College Student Inventory

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College Student Inventory

• College Student Inventory
• Foundation of Noel-Levitz Retention Management
  System
• Used by 500 post-secondary institutions
  nationwide
• Designed specifically for incoming first-year
  students
• Provides 3 separate reports
• Summary Planning Report
• Advisor/Counselor Report
• Student Report

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• Student information organized under 3 main
  categories
• Academic Motivation
• Study Habits, Intellectual Interests, Verbal
  Confidence, Math/Science Confidence, Desire to
  Finish College, Attitude Toward Educators
• General Coping Skills
• Sociability, Family Emotional Support, Opinion
  Tolerance, Career Closure, Sense of Financial
  Security
• Receptivity to Support Svcs.
• Academic Assistance, Personal Counseling, Social
  Enrichment, Career Counseling, Financial Guidance

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• Dropout Proneness
• Measures students overall inclination to drop
  out of school before finishing a degree
• Students with high scores on dropout proneness
  should be considered as having a pattern of
  intellectual and motivational traits that is
  loosely associated with dropping out, but which
  may or may not lead to actual dropout in any
  given case

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• Predicted Academic Difficulty
• Designed to predict who is most likely to have
  low grades in college
• Correlates CSI questions with first-term college
  GPA
• Predictors of academic difficulty include such
  factors as study habits, verbal confidence, math
  and science confidence, desire to finish college,
  attitude toward educators, and high school GPA

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• Educational Stress
• Measures students general feelings of distress
  in the context of college
• Should be considered the CSI-Bs primary
  indicator of the students need for personal
  counseling
• Merely one piece of information to be used in
  making referrals for personal counseling.

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• Receptivity to Institutional Help
• Indicates how responsive the student is likely to
  be to intervention
• Based on how strongly the student expressed the
  desire for help in a wide variety of areas, such
  as career counseling, personal counseling, social
  enrichment, academic assistance, and financial
  guidance

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• Summary Scales
• High scores on dropout proneness, academic
  difficulty, and educational stress scales all
  indicate high need
• High scores on receptivity indicate a strong
  desire for help
• The general pattern is for high scores to imply
  the advisability of intervention
• Because of their susceptibility to
  misinterpretation, summary scores should not be
  discussed with students

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• Priority of Recommendations
• Priority scores of greater than 8 are most
  noteworthy
• Advisor will want to focus the students
  attention on those recommendations that you
  believe are most critical
• Students should never accept recommendations
  uncritically
• Recommendations should be weighed in terms of all
  information you have about the student

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• Motivational Assessment
• Students standing on each scale is indicated as
  a percentile rank and on a bar graph
• Each category in the visual profile represents 20
  percent of the normative distribution

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• Academic Motivation
• Study Habits
• Measures students willingness to make the
  sacrifices needed to achieve academic success
• Focuses on a students effort, rather than
  interests in intellectual matters or the desire
  for a degree
• Can be used to make referrals to services that
  assist students in developing better study habits

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• B. Intellectual Interests
• Measures how much the student enjoys the actual
  learning process, not the extent to which the
  student is striving to attain high grades or the
  desire for a degree
• Measures the degree to which the student enjoys
  reading and discussing serious ideas

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• C. Verbal Confidence
• Measures the degree to which the student feels
  capable of doing well in courses that heavily
  emphasize reading, writing, and public speaking.
• Intended not as a substitute for aptitude
  assessment but as an indicator of self-esteem
  relative to this type of task
• Students with low scores can be referred to
  services that will help them strengthen their
  verbal confidence

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• D. Math and Science Confidence
• Measures the degree to which the student feels
  capable of doing well in math and science courses
• Is an indicator of self-esteem relative to this
  type of task
• Students with low scores can be referred to
  services that will help them strengthen their
  confidence in math and science

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• E. Desire to Finish College
• Measures the degree to which the student values a
  college education, the satisfaction of college
  life, and the long-term benefits of graduation
• Identifies students who possess a keen interest
  in persisting, regardless of their prior level of
  achievement
• With low-scoring students, an advisor can explore
  their beliefs and values related to college

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• F. Attitude Toward Educators
• Measures the students attitudes toward teachers
  and administrators in general, as acquired
  through her/his pre-college experiences
• Students with poor academic achievement often
  express a general hostility toward teachers, and
  this attitude often interferes with their work
• Advisors can encourage a low-scoring student to
  revise how he/she regards educators

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• General Coping
• Sociability
• Measures the students general inclination to
  join in social activities
• Advisor may wish to explore the implications of
  an extreme score, either high or low, with the
  student

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• B. Family Emotional Support
• Measures students satisfaction with the quality
  of communication, understanding, and respect that
  they have experienced in their family
• Advisors can offer encouragement and empathy to
  low-scoring students, or they can refer these
  students for personal counseling

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• C. Opinion Tolerance
• Measures the degree to which the student feels
  that he or she can accept people without regard
  to their political and social opinions
• Can identify students whose perspective may
  impede the learning of new ideas in such areas as
  philosophy, comparative religion, world
  literature/history, and the social sciences
• Advisor can encourage student to consider new
  ways of thinking about the basic issues of life
  without immediately accepting or rejecting them

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• D. Career Closure
• Measures the degree to which the student has
  defined a career goal and developed a firm
  commitment to it
• Because career aspirations are the foundation
  upon which academic motivation is based, students
  with low scores should be strongly encouraged to
  seek career counseling

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• E. Sense of Financial Security
• Measures the extent to which the student feels
  secure about her/his financial situation,
  especially as it relates to her/his current and
  future college enrollment
• With low-scoring students, an advisor can explore
  their financial needs and refer them to
  appropriate offices for assistance

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• Receptivity to Support Services
• Academic Assistance
• Measures a students desire to receive
  course-specific tutoring or individual help with
  study habits, reading skills, examination skills,
  writing skills, or math skills

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• B. Personal Counseling
• Measures the students felt need for help with
  personal problems
• Covers attitudes toward school, problems with
  instructors, roommate, family, dating and
  friendships, general tensions, and controlling
  unwanted habits
• Very useful aid in deciding whether to encourage
  the student to seek counseling for motivational
  problems indicated elsewhere in the CSI

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• C. Social Enrichment
• Measures the students desire to meet other
  students and to participate in group activities
• D. Career Counseling
• Measures the students desire for help in
  selecting a major or career
• E. Financial Guidance
• Measures the students desire to discuss ways of
  increasing her/his financial resources for college

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