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Show Under-use- d by Mary Ontiveros aids students in job decisions Career Information Center exams determine the level of student students in selecting the Do you know what you are majoring in? According to Mr. Thales A. Tad" Derrick, Director of the Cooperative Education Program at of college students are undecided in their career choice. Mr. Derrick further comments that of those who have a major, 85 will change to another as many as three times! Dixie College, over 50 field--som- e The Career Information Center at Dixie College is designed to help students with their vocational choice. Located on the second floor of the Student Union Building, the Career Information Center offers free services to students concerning their career choice. The Center has 130 different pamphlets with career information and 60 large binders categorizing careers and companies that hire also qualified personnel. The center contains hundreds of books with information covering topics ranging from "How To Get A Job to How To Lose Your Job. If necessary, special research is available to obtain specific career information using filmstrips and This quarter, a new form of help available through the EOC for those who want or need assistance in mastering course material. It goes under the label of group study. The rationale behind it is simple: those who are actively involved in their own learning through teaching others, explaining concepts or to others, and solving systems problems with others learn more than those who always work alone. It is a fact that most good students study with others every chance they get, but for many students, there are not enough chances. The EOCs group study project for this quarter attempts to remedy that situation through two approaches, instructor directed study and student directed study. Here is how the first works: The instructor divides the class into sections, each containing five to ten students, depending on how many in the class are likely to take advantage of the opportunities to study with other students (No more than five should study together at a designated career area. The exam results are then given to the micro computer which calculates a list of possible vocations and this is returned to the student. This career profile gives the student a list of fields in which they are most likely to succeed. Career options in each field are also tapes. available to students. For example, r a sociology major has the option of The new TRS-8also gives information to students on teaching, doing research, doing social case work, working in as many as 560 occupations. The corrections as a parole or probation process involves exams given to the officer, and so forth. student to determine his interests and aptitudes. Holland and Job-exams administered Caroly Horstman, the Career are Information Specialist at Dixie or Carolyn Derrick Tad either by College, is available in the Career Horstman. Hollands is Center daily from 8 o clock until 5 professionally oriented whereas oclock. Her job involves aiding is vocational. However, both Job-- career information and using the machines. necessary effective! She also researches, evaluates and orders resource materials for thosi requiring information pertaining,, their career decisions She is responsible for updating information in the Center and increasing its availability to students. micro-compute- 0 New study groups will aid learning-- is interest in necesone time). One person--no- t sarily or even ideally the best students but very eager, responsible s administrative lead- ers in charge of getting groups together and keeping records. At the end of each class period, the instructor sets aside five minutes during which leaders poll Cue members of their groups to see if any or all want to get together in the EOC before the next class period in order to go over material together. (It goes almost without saying that frequent review and study sessions are of infinitely more value than one crash session just before a quiz or final.) The other group study approach, the student directed sessions, works the same way except that students who wish to study with others find each other and form groups of from four to nine. If they want their instructors to know of their efforts, they may meet in the EOC also, with the group leaders keeping the records required. In both approaches, the times for The information in the Career Information Center is free. If yOU have a question concerning your major, or are undecided, Tad Derrick or Carolyn Horstman are the second floor of the Student 1 Union Building, 673-48ext. 322 1 , democratically group study should be kept flexible. Groups should meet only if at least two of the group feel the need for a study session. The length of the study period should also be flexible; a ten minute session may be enough to solve a problem. In the formalized EOC project, a group may meet up to ten hours a week but for no more than two hours at a time. Of course, it is not essential that groups meet in the EOC nor that records are kept. As I said before, smart students have always known that studying with others is extremely valuable at certain points in the learning process (Groups soon discover that all learn more if all are as prepared to study together as they can be. But we are a college of individuals with more living off campus than on and more working full or part time than not; the great opportunities (of the more traditional campuses) for students finding study partners simply do not exist here. The EOC project exists mainly to bring stu dents who want to study togeti together. It is also a way eliminating the tutor system, whi in spite of much effort on the pari all involved does not work well hi at Dixie. If your instructor is suggest:: group study, get involved as a groi leader or as a member of a group not, set up your own study grou Because group leaders are replace tutors this quarter, they can recei pay for arranging for the session studying with the group, and keer ing a few simple records. If you interested in more details abo group leadership or wish to started, come to my office with list of group members and I will you set up. 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