College Student Inventory

2. 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

3. College Student Inventory 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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5. College Student Inventory Dropout Proneness Measures student’s 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

6. College Student Inventory 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

7. College Student Inventory Educational Stress • Measures student’s general feelings of distress in the context of college • Should be considered the CSI-B’s primary indicator of the student’s need for personal counseling • Merely one piece of information to be used in making referrals for personal counseling.

8. College Student Inventory 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

9. College Student Inventory 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

10. College Student Inventory Priority of Recommendations • Priority scores of greater than 8 are most noteworthy • Advisor will want to focus the student’s 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

11. College Student Inventory Motivational Assessment • Student’s 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

12. College Student Inventory Academic Motivation • Study Habits • Measures student’s willingness to make the sacrifices needed to achieve academic success • Focuses on a student’s 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

13. College Student Inventory 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

14. College Student Inventory 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

15. College Student Inventory 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

16. College Student Inventory 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

17. College Student Inventory F. Attitude Toward Educators • Measures the student’s 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

18. College Student Inventory General Coping • Sociability • Measures the student’s 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

19. College Student Inventory 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

20. College Student Inventory 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

21. College Student Inventory 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

22. College Student Inventory 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

23. College Student Inventory Receptivity to Support Services • Academic Assistance • Measures a student’s desire to receive course-specific tutoring or individual help with study habits, reading skills, examination skills, writing skills, or math skills

24. College Student Inventory B. Personal Counseling • Measures the student’s 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 College Student Inventory

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