CAEN 101 - An intensive course in learning theory and study skills

 

Advisors:
Beginning with the fall 2007 semester, all credit-bearing courses offered by the Student Learning Center will carry a new course prefix: STLC. Non-credit courses will have the prefix SLCX. Below is a list of our courses with the new and old designations. If you have any questions about this, please call the Student Learning Center at 845-2724 or visit our website: http://slc.tamu.edu/ 
 
Student Learning Center Courses
(Old course designations in parentheses)
 
Credit courses:
 
STLC 101 (CAEN 101): Application of Learning Theories to College Studies
STLC 102 (CAEN 102): Career Awareness
STLC 289 (CAEN 289): Special Topics...
 
Non-credit courses (part of Texas Success Initiative):
 
SLCX 001 (CAEX 001): Basic Math Skills
SLCX 002 (CAEX 002): Basic Writing Skills
SLCX 003 (CAEX 003): Basic Reading Skills

 

Academic Advisors:

 

As New Student Conferences get underway beginning next week, I wanted to share some information with you concerning our CAEN 101 course. I hope you will take time to look at the report we compiled earlier this spring documenting the impact of CAEN 101 on student success. I have placed a link to this report below, but the "bottom line" is that we have found that CAEN 101 is most effective for students identified in our report as either "moderate" or "high" risk.  Typically these would be students with SAT scores of 1040 to 1140 and high school ranks from 88% to 75%. The highest risk group had mean SAT scores of 1040 or lower and mean high school ranks below 75%.  

 

As you can read in the report, students in the "high" risk group who successfully completed CAEN 101 had 8.1% higher first year gpr's than those who did not take CAEN 101 (1999-2004). In addition, the "high" risk CAEN 101 students during this period (1999-2004) had a mean first year retention rate of 90.3% compared to 85.3% for those not taking CAEN 101.

 

Here is the link to the full CAEN 101 Report: http://www.tamu.edu/cae/CAEN101.pdf

 

We encourage you to read the full report and perhaps use the SAT and HS ranks mentioned above as very general guidelines when deciding which students to refer to CAEN 101. However, please don't hesitate to refer ANY student to CAEN 101, regardless of SAT score or HS rank, who you feel would benefit from an intensive course in learning theory and study skills.  In addition to the "content" benefits, CAEN 101 classes are kept very small (25 or fewer) to ensure a high degree of student/faculty interaction.

 

As we have done the past few years, we will flag most incoming students as eligible for CAEN 101. We have loosened these restrictions somewhat, so you will probably find that most of your students will be eligible. However, if you have a student who you feel should be in CAEN 101, but you get a "Student Ineligible" message when you attempt to enroll them in the course, please call us and we will be happy to reset the flag which will allow them to enroll.

 

If you have any questions about CAEN 101 now or during NSC, please contact our office: 845-2724.

 

 

Joel McGee, Ph.D.
Associate Director
Center for Academic Enhancement
Texas A&M University
525K Blocker
4230 TAMU
College Station, TX 77843-4230
(979) 845-6029  fax(979)845-6419
jmcgee@tamu.edu
http://www.tamu.edu/cae