SELF-REFERRALS

Every Fullerton College student is welcome to use Skills Center materials for personal skill development in one or more of our many areas of study. Just check at the counter to obtain a “Materials Check-out Card.”

Students can drop in as often as they like and stay as long as they like. Either ask an instructor to suggest materials to work from or work with Skills Center staff to create an appropriate individual lab assignment sheet. Staff will gladly assist with equipment and material choices.

Examples of Skills Center programs students can use:

Develop academic success strategies:

1. Higher Scores on SAT, ACT, PSAT – Develops knowledge, skills, and test-wiseness applicable in many different testing situations. Provides specific training for taking these three tests.

2. Learning Styles Inventory – Assesses individual student’s or whole class’s preferred learning styles. Recommends optimum teaching/learning strategies based on the results. Shows results in graph format.

3. Study Behavior Inventory – Program asks students questions about their study time habits and attitudes. Report based on the student’s responses illustrates areas student can improve in.

Learn techniques to make your student life easier:

4. Inspiration – Visual diagramming program allows users to organize ideas in concept maps and outline form. Also good for analyzing relationship between ideas in reading and improving comprehension and critical reading ability.

5. Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing – Users learn or enhance their keyboarding skills. Includes sections on ergonomics and exercises to develop good keyboarding habits, prevent repetitive stress injuries.

6. Alcohol 101 – Explains the effect of alcohol use on decision-making abilities. A virtual campus provides the setting for scenarios addressing the problems college students are likely to face.

Expand your knowledge:

7. Grolier’s Multimedia Encyclopedia – A general reference work for all students. Graphics-intensive.

8. Practical English Diagnostic – Evaluates knowledge of English fundamentals. Identifies weaknesses users may have. Printout of results useful for prescribing next steps. Skills Center chart matches our materials to student needs.

9. Skillsbank5 – Comprehensive program reviews important skills in a variety of subjects including Reading; Language Development; Math and Algebra; Writing; Science, and Informational Skills such as using reference books. Graphics-intensive format. Pretests help determine if student needs more study in that subject.

10. Survivors – Testimonials from the survivors and the history behind the holocaust in Germany. Multimedia format. Steven Spielberg produced it.