Conference Session

Student Division Technical Session 1

Collection

2018 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition

Authors

Bryon Kucharski, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Aaron Carpenter, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Joan Giblin, Wentworth Institute of Technology; Mehmet Ergezer, Wentworth Institute of Technology

Tagged Divisions

Student

enter college and combine past study habits with new learning strategies in an effort tohandle the collegiate workload of 4-5 undergraduate courses. Undergraduates learn new learningstrategies from personal experience, suggestions from faculty and staff, adaptation of past habits,and observation of and discussion with their peers. Thus, their ability to incorporate newstrategies into their own academic life is in many ways limited to the people they have contactwith, both in face-to-face settings, and now through the Internet. Undergraduate help-seekingbehavior can be influenced by faculty and peers 1,2 . While faculty members, tutors, mentors, andadvisors are a valid source of advice, recent graduates and current junior/senior students