COL 103 Chapters 1-5 QUESTIONS &
ANSWERS(GRADED A+)
Collaborative Assignment - ANSWERA learning activity in which you work and solve
problems with your classmates (A high-impact practice).
Capstone Courses and Project - ANSWERA course or experience taken during the
senior year that requires students to reflect on what they learned in all their courses
and create a project of some sort that integrates and applies that knowledge (A high-
impact practice).
Campus-wide Common Intellectual Experience - ANSWERA program in which
students take required "common-core" courses, participate in a required learning
community, or engage in other shared experiences such as a "common reading" (A
high-impact practice).
Undergraduate Research - ANSWERA program that gives you the opportunity to
participate in systematic investigation and research working one-on-one with a
faculty member.
Writing-intensive courses - ANSWERCourses across the curriculum that engage
students in multiple forms of writing for different audiences. This textbook offers
various writing-intensive course (A high-impact practice).
Higher-level Thinking - ANSWER- reflecting on prior knowledge
- taking additional mental action on it
- evaluating validity
- integrating new ideas
7 major forms of higher-level thinking - ANSWER- analysis
- synthesis
- application
- multi-dimensional
- balanced thinking
- critical thinking
- creative thinking
Creative thinking - ANSWERgenerating new answers and solutions
Critical thinking - ANSWERevaluating the quality of answers and solutions we
generate
Process of Brainstorming - ANSWER- divergent thinking
- creative thinking that allows you to come up with new and different ideas
Convergent thinking - ANSWERnarrow down ideas, evaluate each of them to their
effectiveness
,Using High Level thinking skills - ANSWER- connect ideas acquired in class; related
to book reading
- listen to lectures/complete reading
- periodically reflect on thinking process
- develop HLT habits by asking yourself HLT questions
Strategies for developing HLT - ANSWER- flexible
- experimental
- be mobile
- write things down
- seek diversity
- take breaks
- reorganize the problem
- be persistent
internal locus of control - ANSWERthe perception that you control your own fate
external locus of control - ANSWERthe perception that chance or outside forces
beyond your personal control determine your fate.
procrastination - ANSWERPutting off until tomorrow what you can do today.
academic calendar - ANSWERThe college's calendar that provides important dates
throughout the semester, including due dates for tuition payments and dropping
classes
First-year Seminars - ANSWERThe course in which you find yourself now, designed
to prepare you for your college experience (A high-impact practice).
Global Learning or Diversity Experiences - ANSWERCourses and programs in which
you explore cultures, life experiences, and worldviews different from your own (A
high-impact practice).
Internships - ANSWERDirect experience in a work setting often related to your
career interests.
Learning Communities - ANSWERA program in which students take two or more
"linked" courses with a group of other students, allowing them to work closely with
each other and with instructors (A high-impact practice).
Service-learning - ANSWERUnpaid volunteer service that is embedded in courses
across the curriculum (A high-impact practice).
prioritize - ANSWERTo arrange items in order of importance
overextended - ANSWERhaving too much to do given the resources available to you
punctuality - ANSWERbeing on time
, College - ANSWERan established process designed by our society to further formal
education
Most important college skill - ANSWERHow to keep learning throughout life
What college is about - ANSWERabout thinking and helping understanding of how to
become a critical thinker
Why be a graduate - ANSWEREarn more money, more stable, don't do drugs and
such, invest more in their children academic career
College vs. High school - ANSWERNew found freedom that needs proper
management
Purpose - ANSWERBeing in college.................. vs............... What am I doing here?
Returning Students - ANSWEREarn higher grades and experience a lack of freedom
College Discoveries - ANSWERWill help me determine how I want to live my life
Statistics - ANSWERAdvanced Degree: < 60,000
Bachelor's: < 50,000
Associate's: < 40,000
High school: < 30,000
No graduate: < 20,000
"American Dream" - ANSWERCollege allows for an equal playing field for students
from different backgrounds to allow all Americans to reach their dream
Which of the following is NOT a way to get off to the right start in college?
A. Get involved with campus activities
B. Find an off-campus job and work as many hours as you can.
C. Keep a calendar and follow it consistently.
D. Speak up in class.
Page 19. - ANSWERB. Find an off-campus job and work as many hours as you can.
_________ from your instructors can be helpful to your learning.
A. Criticism
B. A failing grade
C. Invitations to out-of-class activities
D. None of the above
Page 19. - ANSWERA. Criticism
If you _______, you are communicating to your instructors and fellow students that
you do not think class is important.
