Center for Learning, Instruction & Assessment (CLIA)
Educational Enrichment
The Center for Learning, Instruction &
Assessment (CLIA) offers Educational Enrichment as one of
its innovative support services to EOP students in an
appropriate and interactive environment. The Center knows
that the key to overcoming academic difficulties lies both
in recognizing the strengths and weaknesses with which a
student enters college and in using their strengths to
overcome weakness that might impede success. The success of
this approach is hinged on providing an enabling environment
where each student discovers the answers to problems with
easy-to-reach tools. This also ensures that students become
independent learners.
Educational enrichment is an academic support service that
targets a particular aspect of a student's need as
determined by specialist assessment of the student's skills
in the specific subject. For example, a student who has
problems with fractions while taking elementary or
intermediate algebra, or punctuation while enrolled in
College English, is a good candidate for educational
enrichment. The need does not have to entail weak skills: a
student that performs above and beyond expectations may also
be a good candidate for educational enrichment, because
inspiring student to excel enhances their chances of
becoming well-rounded scholars.
To understand the term Educational Enrichment, one must
break down the two component words. Education, the business
we are all in, means to teach, to instruct, to school, to
study, etc. How this is achieved varies from one school of
thought to another. In fact there are so many ways of
achieving this that education has come to mean so many
things to so many people, and to no two people is it the
same. The word "enrichment" means enhancement, advancement,
augmentation, fortification, etc. Simply put, it is means to
make better. Therefore Educational Enrichment connotes
enriching education in all its rightful ramifications. At
the Center for Learning, Instruction & Assessment (CLIA), we
concentrate on the aspects in which we have certain
specialties, namely: English, Math, reading Sciences and
Information Technology. This we achieve by providing
supplementary self-study to help student enrich and achieve
their pursuits of excellence in education.
We envision Educational Enrichment as a continuous process,
whereby we build on expertise and experience. To this end,
we are pulling together materials in these areas as well as
providing specialized guidance in the relevant areas.
Students are thus encouraged to use books, computer-aided
instruction (CAI), reading packets, journal articles,
reference materials, etc. pulled together by academic
specialists. Alternatively, as the program grows, the Center
intends to develop its staff members to meet the challenges
of the next millennium, especially in the area of
information technology. The specific areas covered by this
service include:
Writing
Reading
Vocabulary
Mathematics (all levels)
Sciences (Chemistry, Physics, Biology, Anatomy/Physiology)
Information Technology