Study Skills & Strategies (3S) ONLINE

Institutions can purchase subscriptions to 3S for their students, have students purchase the program at their institution's bookstore, or have students purchase the program online at this site.

Here are just some ways that institutions use 3S:

• As a workshop
• As a requirement for all incoming freshmen
• As part of a freshman experience or college success course
• As a service offered by the college learning center and/or counseling center
• As a requirement for a student to come off probation
• As a tool for student retention
• Probation Requirement

Many institutions cover the cost by adding it to the student activity fee or charging a lab fee.

3S has three major components:

Component A - Assessment. Students take the assessment to evaluate their instructional needs in the study skills and strategies taught in the program.

Component B - Instruction. Students work through the interactive instruction to gain mastery of the study skills and strategies covered in the program.

Component C - Management. Teachers, tutors, and other education professionals use the management system to monitor the progress of individual students, groups of students, and classes.

Component A - Assessment The 3S assessment contains 70 items that require students to indicate their use of the study skills and strategies that are taught in the program. A Narrative Report is automatically generated when a student completes an assessment. The report describes each of the study skills and strategies units. For each unit, the student's scoreis reported along with one of three instructional recommendations: need instruction, need review, need no instruction. A hyperlink to instruction is provided for any unit for which the student needs review or instruction. A student may take the assessment any number of times. This allows faculty and staff to evaluate and monitor the student's progress and needs. The Narrative Report for each completed assessment is stored and can be retrieved and printed at any time.

Component B - Instruction

Each of the five units of instruction includes multiple interactive screens. The following learning model is used. First, the student is introduced to the strategy or skill. Second, the student is shown examples of how the strategy or skill is used. Third, the student practices the use of the strategy or skill. During this practice, the student is required to type responses in text fields that are provided. Pop-up screens provide feedback throughout the practice activities. Each sequence of instruction concludes with an application activity in which the student is required to apply the skill or strategy to his or her actual class work.

Component C - Management

Each assessment and application activity completed by a student is automatically stored in a central file. Designated faculty and staff can easily retrieve and print assessment reports and completed application activities for individual students or for classes or groups they establish. Faculty and staff can type comments on application activities and send the work and comments back to the student. The student can make changes and resubmit their work. This back and forth communication can be continued indefinitely.

The Management Component also provides a Diagnostic Profile for each assessment completed by a student. The profile contains a bar graph of the student's scores along with instructional recommendations. It allows faculty and staff to quickly identify the student's instructional needs at a glance. The Diagnostic Profile for each completed assessment is stored and can be retrieved and printed at any time.

If faculty and staff do not wish to use the management component, they can have students email assessment reports and application activities to them directly from the site. Or, they can have students print these and submit them in class.

Contact a Colleague Who is Using This Program

Miami-Dade College (MDC) uses 3S with more than 10,000 students across five campuses. They have been using 3S for the past three years and have increased their use each year. Please feel free to contact Dr. Evelyn Diaz, Chair of the Department of Natural and Social Science at their InterAmerican Campus. Dr. Diaz can tell you how MDC uses 3S as well as how faculty/staff and students have responded to the program.

You can contact Dr. Diaz at ediaz@mdc.edu.

PRICING AND FURTHER INFORMATION

Prices for Student Subscriptions (each subscription runs for six months from the time that a student initially logs in).

Number of Subscriptions		Price per Subscription
1 -99		$14.95
100-249		$12.95
250-499		$9.95
500-999		$7.95
1,000+		$4.95

NOTE: Faculty and staff receive free use of the program.

Contact us if you wish to place an order, have questions, and/or would like a free two-week trial of the program.

Phone: 970-593-1586
Toll-Free: 866-409-0585
Fax: 970-962-0057

There are two ways to contact us by email.

1) Click here: study@studyskillsplus.com

or

2) Complete the contact form by clicking here.