What the Best College Students Do
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"The 'best' students are curious risk-takers who make connections across disciplines. By following those instincts-rather than simply chasing 'success'-the best students achieved it...A wonderful exploration of excellence."-Fortune
"Skillfully weaves together some of the best research about effective learning strategies with moving stories about remarkable life-long learners. Some of them had…
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1 author picked What the Best College Students Do as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
When I heard Ken Bain give a talk on what the best college teachers do, his arguments so impressed me that I changed my syllabus that night before the start of classes the next day.
This book follows a similar model of drawing on interviews to search for best practices. In this case, Bain culls his best practices from interviews with successful college students. From a student’s perspective, reading the book is a bit like speed-dialing peer advice.
Bain devotes an entire chapter to working through failure and spends considerable time on deep versus superficial learning.
From Mark's list on books for students about to enter college.
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