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About The Battalion. (College Station, Tex.) 1893-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 12, 1978)
I Mt fc>/\ i I ALlUlM TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 19 78 Page a mVeed study help? A&M offers aid Battalion Classified Call 845-2611 OUrsf By CANDICE HILL Battalion Reporter ( Students at Texas A&M Univer- ", I )r sity who are having a hard time ad- .1’" justing or maybe just choosing a , e: major at^e offered two services to ers v iiicBp them: Educational Psychology • B 101 and the Academic Counseling Hiter. MgoJI Educational Psychology helps * u students, especially freshmen, learn j fcre their weaknesses lie and how a , to overcome them. VjjHlichard Baither, lecturer for the i tL i fourse, savs there are approximately students enrolled this fall. Aus- ton Kerley, associate professor from the Academic Counseling ■inter, teaches a special section for athletes. micational Psychology helps mdents, especially freshmen, B-n where their weaknesses lie U how to overcome them. me 11 owing i Id. Horn am in hi : and tin ral year emaina nts for I - visits li dnew T1 ed doffia is und Secur ’.Ash dseve ■ print memh )f Spec oliceDe- he course concentrates on five Has: reading, writing, vocabulary, Hlling and mathematics. The first thing the students do is hike a test to ind out what their problems are. ■We diagnose the needs of the Hdents and match up their weak- Hses with individual programs,” laid Baither. Most of the students lye been referred by their adviser Hheir dean. Hfter the testing, each student is Hised on what areas they need to work. They spend approximately eight weeks in lecture for one hour a week. They also attend a two-hour lab for the entire 12 weeks of the semester. The lecture teaches stu dents how to study for tests, how to outline text material, how to take notes, and how to develop effective study techniques. The students also set up study schedules. Also included in the course is a reading lab which helps those stu dents who need to work on their speed and comprehension. “The problem with the course is that every student has a slightly dif ferent problem,” said Baither. It takes quite a bit of responsibility and motivation on the student’s part. The students get as much out of the course as they are willing to put into it. After the students’ prob lems are discussed they are only given guidelines as to what they need to do. After the course is completed some students are referred to the writing lab, which is set up by the English department or they may be sent to the Math department for ad ditional help. During the fall semester the course consists only of freshmen, but in the spring and summer semesters anyone may take the course. The Academic Counseling Center offers various services to students. The most well-known is a test given to help students choose a major. 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