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Incoming freshmen frequently struggle with the transition from high school to collegiate academics. This appears to be particularly evident in the sciences. Students often lack the self assessment skills and metacognition skills required to self-identify problems with their academic learning strategy. This does not allow them to diagnose and modify their learning strategies to allow them to be successful. Instructors often have little experience with such learning challenges and therefore may not be able to offer students appropriate learning strategy modifications. I present and assess a model for teaching learning strategies to students in an introductory biology course. This model presents specific techniques to assist students in accurate self assessment which then leads to recommendations for modifying their learning strategies. This model was used in an introductory biology course and students who attended these learning strategy workshops performed significantly better in the subsequent exam than students who did not attend a workshop. I present an outline of the workshop and learning strategy modifications and discuss the ramifications of incorporating learning strategy workshops on a broad scale for freshmen. (Contains 2 tables.)

1Boy Crusoe

By Allan Eric

Also published as" A Yankee Crusoe" . A 15 year old hard working and studious farm boy finds the lure of adventure on the seas as a merchant seaman more than he can resist. This is his story. " I was born in a little town in the State of Maine, near the close of the Civil War. My boyhood life did not differ materially from that of the average farmer's son in the remote country districts of New England--except, perhaps, that I read more and thought more. Hard work on the rugged soil, two terms each year in the little yellow country schoolhouse, a day's fishing now and then filled the early years of my life full to over-flowing. " What he gets is enough excitement and adventure to overflow his wildest dreams. How he experiences disaster and uses his wits and knowledge to overcome every problem makes for a great read. - Summary by Phil Chenevert