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CollegeScope™ Student Success Program Updates

January 2012

• New chapter order places career chapters first to help with student motivation and educational planning.
  Part I: Career Success
  – Chapter 1: Understanding Motivation
  – Chapter 2: Exploring Your Personality and Major
  – Chapter 3: Learning Style and Intelligence
  – Chapter 4: Exploring Interests and Values
  – Chapter 5: Planning Your Career and Education
  Part II: College Success
  – Chapter 6: Managing Time and Money
  – Chapter 7: Improving Reading and Memory
  – Chapter 8: Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking
  – Chapter 9: Test Taking
  Part III: College Success
  – Chapter 10: Communication and Relationships
  – Chapter 11: Thinking Critically and Creatively
  – Chapter 12: Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle
  – Chapter 13: Appreciating Diversity
  – Chapter 14: Thinking Positively about the Future
• MI Advantage™, our new multiple intelligences assessment, will help students think positively and build confidence by discovering their intelligence strengths and linking those results to careers best suited to their particular intelligences. Learn more about MI Advantage here.
• Developing your e-learning style with new sections to help students to learn online.
• New graphics to illustrate major points and enhance visual learning.
• Revised journal entry requirements will help developmental students with writing skills by providing scaffolding such as topic sentences, brief outlines and lists of possible ideas to develop their responses. There are five to six journal entries per chapter.
• New Career Interest Profiler assessment to help students to identify their vocational interests and matching careers.
• Strengths-based focus as students explore their personality strengths, values, interests and multiple intelligences as a foundation for building lifelong personal and career success.
• Development of self-responsibility when students make good career choices, set goals for the future and manage time effectively to reach their goals.
• Emphasis on positive thinking and hope for the future by developing optimism, hope and future-mindedness to increase student success.
• Motivational quotes to inspire students to be successful.
• Humor with in-chapter cartoons designed to emphasize important topics.
• Updated career trends that include “green jobs”, jobs in technology and social media, healthcare and e-commerce.

January 2011

• All students begin CollegeScope for free! Students can complete the Content Survey (pre-test) and Chapter 1, Understanding Motivation, without an access code or fee. To access the remaining chapters and assessments, students pay online or use a simplified 6-digit access code they can purchase from the bookstore. This new feature will insure that all students get started within the critical first two weeks of the semester to maximize student retention and success.
• Two scholarships are provided for each course section. You will receive two free access codes for each course section which can be used to help students in need.
• Students will complete the assessments along with each matching chapter. Students will complete the Do What You Are^® personality assessment with the personality chapter and The PEPS Learning Style Inventory along with the learning style chapter.
• Enhanced faculty training is now available. All faculty members have access to training workshops. New online webinars are provided for individuals and small groups. Training includes basic navigation, getting the most from CollegeScope features, helping your students to log in and use the program, and administration of the assessments.