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Understanding and Using Your PEP Profile for Academics: Home School
(Performance Evaluation Profile)
Thank you for considering the Performance Evaluation Programs (PEP)
profile to review and enhance your current academic performance for home
schooling. We think you will find it interesting and helpful. The PEP is not
a test. There is no perfect score for the different measures of the PEP. One
personıs score is not better than another. The PEP is not trying to discover
if you have mental health problems or who is the best student. What the PEP
does show are certain tendencies you may have which help or hinder your
performance in your life as a home school student.
Research indicates that top performers have certain traits and achieve a
special mental state before and during the school day. The PEP examines how
well you are able to enter that peak performance level. And the PEP offers
several suggestions for individual improvement based on the information
about yourself that you provided.
The PEP presents three different measures for your consideration. Your
results from each measure are presented followed by the individualized
suggestions to improve your performance in your studies. First is the
Attentional Skills Inventory which gives you feedback on your ability to
concentrate in different situations you will face in the learning
situations. Here, you will also learn about your ability to focus in
different ways such as going from broad to narrow attention quickly.
Second is the Profile of Mood States which determines your
mental/emotional temperament for pursuing your studies. Years of research
shows that peak performers are consistently in a special emotional state
prior to and during work periods. It is an exceptional mind set sometimes
called ³in the zone,² which is much different than the average person. This
measure will help you understand and attain this high performance mode for
your home schoolwork.
Finally is the Learning Styles Report. This measure determines your
dominant learning style. Usually, your learning style cannot be changed nor
should it be. It just is and is a part of you. The suggestions offered here
are to help you and your instructors blend with your particular style and
get the most out of learning endeavors.
The PEP, in part, is giving you your current perception of yourself as a
student. In that sense, it may or may not be accurate. For example, you may
have been up late the night before you took the PEP studying for a test. The
PEP may indicate that you are physically tired, when normally you are not.
The PEP is not intended to be the final or definitive analysis of you as
a person nor can it be. There are individual differences which no profile
can analyze. And some people go against the norm. For example, a few people
actually perform better when overly excited, though the majority do not.
Rather, the PEP is intended to be a helpful learning tool which will
help improve your home school performance. So if your profile says that you
could improve your relaxation skills during the school day and actually you
do not need to, the suggestions presented for relaxation are still
worthwhile reading for you and may raise your level of performance.
If you wish to have Dr. Cates to evaluate your child's performance profile using the PEP Test, you can print it, fill it out, and either email it or postal mail it to Dr. Cates at:
Faith Christian Ministries
864 Poplar Creek Road
Oliver Springs, TN 37840
There is a $50.00 charge for this evaluation.
The TEST FORM is in PDF form and you can view it and print it by clicking HERE.
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