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What is CollegeScope?

CollegeScope is an interactive online textbook with integrated personality, vocational interests, learning style and multiple intelligences assessments.  It is personalized for each student based on their assessment results and contains online student and faculty portfolios useful in monitoring student progress.  Topics include career, college and lifelong success. 

New Enhancements to CollegeScope

All students begin the program for free.  They pay online to begin Chapter 2.  The assessments are now connected to the chapters.  CollegeScope now includes the The MI Advantage multiple intelligences assessment. 

The Assessments

Pre and Post Tests
The pre-test is a measure of student skills at the beginning of the program.  It is repeated at the end of the last chapter to measure student progress.

Do What You Are (DWYA)
Chapter 2, Exploring Your Personality and Major, begins with this personality assessment.

The Productivity Environmental Preference Survey (PEPS)
Chapter 3, Learning Style and Intelligence, begins with this learning style and productivity assessment.

The MI Advantage
Chapter 3 also include this multiple intelligences assessment which begins the section on multiple intelligences. 

New 5th Edition CollegeScope PowerPoint:

Getting Started with CollegeScope
This PowerPoint presentation contains screenshots of CollegeScope and is designed to help students register, log in, take the assessments, begin the chapters and provide easy solutions to common login problems such as forgotten passwords.       

Free Demo
For a free demo of an online CollegeScope account, contact: Carla Lundman at carlal@humanesources.com

Student Comments
View Student Comments about CollegeScope 

Features
The CollegeScope Student Success Program is an innovative online e-text that features:

  • Personality type, learning style and multiple intelligences are key themes throughout the program
  • The Do What You Are personality assessment, the PEPS learning style inventory and the MI Advantage multiple intelligences assessments are integrated into the program
  • Personalized for each student based on personality type, learning style and multiple intelligences
  • Broad scope includes career, collge and lifelong success
  • Emphasis on careers and educational planning
        Includes ONet Career Data Base
  • New Interactive Features:
        Self tests for improved reading comprehension
        Online journal entries
        Personal assessments with immediate feedback
  • Online portfolio for assessments, quizzes and journal entries
  • Cutting edge technology that appeals to the New Millennial student
  • Portable, dynamic content
  • Based on psychological theory
  • Content is academically rigorous, yet practical and clearly written
  • Customized for your college
  • Tools for monitoring student progress
  • Early intervention for at risk students

Chapter Order for new 5th Edition of CollegeScope

The career chapters are now at the beginning of the program with the rationale being that students are more motivated to be successful if they have made a choice of their college major based on their personal strengths. 

Career Success College Success Lifelong Success
1.  Understanding Motivation

2.  Exploring Your Personality and Major

3.  Learning Style and Intelligence

4.  Exploring Your Interests and Values

5.  Planning Your Career and Education

 

6.  Managing Time and Money

7.  Improving Memory and Reading

8.  Taking Notes, Writing and Speaking

9.  Test Taking
10.  Communication and Relationships

11. Thinking Critically and Creatively

12.  Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle

13.  Appreciating Diversity

14.  Thinking Positively About the Future

 

CollegeScope Videos:

Note that these videos are for the previous edition of CollegeScope.  They are being revised for the current edition. 

     Features
          View the most important features of CollegeScope (7 minutes)
     Quick Tour
          Take a quick tour of the program from the faculty point of view (5 minutes) 
     Sample Personality and Learning Style Results
          View sample results from the Do What You Are personality assessment and
          the PEPS learning style inventory (5 minutes)

     Tour of Faculty Menu, Student Portfolio and Sample Chapters
          Take a quick tour of the CollegeScope program (5 minutes)
      Chapter Highlights 
            This video gives the highlights of each chapter in CollegeScope (16 minutes) 
      Log in for the First Time
           If your college has adopted CollegeScope and you are logging in for
           the first time, this 2 minute video makes the steps easy. 

Customer Service

For Customer Service including information on logging in to your account, contact:

Rick Hanson
rickh@humanesources.com
888-295-1520
860-794-2158