The College Fear Factor Free

Author: Rebecca D. Cox
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Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 0674035488

The College Fear Factor: How Students and Professors Misunderstand One Another

They're not the students strolling across the bucolic liberal arts campuses where their grandfathers played football. Download The College Fear Factor: How Students and Professors Misunderstand One Another from rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared. They are first-generation college students-children of immigrants and blue-collar workers-who know that their hopes for success hinge on a degree. But college is expensive, unfamiliar, and intimidating. Inexperienced students expect tough classes and demanding, remote faculty. They may not know what an assignment means, what a score indicates, or that a single grade is not a definitive measure of ability. And they certainly don't feel entitled to be there. They do not presume success, and if they have a problem, they don't expect to receive help or even a second chance. Rebecca D. Cox draws on five years of Search and find a lot of education books in many category availabe for free download.

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