Includes bibliographical references and index.

The evolution of the learning habits project : methods and procedures / Bettina J. Huber -- Who are the learning habits students and why do they persist? / Bettina J. Huber -- Being the first to go to college / Steven Graves -- The role of gender in fostering persistence and effective learning habits / Bettina J. Huber -- Campus diversity and college learning through the eyes of learning habits students / Bettina J. Huber -- Reading with understanding : what do college students say? / Elizabeth Berry and Linda S. Bowen -- Gains in written communication between the freshman and junior years / Irene L. Clark and Bettina J. Huber -- PowerPoint fatigue and the rabbit hole of Internet stuff : students and technology / Donal O'Sullivan -- Sliding into learning : the power of Webnotes / Carrie Rothstein-Fisch and Sharon M. Klein -- Factors influencing academic help seeking by college students / Mark Stevens and Peter Mora -- Self-regulated learning habits / Daisy Lemus, Mary-Pat Stein, and Whitney Scott -- Encouraging students to be thoughtful about their learning / Bettina J. Huber -- What did you learn? What are you gonna do about it? -- Appendix 1. Participants in the Learning Habits Seminar -- Appendix 2. Master list of questions posed during face-to-face learning habits interviews -- Appendix 3. Questions posed at project registration and in all end-of-term assignments.