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Be included in future emailings StudentKeys, a division of PeopleKeys and DiscInsights
 
1. Retention | 2. Acclimation | 3. Strength identification | 4. Career guidance
5. Encouraging individualized study skills | 6. Revealing motivational needs
 
"When my child brought the materials home during the break, we opened new areas of communication and saw the differences within our family."
-M.M., Parent of college student, Pennsylvania

2. Acclimation
(from high school to college life)

The Carnegie Foundation sponsored an extensive study encompassing three years of campus-visitations and comprehensive data to examine the undergraduate experience. Boyer categorically concluded “Students find the transition from high school to college haphazard and confusing” (Boyer, 1987).

Transitioning from a high school social and learning environment to a college social and learning environment is a huge adjustment for students. They meet new and diverse people from various backgrounds and cultures. The students most at-risk are those who have difficulty dealing with change. Students who don’t work well in a less structured environment with little accountability may also have difficulty. Students whose contentment is closely tied to social integration will also become disheartened if they don’t feel integrated during the first year. Students have to teach themselves how to study, manage their time, and socialize all over again.

How can StudentKeys help acclimate students to college life?

  • StudentKeys assessments can be an effective ice-breaker and relationship enhancing tool during the first year of college when students first meet. People can get to know each other more intimately by discussing their own personalities in small groups. Groups can be arranged with similar personality styles or combinations of all styles.


  • Students who know their own behavioral styles and can recognize the styles of others will be more likely to gain instant understanding with new and diverse people they meet in class and dormatories. Students may also reduce everyday misunderstandings by understanding the behavior and motivations of others.


  • Administrators who use StudentKeys assessments will be able to identify students who may be at risk. This information can be used to develop interventions targeted toward the personality, learning, thinking, and motivational styles of individual students.

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    Boyer, E. L. (1987). College: The undergraduate experience in America. New York: Harper and Row.