A. bring a laptop to class
B. are frequently late
C. Sit up front in your lecture courses
D. None of the above
Page 19. - ANSWERB. are frequently late
ANSWERS(GRADED A+)
Collaborative Assignment - ANSWERA learning activity in which you work and solve
problems with your classmates (A high-impact practice).
Capstone Courses and Project - ANSWERA course or experience taken during the
senior year that requires students to reflect on what they learned in all their courses
and create a project of some sort that integrates and applies that knowledge (A high-
impact practice).
Campus-wide Common Intellectual Experience - ANSWERA program in which
students take required "common-core" courses, participate in a required learning
community, or engage in other shared experiences such as a "common reading" (A
high-impact practice).
Undergraduate Research - ANSWERA program that gives you the opportunity to
participate in systematic investigation and research working one-on-one with a
faculty member.
Writing-intensive courses - ANSWERCourses across the curriculum that engage
students in multiple forms of writing for different audiences. This textbook offers
various writing-intensive course (A high-impact practice).
Higher-level Thinking - ANSWER- reflecting on prior knowledge
- taking additional mental action on it
- evaluating validity
- integrating new ideas
7 major forms of higher-level thinking - ANSWER- analysis
- synthesis
- application
- multi-dimensional
- balanced thinking
- critical thinking
- creative thinking
Creative thinking - ANSWERgenerating new answers and solutions
Critical thinking - ANSWERevaluating the quality of answers and solutions we
generate
Process of Brainstorming - ANSWER- divergent thinking
- creative thinking that allows you to come up with new and different ideas
Convergent thinking - ANSWERnarrow down ideas, evaluate each of them to their
effectiveness
,Using High Level thinking skills - ANSWER- connect ideas acquired in class; related
to book reading
- listen to lectures/complete reading
- periodically reflect on thinking process
- develop HLT habits by asking yourself HLT questions
Strategies for developing HLT - ANSWER- flexible
- experimental
- be mobile
- write things down
- seek diversity
- take breaks
- reorganize the problem
- be persistent
internal locus of control - ANSWERthe perception that you control your own fate
external locus of control - ANSWERthe perception that chance or outside forces
beyond your personal control determine your fate.
procrastination - ANSWERPutting off until tomorrow what you can do today.
academic calendar - ANSWERThe college's calendar that provides important dates
throughout the semester, including due dates for tuition payments and dropping
classes
First-year Seminars - ANSWERThe course in which you find yourself now, designed
to prepare you for your college experience (A high-impact practice).
Global Learning or Diversity Experiences - ANSWERCourses and programs in which
you explore cultures, life experiences, and worldviews different from your own (A
high-impact practice).
Internships - ANSWERDirect experience in a work setting often related to your
career interests.
Learning Communities - ANSWERA program in which students take two or more
"linked" courses with a group of other students, allowing them to work closely with
each other and with instructors (A high-impact practice).
Service-learning - ANSWERUnpaid volunteer service that is embedded in courses
across the curriculum (A high-impact practice).
prioritize - ANSWERTo arrange items in order of importance
overextended - ANSWERhaving too much to do given the resources available to you
punctuality - ANSWERbeing on time
, College - ANSWERan established process designed by our society to further formal
education
Most important college skill - ANSWERHow to keep learning throughout life
What college is about - ANSWERabout thinking and helping understanding of how to
become a critical thinker
Why be a graduate - ANSWEREarn more money, more stable, don't do drugs and
such, invest more in their children academic career
College vs. High school - ANSWERNew found freedom that needs proper
management
Purpose - ANSWERBeing in college.................. vs............... What am I doing here?
Returning Students - ANSWEREarn higher grades and experience a lack of freedom
College Discoveries - ANSWERWill help me determine how I want to live my life
Statistics - ANSWERAdvanced Degree: < 60,000
Bachelor's: < 50,000
Associate's: < 40,000
High school: < 30,000
No graduate: < 20,000
"American Dream" - ANSWERCollege allows for an equal playing field for students
from different backgrounds to allow all Americans to reach their dream
Which of the following is NOT a way to get off to the right start in college?
A. Get involved with campus activities
B. Find an off-campus job and work as many hours as you can.
C. Keep a calendar and follow it consistently.
D. Speak up in class.
Page 19. - ANSWERB. Find an off-campus job and work as many hours as you can.
_________ from your instructors can be helpful to your learning.
A. Criticism
B. A failing grade
C. Invitations to out-of-class activities
D. None of the above
Page 19. - ANSWERA. Criticism
If you _______, you are communicating to your instructors and fellow students that
you do not think class is important.
A. bring a laptop to class
B. are frequently late
C. Sit up front in your lecture courses
D. None of the above
Page 19. - ANSWERB. are frequently late
