Links for Student Success

Intervention:
SOS Referral Form

The Paragon Learning Styles, LASSI Instructional Modules, and Career Exploration Inventory are currently administered through Wanda Clifton-Faber, M-126, ext. 5824. If you would like to employ one of these tools for student success, please contact Wanda.

Paragon Learning Styles (PLSI):
Go to Paragon Learning Styles Testing for more information.

Learning & Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) Instructional Modules :
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The Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI) is a 10-scale, 80-item assessment of students' awareness about the use of learning and study strategies related to skill, will and self-regulation components of strategic learning. There are eight items on each of the ten scales of the LASSI. These scales are: Anxiety, Attitude, Concentration, Information Processing, Motivation, Selecting Main Ideas, Self Testing, Study Aids, Test Strategies, and Time Management. Each of these scales is primarily related to one of the three components of strategic learning: skill, will and self-regulation. The LASSI is both diagnostic and prescriptive. It provides standardized scores (percentile score equivalents) and national norms for ten different scales (there is no total score reported because this is a diagnostic instrument). It provides students with a diagnosis of their strengths and weaknesses, compared to other college students, in the areas covered by the ten scales, and it is prescriptive in that it provides feedback about areas where students may be weak and need to improve their knowledge, skills, attitudes, motivations and beliefs. Research has repeatedly demonstrated that these factors contribute significantly to success in college and that they can be learned or enhanced through educational interventions such as learning strategies and study skills.

Each unit of the LASSI Instructional Modules focuses on a scale of the LASSI Inventory that is directly related to academic success in college. These units are not brief, inconsequential attempts to brush aside the problems students encounter. On the contrary, the student with a serious difficulty will find the units provide information and activities designed to overcome the problem. At the same time, students with less serious problems will find the program operates easily to locate specific material and provide the information needed. (Source: hhpublishing.com)