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Miriam a freshman Calculus student at Louisiana State University made 37.5% on her first exam but 83% and 93% on the next two. Matt a first year General Chemistry student at the University of Utah scored 65% and 55% on his first two exams and 95% on his thirdThese are representative of thousands of students who decisively improved their grades by acting on the advice described in this book.

What is preventing your students from performing according to expectations? Saundra McGuire offers a simple but profound answer: If you teach students how to learn and give them simple straightforward strategies to use they can significantly increase their learning and performance.

For over a decade Saundra McGuire has been acclaimed for her presentations and workshops on metacognition and student learning because the tools and strategies she shares have enabled faculty to facilitate dramatic improvements in student learning and success. This book encapsulates the model and ideas she has developed in the past fifteen years?? ideas that are being adopted by an increasing number of faculty with considerable effe