Learning to Learn®
THINKING SKILLS FOR THE 21ST CENTURY
SEVENTH EDITION
By Marcia Heiman and Joshua Slomianko
LEARNING TO LEARN® (LTL) is unique program that enables students and others to become active learners. (LTL) is the only college success program that has been recommended for national use by the U.S. Department of Education. The most effective freshman seminar program in higher education, studies comparing LTL to other interventions show significant, long-term gains in retention through graduation and grade point average across the curriculum. For example:
Recommended
for National Dissemination
by the U.S. Department of Education.
The Department evaluated over 700 programs at all levels of education, and found that LTL is the only college-level program that has controlled, valid studies showing significant impacts on both students' grades and retention through graduation. Shorter College
Retention in the sophomore year improved by 38%
when Shorter's freshman seminar changed from Becoming a Master Student
to
LTL.
Hampton University
A 10-year study of LTL showed that high-risk students
taking LTL as freshmen were retained at a higher rate than the national
retention average of all college students.
The State University of New York at Buffalo
A 3-year study funded by the Fund for the Improvement
of Postsecondary Education found that LTL has significant, long-term impacts
on student retention, improved academic performance, and personal confidence
- even when LTL is taught in 100-student lecture halls.
What are LTL's long-term impacts?
Learning to Learn® is the only college-level program that the U.S. Department of Education found to have significant, long-term impacts on college students' grade point averages and retention through graduation. The studies validated by the Department of Education showed these LTL results:
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