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McDaniel, Kathryn N. – Clearing House: A Journal of Educational Strategies, Issues and Ideas, 2014
Too often, students reach college without the learning, critical thinking, and literacy skills they need to succeed in higher education. Recent educational trends that promote teaching to the test, short reading and writing assignments, group work, and technological resources contribute to students' difficulties transitioning to college-level…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Teaching Methods, Attention, College Preparation
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Gray, H. Joey; Davis, Phillip; Liu, Xiao – Schole: A Journal of Leisure Studies and Recreation Education, 2012
The current generation of college students is so adapted to the digital world that they have been labeled the multi-tasking generation (Foehr, 2006; Wallis, 2006). College students routinely use digital playback devices in their lives for entertainment and communication to the point that students being "plugged in" is a ubiquitous image.…
Descriptors: Reading Assignments, College Students, Cognitive Style, Reading Habits