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41) Welcome to College Your Career Starts Now!: A Practical Guide to Academic and Professional Success
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For every student, both a successful transition into college, and the subsequent transition from college to career, are critically important. Written by an author who has had long experience in both the corporate and academic worlds, "Welcome to College - Your Career Starts Now!" is the ideal book to help guide students through both transitions, while giving good advice on how to integrate the college years into the process of determining one's career....
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All the Advice You Need to Get In To the College You Want! Getting in to your dream college has never been more competitive. Swamped with applications, admissions officers spend 10-20 minutes on each, looking for reasons to say no. It's crucial that students make it easy for colleges to say yes. In his new book, Brand U, renowned college admissions adviser David Montesano shows you exactly how to position yourself as the kind of applicant colleges...
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Put yourself in Palo Alto with this in-depth guide to the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Learn about the school's new curriculum, ties with the Silicon Valley, entrepreneurial focus, special programs, student clubs and strong alumni network. Whether you are just starting your research, already writing your application essays, preparing for an interview or deciding which offer of admission to accept, you will find the Clear Admit School Guides,...
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La práctica profesional es un lugar de encuentro entre el docente, en cuanto supervisor, y el estudiante, en el rol de practicante. Para el estudiante de psicología, quien se prepara a lo largo del pregrado para afrontar de manera integral distintas realidades y necesidades de su contexto, es además un espacio de autorreconocimiento, donde confluyen tensiones y experiencias nuevas.
Dilemas y confrontaciones del estudiante de último año frente...
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La educación superior en Colombia está atravesando por un momento interesante: mientras las expectativas sociales en torno a su rol en la sociedad crecen y todavía se debate su financiamiento, la irrupción de la globalización en la educación superior trae nuevos y más complejos retos. Desde el reciente intento fallido de reformar la Ley 30 de 1992, el tema de la reforma educativa ha tomado un nuevo aire en el país. Por esta razón, el Center...
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The education system provides a great way to peer into the potential of the human mind, but it's come up short in unleashing it. Marquis R. Nave, who has taught English at the college level for 10 years, has discovered that students minds are the center of education and that their ideas about their mental capabilities is crucial to developing a new education. Students who don't believe in the creative power of their minds end up being trained to do...
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The Ancillary Army. Freeway Flyers. Roads Scholars. Turnpike Teachers. These are some of the nicknames given to part-time college teachers. They may teach one or two courses at a single institution, or, in some cases, they may teach multiple courses at multiple institutions. Often their office consists of the front seat of their car, and their desk is a cardboard box. Their lunch is whatever they can grab at McDonalds while zipping through traffic...
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In 1964, when author J. Kirk Casselman applied to Yale College, more than five thousand other secondary school students also applied for admission to one of the 1,300 places in the Yale Class of 1968. Of those applicants, 1,569 were offered admission, for an acceptance ratio of approximately 30 percent. Today, thirty thousand students apply for admission for the same number of places, for an acceptance ratio of just 7 percent. The drastic change in...
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Este es un libro de autoayuda para estudiantes de colegio y universidad que se enfoca en habilidades psicológicas y de aprendizaje; está respaldado por más de 300 fuentes de información y más de 20 años de experiencia en psicología. [Estudiar Vs aprender: La psicología detrás del éxito estudiantil] Si quieres maximizar tu aprendizaje y éxito en la universidad, necesitas excelentes habilidades de pensamiento, habilidades de aprendizaje y...
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El texto introduce al alumno al mundo de las finanzas. Proporciona una serie de herramientas que el permite el cálculo de resultados financieros, tanto de inversión como de financiamiento, para una toma razonable de decisiones. El libro está dividido en siete capítulos didácticos que incluyen casos y ejercicios de aplicación.
En el primer capítulo se explican las instituciones y funciones que conforman el sistema financiero. Durante los capítulos...
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Christian higher education needs something richer and deeper. Faith-based institutions yearn for more than business as usual, and Echoes of Insight invites you to listen again to older, forgotten, and perhaps even ignored voices. Designed to stimulate conversation among colleagues, Echoes of Insight offers brief summaries of several thought-provoking writers from the last century and encourages a new, vigorous conversation about Christian higher education....
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This book presents a compilation of the authors techniques used over a 30-year teaching career for mentoring, encouraging, and chastising (when needed) his students to elicit better performance from each student. The techniques often involve a combination of tender loving care, when deserved, and stern hard-nosed approach (when warranted). The book presents the authors famous equation of success, the dreaded recipe for an F, and general guide for...
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En todos los estudios de opinión, se demuestra que la educación es la prioridad fundamental de nuestra ciudadanía, ya que se considera una palanca fundamental de transformación personal, comunitaria y también, de manera especial, de cohesión social en nuestro país. Este libro, "Ideas en educación III. Evolución de una reforma", se orienta a actualizar los contenidos y la evolución e implementación de las leyes que se han aprobado en los...
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You've been accepted to college, you know what state it's in, and you sorta-kinda-almost know your possible major. But how should you schedule your classes? How do you handle your roommate's hoarder habits? Why are your clothes suddenly getting tighter? Kollege Knowledge to the rescue! This concise collection of advice is a girl's ultimate guide to successfully adapting to the first year of higher ed. From navigating a typical college day and resolving...
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Immerse yourself in everything that Wharton has to offer! Get the details on the program's hundreds of electives, recruiting success and abundance of professional clubs. Whether you are just starting your research, already writing your application essays, preparing for an interview or deciding which offer of admission to accept, you will find the Clear Admit School Guides, with their reliable, centralized information, to be a valuable and time-saving...
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This book is an extension of the author's one topic of PhD research, i.e. motivation theories and its application to the teaching profession. It can give readers the dual benefit of theoretical knowledge of motivation and existing theories of motivation in detail. This is an attempt to put all the theories in one book. Plus an analysis of these theories has also been made relating to its application to the teaching profession in colleges in India....
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This e-guide is designed to give parents embarking on the college process a concise overview of the essentials. It addresses Financial Matters, Test-taking and the Application Process itself. It includes all the information you need to have at your fingertips from the beginning of high school till the acceptance letters come rolling in. The author answers your questions before you ask them, in a clear and direct fashion, and allows you to get a leg...
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This guidebook uses a combination of pragmatism, humor, and original data to respond to knowledge gaps commonly experienced by students in non-traditional, accelerated, and online degree programs. Basic information useful for creating a thesis proposal and conducting an independent study is provided. Themes include: choosing a topic, data sources, IRB review, asking questions, stating hypotheses, sample size estimation, randomization, statistical...
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The definitive guide to the Columbia Business School MBA program. Presents details of the school's core curriculum, domestic and international exchange opportunities, on-campus recruiting process, popular professors and access to business leaders in NYC. Whether you are just starting your research, already writing your application essays, preparing for an interview or deciding which offer of admission to accept, you will find the Clear Admit School...
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Gender in the Political Science Classroom looks at the roles gender plays in teaching and learning in the traditionally male-dominated field of political science. The contributors to this collection bring a new perspective to investigations of gender issues in the political behavior literature and feminist pedagogy by uniting them with the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL). The volume offers a balance between the theoretical and the practical,...
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