Habits of Mind:
Designing Courses for Student Success
Edited by Julia M. Gossard & Chris Babits
Although content knowledge remains at the heart of college teaching and learning, instructors have started to recognize that we must also provide twenty-first-century college students with transferable skills to prepare them for their futures (Vazquez, 2020; Hazard, 2012; Ritchhart, 2015; Venezia & Jaeger, 2013). In order to “grow their capacity as efficacious thinkers to navigate and thrive in the face of unprecedent change,” students should learn important skills and strategies throughout their educational careers (Costa, Kallick, and Zmuda, 2022). Utah State University instructors are particularly adept at providing these competencies and skills in introductory, mid, advanced, and even career-preparation courses. Habits of Mind: Designing Courses for Student Success brings together transformative Utah State University instructors to highlight their experiences in developing “Habits of Mind” assignments and frameworks in their courses, ensuring student success along the way.
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As universities continue to diversify their student bodies, transformative college educators must perceive that they share responsibility in teaching skills and academic dispositions—like managing impulsivity, metacognition, and persistence—to students. This is especially crucial for instructors at land-grant universities, as our students come from a wide range of socioeconomic backgrounds and have an impressive diversity of lived experiences.
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Gossard, J. & Babits, C. (Eds.) (2023). Habits of mind: Designing courses for student success. Utah State University. https://doi.org/10.26079/ea86-b331
Online courses provide increased accessibility, convenience, and flexibility as compared to their face-to-face counterparts, and these are often determining factors that lead students to choose this course-delivery method. Simultaneously, the asynchronous course format frequently proves challenging to students with respect to persistence, striving for accuracy, and metacognition.
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