You Are an Upperclassman Working with a Faculty Member in Your

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Essay

You are an upperclassman working with a faculty member in your major discipline. You and the faculty member have been discussing how to help freshmen succeed in their classes. One of the pieces of information that your professor keeps bringing up is that students should spend at least three hours studying outside of class for each hour they spend in class. This amounts to nine hours a week for a typical three-hour course. To that end, you decide to construct a force field analysis on that idea to see how you might help freshmen improve. Construct a force field analysis on the topic described in the story. Once you have constructed the analysis, write a brief statement explaining what strategies you might take to help motivate students to study more.

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Definitions:

Intelligence Tests

Standardized assessments designed to measure human intelligence and cognitive abilities.

Metacognition

Awareness of and control of one’s cognitive abilities.

Cognitive Abilities

Mental capabilities such as learning, thinking, reasoning, problem solving, decision making, remembering, and paying attention.

Screen Out Distractions

The process of eliminating or reducing background noise and irrelevant information to focus on important or primary tasks.