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Undergraduate Student Perspectives On Textbook Costs And Implications For Academic Success, Lucinda Rush Wittkower, Leo S. Lo
Undergraduate Student Perspectives On Textbook Costs And Implications For Academic Success, Lucinda Rush Wittkower, Leo S. Lo
Libraries Faculty & Staff Publications
To provide more affordable course content to our students and faculty, local data on how students perceive textbook expenses and how the costs impact student success would be necessary in order to advocate to faculty and other stakeholders. This survey, conducted at a mid-sized research public institution, aims to explore student perceptions of textbooks and how these perceptions influence academic success. The results reveal that students feel that the cost of required textbooks is unreasonable and that students are more likely to purchase required textbooks for in-major classes than for elective or general education courses. The most common means of …
Who Moved My Subject Search, Tonia Graves
Who Moved My Subject Search, Tonia Graves
Libraries Faculty & Staff Presentations
This presentation discusses the challenges of discovering academic journals in a library discovery system. It focuses on the challenges of searching for academic journals by subject.