Learning Enhancement Checklist (LEC)

The Learning Enhancement Checklist (LEC) is a counselling initiative tailored towards individual as well as group-based assessment and intervention services. The LEC can be used remedially as well as developmentally by South African Universities and FET Colleges alike. The 4-phased programme begins with a computerised assessment and culminates in a personalised success plan for each student.

The LEC serves as an early warning intervention strategy through which faculties can support their at–risk students and thereby increase retention and throughput.

For institutional stakeholders, the programme can:

• provide a needs assessment profile of a particular group upon request.
• provide a profile regarding financial needs that can be shared with support services e.g. Financial Aid,
• inform policy formulation regarding language issues.
• make a meaningful contribution towards increased retention and throughput.

For counsellors, the expected outcomes of the programme are:

• greater insight into the holistic nature of student issues.
• increased manageability of large groups in terms of assessment and feedback.
• shortened time spent on intake sessions.
• increased relevance of workshops on offer to faculties.
• being able to work therapeutically with academically-related issues.
• witnessing a shift from paralysis to action-oriented student-initiated behaviour.

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Inventor(s) Dalray Gradige