Summary Of David Conley's Four Components Constitute College Readiness

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1. Background: David T. Conley (2008) believes that four components constitute college readiness for students including key cognitive strategies, key content knowledge, academic behaviors, and contextual skills and knowledge. He defines key cognitive strategies as students having the ability to form and solve problems, conduct research, having the ability to reason and to interpret information, and using precision to reach correct conclusions. Key content knowledge is described as ideas, concepts and vocabulary in the disciplines of English, Math, Science and the Social Sciences. Academic behaviors include time management, study skills, the use of study groups, persistence and awareness of one’s own performance. Conley describes contextual