The College Fear Factor

"Cox is important for preparing students (or lack thereof), but if you really want to improve your academic performance, remember readers that you need to pay more attention to the important contents of college education and college learning .. Community college practitioners and researchers are particularly interested in fear factors. "- Elizabeth M. Cox, Higher Education Review

"It provides a lot of valuable ideas and lessons ... this allows readers to think about the goals and objectives of education and how to choose those who choose to follow this path It is a valuable reading to do. Please achieve this goal. "- Andreas Hess, Times Higher Education

"There are Blue Ribbon Committee, Council Committee, Corporate Roundtable Conference, University Consortium, and dozens of non-profit organizations to solve the core problems of American education. How to make a student to succeed in college There are at least several thousand pages of pages, but I got more useful information than I learn from good report from a 198 page book written by an unknown educational associate professor at Seton Hall University The author's name, Rebecca D. Cox, entitled "Factors of college fear: how students and professors misunderstand each other". "To my knowledge, everything she did did not have clear and clear reform requirements, it took me five years to talk to and see a community college student why they did this Are we ... very wealthy and considerate people funding various committees and cooperatives to solve the university's preparation problem ... hand over books to education of all levels The cost of workers and policy makers is relatively small, because the reality we bring to is that it is very clumsy to try this. "- Jay Mathews, Washington Post Blog

"The claim of Rebecca Cox is simple and persuasive.The she is aware that students enter the classroom, are academically inadequate, and the definition of" real "education or" useful "knowledge is very limited There are many things that are done. In the past two decades, we have learned a lot in the classroom, but no one can clearly show teachers and students until Cox comes up. What is the interaction of learning and education, how it is interpreted or misunderstood, and the result? The impact is far beyond Community College. This is a book to be read by all teachers of all levels. - Marvin University of Pennsylvania Larsson

Dr. Rebecca D. Cox, author of 'The fear of college: The way students and professors misunderstand each other' (2009) spent years studying community college students and teachers. With the voices of these students, they are now a new traditional student of many campuses (first generation, work, parents etc), and Cox found another explanation: fear. They are afraid that they will not succeed, that they are not their own, and that they are not smart enough to attend college. That is amazing.

In addition to academic preparation, one explanation about the achievement gap between high school and university is "College Fear Factor" by Professor Seton Hall by Rebecca Cox. Her research students know that college degrees are essential to their future lives and career success. However, it brought great unease to this experience. Many people have brought past experience to educational failure. Normally this will be reinforced on the first day of college and you will need to pass or fail the placement test to see if they are ready for university level jobs. When they went to college, they were strongly aware of past failures and lack of preparation.

At the heart of the fear factor of the university is that today's community college student has a different understanding of education from the professor. Students are looking at degrees as a means to achieve their goals. They do not want to learn, they instead understand learning by absorbing expert information and then copying it in a test. Therefore, if they believe that these strategies will lower their ultimate goal, then it is almost impossible for them to accept teaching work to promote active participation.