Motivation and Learning Strategies for College Success : A Self-management Approach

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xviii PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I would like to acknowledge a number of individuals who played an important

role in the development of this textbook: Alonzo Anderson, who encouraged me

to work in the area of learning strategies; Claire Ellen Weinstein and the late Paul

Pintrich, who provided helpful insights as to how to teach learning strategies; Bill

Webber at Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, who encouraged me to write a book in

the area; Barry Zimmerman, whose work on self-regulation provided a framework

for organizing the content in the book; Richard Clark, who offered many sugges-

tions concerning the design of the text; Amy Gimino who wrote Appendix A, read

drafts of the manuscript, and provided feedback on the effectiveness of the mate-

rial as a teaching assistant in my course.

I also would like to thank the following reviewers who provided helpful feed-

back on the manuscript: Julia Beteler, the University of Akron–Wayne; Russ

Hodges, Southwest Texas State University; Peggy Pritchard Kulesz, University of

Texas–Arlington; Arnaldo Mejias, Jr., State University of New York–New Paltz.

Finally, I would like to acknowledge all my students, especially Kyle Williams,

and my teaching assistants, who contributed a great deal regarding how to teach

students to become more successful learners; and editor Naomi Silverman, who

provided helpful assistance throughout the project; and Joanne Bowser, who was

the project manager for the textbook.

—Myron H. Dembo