Welcome to the First Year Experience Seminar at Ohio University.

There are many benefits of a college education.

Vocational:
Career satisfaction and increased income

Personal:
Intellectual, social, emotional & physical benefits

National:
Effective citizenship

Familial:
Children’s quality of life

The goal for this course is to equip freshmen with a set of success strategies for their first year of college.

College is a big transition.

The first year sets the tone for the rest of your time in college.

Research on human learning and student development indicates that there are four powerful principles of college success.

Active involvement is not just the amount of personal time devoted to learning, it is also the degree of personal effort or energy that is put into learning.

Here are a few strategies to achieve active involvement:

Studies show that students who use campus resources report higher levels of satisfaction with college and get more out of the college experience (Pascarella & Terenzini, 1991, 2005).

There are many campus resources available to students here at Ohio University.

These include:
Alden Library and the Writing Center
The Career & Leadership Development Center
Campus Recreation

The final steps in the learning process, whether it be learning in the classroom or from experience, are to step back from the process, thoughtfully review it, and connect it to what you already know.

Self-assessment is the process of reflecting on and evaluating your personal characteristics, such as your personality traits, learning habits, and strengths or weaknesses.

-Personal Interests
-Personal Values
-Personal Abilities or Aptitudes
-Learning Habits
-Learning Styles
-Personality Traits

Research indicates that one characteristic of successful learners is that they monitor or watch themselves and maintain full awareness of:

-Whether they’re using effective learning strategies;
-Whether they are comprehending what they are attempting to learn; and
-How to regulate or adjust their learning strategies to meet the demands of different tasks or subjects (Pintrich, 1995; Weinstein, 1994; Weinstein & Meyer, 1991).

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