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Habits of Mind: Designing Courses for Student Success
Habits of Mind
  • Julia M. Gossard, Utah State University
  • Chris Babits, Utah State University
  • Jennifer Grewe, Utah State University
  • Cree Taylor, Utah State University
  • Doris McGonagill, Utah State University
  • Missy Kofoed, Utah State University
  • Leonard Henderson, Utah State University
  • Travis Thurston, Utah State University
  • Mehmet Soyer, Utah State University
  • Gonca Soyer, Utah State University
  • Josie Tollefson, Utah State University
  • Nichelle Frank, Utah State University - Eastern
  • Matthew D. LaPlante, Utah State University
  • Jessie Koltz, Utah State University
  • Jenifer Evers, Utah State University - Moab
  • Kimberly Hiatt, Utah State University - Blanding
  • Kelsey Bushman, Utah State University - Blanding
  • Heather Lyman, Utah State University - Blanding
  • Sarah Gosney, Utah State University
  • Melanie Chambers, Utah State University
  • Sharon Lyman, Utah State University
  • Antje R. H. Graul, Utah State University
  • Ayse Sapci, Utah State University
  • Raymond Veon, Utah State University
  • Jason Twede, Utah State University - Tooele
  • Rachel Robison-Greene, Utah State University
  • Sarah Tulane, Utah State University
  • Joyce Kinkead, Utah State University
  • John Draeger
  • Jill K. Singer
  • Ekaterina Arshavskaya, Utah State University
  • Rachel Turner, Utah State University - Eastern
  • Karin deJonge-Kannan, Utah State University
Document Type
Book - Full Text
Editor
Julia M. Gossard & Chris Babits
Publisher
Utah State University
Publication Date
1-1-2023
Creative Commons License
Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0
Abstract

Although content knowledge remains at the heart of college teaching and learning, forward-thinking instructors recognize that we must also provide 21st-century college students with transferable skills (sometimes called portable intellectual abilities) to prepare them for their futures (Vazquez, 2020; Ritchhart, 2015; Venezia & Jaeger, 2013; Hazard, 2012). To “grow their capacity as efficacious thinkers to navigate and thrive in the face of unprecedented change” (Costa et al., 2023), students must learn and improve important study skills and academic dispositions throughout their educational careers. If we do not focus on skills-building in college courses, students will not be prepared for the challenges that await them after they leave institutions of higher education. If students are not prepared for these postsecondary education challenges, then it is fair to say that college faculty have failed them.

Citation Information
Julia M. Gossard, Chris Babits, Jennifer Grewe, Cree Taylor, et al.. Habits of Mind: Designing Courses for Student Success. (2023) p. 1 - 271
Available at: http://works.bepress.com/mehmetsoyer/32/