Key's learning styles coverage gives students tools to help them "learn to learn" in any situation. Research has indicated that professors want to do more than merely make students aware of their learing preferences. When they teach about learning styles, they also want to teach students to use what they learn. Keys' coverage does exactly that. The vast majority of our focus group participants examined Keys to Success in depth and rted our learning styles coverage as a significant comparative advantage, noting that it fosters "student responsibility for learning." In fact, among participating instructors who used competing texts (such as Ellis, Gardner, and Santrock), nearly all (92%) preferred the Keys coverage of this topic.
What is the Keys Difference?
Keys to Success focuses on two approaches to answer the question of how students lear:
-Multiple Pathways to Learning, based on Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences theory. This approach assesses potential and strength in eight areas of ability. Everyone has some level of ability in each of the intelligences. -The Personality Spectrum, based on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. This approach helps students understand how they respond to the world around them, including people, events, and information. Helping students become aware of learning preferences isn't enough, however. Keys demonstrates--in chapter 3 and throughout--how students' learning preferences relate to every subject and live skill.
How Can You Teach with it?
Online faculty training: Get online and join author Joyce Bishop, developer of our in-text assessments and an expert in how students learn, for training in this area. Her creative ideas have motivated thousands of students--and now her ideas can motivate you. Additional exercises: Chapter 3 of the Instructor's Manual offers additional class-tested exercises keyed to each individual intelligence. Power Points: Included in the Power Point package are chapter 3 visuals. These visuals clearly illustrate, and allow you to demonstrate, the methods for completing and scoring each assessment. DVD and video support: Keys offers a Learning Styles and Self-Awareness DVD (also available in VHS format) for your use ing the classroom Test Item File and the Companion Website: Both these ancillaries assess your student' understanding and appliction of learning styles material with essay and obective questions. Online Learning Assessments: We offer access to the textbook assessments Multiple Pathways to Learning and Personality Spectrum through our online course management system, under the Student Learning Resources section.
Keys to Success
Building Analytical, Creative and Practical Skills
Keys to Business Communication
Success in College, Career and Life
Keys to Effective Learning
Developing Powerful Habits of Mind
Keys to College Studying
Becoming an Active Thinker
Keys to Nursing Success
Keys to Business Success
Keys to Engineering Success
Keys to Science Success
Keys to Liberal Arts Success
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Joyce holds a Ph.D. in psychology and has won numerous teaching awards. She is in charge of Developmental Studies at Golden West College in Southern California.
