PROFILING STUDENTS AT RISK FOR ACADEMIC Retention = Early - PDF document

������������������������������������ SDS Assessment Centre Seidman’s (2005) formula for student success PROFILING STUDENTS AT RISK FOR ACADEMIC Retention = Early Identification + UNDERACHIEVEMENT (Early + Intensive + Continuous) Intervention SDS Assessment Centre PROCEDURE • Scheduling • Ethics and confidentiality • Assessment • Processing/scoring • Reporting • Comprehensive individual report • Feedback session • Class report to lecturer • Interventions SDS Assessment Centre ������������������������������������ RISK AREA INTERVENTION ASSESSMENT Learning and study •Life Skills strategies •Self-regulated learning programme INSTRUMENTS •Individual study counselling Emotional skills •Life Skills programme •Therapy/counselling English proficiency •English course •Reading course Career awareness •Career counselling •Workshop on career planning

SDS Assessment Centre SDS Assessment Centre LASSI Assessment Battery Skill Will Self-regulation •Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) Information Anxiety Concentration Weinstein & Palmer Processing Selecting Main •Emotional Skills Assessment Process (ESAP) Attitude Self-testing Ideas Nelson & Low Test Strategies Motivation Study Aids •English Literacy Skills Assessment (ELSA) Time Hough & Horne Management •Career choice questionnaire SDS Assessment Centre SDS Assessment Centre Emotional Skills Assessment LASSI SCORES Process (ESAP) 0 - 50 PROBLEM Need to improve skills to avoid EMOTIONAL SKILLS AREAS serious problems in succeeding Self- Self- Interpersonal Leadership Intrapersonal management management at TUT Comfort / 50 - 75 Consider improving strategies Assertion Social Drive Strength Self Esteem Aggression Awareness for that scale Empathy Time Stress Deference Management Management Decision Commitment Change 75 - 100 Making Ethic orientation Do not have to prioritise Positive improving strategies in that Influence area SDS Assessment Centre SDS Assessment Centre CAREER CHOICE QUESTIONNAIRE ESAP SCORES Emotional Skills Profile •Develop • Knowledge about the course •Strengthen • Careers •Enhance • Choice • Fit >2 skill areas in the “Develop” area, a student will • General satisfaction require assistance Potential problem areas profile •Low •Normal •High

SDS Assessment Centre ENGLISH LITERACY SKILLS ASSESSMENT (ELSA) •ELSA Scanner Intermediate •Abridged version of the ELSA intermediate •Two scales •Cloze procedures •Vocabulary in context SDS Assessment Centre ������������������������������������ ELSA SCORES • Below Grade 8 RESULTS • Grade 8 or 9 • Grade 10 or 11 • Grade 12 or 12+ SDS Assessment Centre SDS Assessment Centre ESAP Emotional Skills AVERAGE LASSI SCORES 60 50 40 37 35 30 24 22 18 18 18 20 16 16 13 10 0 COMFORT EMPATHY ASSERTION DECISION MAKING POSITIVE INFLUENCE DRIVE STRENGTH TIME MANAGEMENT COMMITMENT ETHIC SELF-ESTEEM STRESS MANAGEMENT ENHANCE STRENGTHEN DEVELOP Average

SDS Assessment Centre SDS Assessment Centre English Literacy Skills Assessment ESAP Potential Problem Areas (ELSA) SDS Assessment Centre SDS Assessment Centre LASSI ESAP Students at risk Students at risk SDS Assessment Centre SDS Assessment Centre FUTURE DIRECTIONS • Standardisation – TUT norms SHAFEEKA DOCKRAT • Determine risk profiles dockrats@tut.ac.za • Financial utility 012 382 5076