This book turns the traditional approach to student success on its head by examining the learning habits of successful students based on what they have told us about their learning strategies, on what they do to succeed in college, and on the teaching practices they think best foster their learning. This approach is in stark contrast to most recent studies of learning at the college level which focus on what students need to do to succeed, but are written from the point of view of "experts" who provide advice to struggling students.

The evolution of the learning habits project : methods and procedures / Bettina J. Huber -- Who are the learning habits students and why do they persist? / Bettina J. Huber -- Being the first to go to college / Steven Graves -- The role of gender in fostering persistence and effective learning habits / Bettina J. Huber -- Campus diversity and college learning through the eyes of learning habits students / Bettina J. Huber -- Reading with understanding : what do college students say? / Elizabeth Berry and Linda S. Bowen -- Gains in written communication between the freshman and junior years / Irene L. Clark and Bettina J. Huber -- PowerPoint fatigue and the rabbit hole of Internet stuff : students and technology / Donal O'Sullivan -- Sliding into learning : the power of Webnotes / Carrie Rothstein-Fisch and Sharon M. Klein -- Factors influencing academic help seeking by college students / Mark Stevens and Peter Mora -- Self-regulated learning habits / Daisy Lemus, Mary-Pat Stein, and Whitney Scott -- Encouraging students to be thoughtful about their learning / Bettina J. Huber -- What did you learn? What are you gonna do about it? -- Appendix 1. Participants in the Learning Habits Seminar -- Appendix 2. Master list of questions posed during face-to-face learning habits interviews -- Appendix 3. Questions posed at project registration and in all end-of-term assignments.