College | Highschool | Homeschool and Parental
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1. Retention | 2. Acclimation | 3. Strength identification | 4. Career guidance 5. Encouraging individualized study skills | 6. Revealing motivational needs |
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"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
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5. Encouraging individualized study skills Short and accurate assessments help identify a student’s natural and unique learning and thinking strengths so that students can make the best use of their study time. There exists much research indicating that student’s decisions to leave college relate more strongly with their academic success during the first year (Pascarella & Chapman, 1983). Good grades during the first term also correlate to their probability to persist through to graduation (Seymore, 1993). Other research suggests that the cognitive and behavioral habits students develop during their first year may influence their habits for their whole college experience (Shilling, 2001).
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Shilling, K. (2001, August). Plenary address. Presented at the Summer Institute on First-Year Assessment, Asheville, North Carolina.
Seymore, D. (1990). Cooperative Learning: Theory, research, and practice. Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall
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