Academic Support

 

Our Comprehensive Academic Support System provides Academic Support Assessments to assess learners’ academic skills (strengths and liabilities) and their learning styles, and provide Academic Support Tools to support their academic development in this regard.

Academic Support Assessments

Academic Support Assessments include the Academic Skills Assessment and the Learning Styles Assessment.


Academic Skills Assessment

The Academic Skills Assessment (ASA) assess learners’ academic skills (strengths and liabilities) that have been found to impact on academic performance.


Learner Strengths

  1. Bullet    Study Strategies

  2. Bullet    Note-taking/Listening Skills

  3. Bullet    Reading/Comprehension Strategies

  4. Bullet    Writing/Research Skills

  5. Bullet    Test-taking Strategies

  6. Bullet    Organizational Techniques

  7. Bullet    Time Management


Learner Liabilities

  1. Bullet    Low Academic Motivation

  2. Bullet    Test Anxiety

  3. Bullet    Concentration/Attention Difficulties


Learning Styles Assessment

The Learning Styles Assessment (LSA) assess how much learners rely on Visual (sight), Auditory (hearing) and Kinaesthetic (other senses that include touch, movement, position in space and tactical experiences) to perceive or make sense of information (or learn).


The LSA assesses if the learner is:

  1. Bullet    Visual

  2. Bullet    Auditory

  3. Bullet    Kinaesthetic


When we learn or gather information about the world that we live in (including study), we involve all our senses. Each of us have our own unique way of thinking, and consequently develop our own unique way or method of learning, based on how we have come to use our senses. Some of us employ one sense more than others, resulting in our developing learning style preferences, based on our patterned predominant use of particular senses. It is important for learners to understand their predominant learning style(s) in order for them to adapt their learning and environment accordingly.

Academic Support Tools

Academic Support Tools provide relevant insights and develop users’ academic skills through activities aligned to our academic support assessments and developed to support their development in our range of Academic Support Workbooks.