Handouts for Students
Following are materials that students may find useful and/or interesting.
- R.M. Felder, "How to Survive Engineering School." Success strategies for engineering students (and all other students).
- L. Bullard, "A Survival Guide to Chemical Engineering." Suggestions to students beginning chemical engineering. Most of the suggestions are equally applicable to students in all other branches of engineering.
- R.M. Felder and J.E. Stice, "Tips on
Test-Taking." Good practices in preparing for tests and taking
them.
- R.M. Felder, "Memo to Students Who Are Disappointed with Their Last Test Grade." Suggestions for improving test grades.
- --, "Tips on
Talks." Good practices in preparing and delivering formal oral
presentations.
- --, "Impostors
Everywhere." Chem.
Engr. Education, 22(4), 168-169 (Fall
1988). The Impostor
Phenomenon ("Everyone around me really belongs here
but I really don't") as applied to engineering students.
- --, "Meet Your Students: 1. Stan and Nathan."
Chem. Engr. Education, 23(2), 68-69 (Spring 1989). The
sensor and the intuitor on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
- --, "Meet Your Students: 2. Susan and Glenda."
Chem. Engr. Education, 24(1), 7-8 (Winter 1990). The sequential
learner and the global learner on the Felder/Silverman learning styles model.
- --, "Meet Your Students: 3. Michelle,
Rob,
and Art." Chem. Engr. Education, 24(3), 130-131
(Summer 1990). Three different approaches to learning (deep, surface, and
strategic), and the conditions that induce students to take a deep
approach.
- --, "Meet Your Students: 4. Jill and
Perry."
Chem. Engr. Education, 25(4), 196-197 (Fall 1991).
The
judger and the perceiver on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
- --, "Meet Your Students: 5. Edward and
Irving."
Chem. Engr. Education, 28(1), 36-37 (Winter
1994). The
extravert and the introvert on the Myers-Briggs Type
Indicator.
- --, "Meet Your Students: 6. Tony and
Frank."
Chem. Engr. Education, 29(4), 244-245 (Fall 1995).
The
thinker and the feeler on the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator.
- --, "Meet Your Students: 7. Dave,
Martha, and Roberto." Chem. Engr. Education, 31(2), 106-107
(Spring 1997). Three students at different levels of Perry's Model of
Intellectual Development.
Students in science and math and anyone who teaches in these fields will also
find useful material on
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The Math and Physics Help Home Page. This site contains instructive and
entertaining pieces written by Ken Felder with titles like "Think like a
physicist," "What dx actually means," "Trigonometry Overview," and "Gödel's
Theorem."
Send mail to Dr. Felder at
felder@eos.ncsu.edu
Return to Dr. Felder's home page