The Academic Staff and Clinical Team at Sober College work together to help shape a personalized academic plan for each student.
Giving Students Individualized paths for Success
Determining a Residents Academic Plan
Every student is evaluated within their first week of admission and an individualized academic plan is determined. Our Academic Department takes into account past educational experience, learning strengths and weaknesses, and academic needs, to determine what courses would be most effective and beneficial for each student. Upon admittance to Sober College, each resident takes a series of assessments to determine an appropriate educational plan.
These assessments include the Cambell Skills and Interests Assessment, the Learning Style Inventory, and the Academic Information and Learning Questionnaires. Collectively these assessments and the new resident’s initial academic consultation, enable our academic team to put a new resident on the appropriate educational track. These assessments also inform our academic coaches on the most effective way to assist each resident on their future assignments.
A) The Cambell Skills and Interests Assessment:
The students take this assessment online, usually on their first day at the learning center. It is 300 questions and compares the student’s interests to their skills. It takes a few different areas such as medicine or child development and places them into four categories- develop, pursue, explore or avoid. If a student is unsure of what they want to study, our academics department uses this as a reference when deciding what to or what not to introduce to a student when deciding on classes to take or areas to study. It prompts each student to begin thinking about a career choice, while initiating communication between the student and our staff about major and career options. The Cambell Skills and Interests Assessment is helpful to those students who lost motivation during their addiction, to continue schooling and/or site of their goals.
B) Learning Style Inventory:
This twenty-four question inventory helps each resident better understand how they learn and process information by identifying their true learning preference i.e. visual, auditory, or tactile. The resident’s academic coach uses this information to teach each student study skills that will help them learn and succeed throughout the course of their class. For example, is a resident scores high in the visual category their coach could encourage them to use flashcards.
C) Learning Questionnaire:
The Learning Questionnaire and New Student Academic/Vocation Information Sheet include questions about basic background information, short and long-term goals, interests, credits earned and schools attended. These two short answer assessments contain information that our staff needs to move forward with each student’s academic plan.
