College Success Faculty
Training
June 25-26, 2008
Frequently Asked Questions about CollegeScope
This document provides the basics of
logging in, adding students to your account, accessing faculty resources and
using the most important features of CollegeScope.
CollegeScope Common Student Log In Problems and Easy Solutions
If students follow the simple directions for logging in, there should be no
problems. However students may have difficulties because they do not
follow the directions. This document contains the common questions that
students ask about logging in along with some simple solutions.
PowerPoint Presentations
PowerPoint for June 25: features, using technology with New Millennial students, overview, administering the Do What You Are personality inventory and the PEPS learning style inventory, how to get the best results with students, interpreting the assessments.
PowerPoint for June 26: research on student success, using CollegeScope to improve student success and retention, tips for engaging students in learning, teaching excellence, classroom exercises.
PowerPoint: Introducing CollegeScope: how to introduce CollegeScope to your students, slides of registration pages for each college.
Handouts
Agenda
Contact Information
and College Success Website
CollegeScope User's Manual for Lone Star College System
Exercises
Personality Checklist
Paper Airplane Learning Style Exercise
Life Stories
Memory Test
Brainstorming Exercise (Peanut Exercise)
Guess Test
20
Things You Like to Do
Coat of Arms
Work Values Auction
Communication Scenario
Crime and Punishment,
Worksheet
Tightwad Gazette
Person Bingo
Faculty
Person Bingo Students
Research Articles
Exploring the
Evidence: Initiatives in the First College Year, "Cuyamaca College",
published by the National Resource Center for The First -Year Experience
and Students in Transition, University of South Carolina, 2008
This article profiles 22
colleges nationwide with significant results in student
success.
"America's
Perfect Storm: Three Forces Changing Our Nation's Future",
Educational Testing Service (ETS), January 2007
The three forces changing
our nation's future include a lack of literacy and
numeracy, increasing
technological change and globalization, and increasing
population diversity.
The Community College Survey of
Student Engagement (CCSSE), "Reflections on CSSE's first Five Years,
2007 Findings
Five strategies that
work: 1. set high expectations and clear goals, 2. focus on
the front door, 3.
elevate developmental education, 4. use engaging
instructional approaches, 5. make
engagement inescapable
Full Report
Executive
Summary