I was eighteen. This has the info I wish my teen boys (high school sophomore and college freshman) would want to know enough to read this book. This book is a treasure trove for the motivated learner and I rate it 5 stars = I Love It. Now if only my boys would be open minded enough to take in this wisdom and utilize it.
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