At Emmanuel Christian Academy, we are dedicated to helping all of our students reach their highest potential and watching them succeed in their high school years and beyond. The challenge lies in discovering each student’s unique set of talents, and understanding how those talents will drive college major, career, and even life choices.
That’s why we’re excited to share with you that ECA has recently partnered with YouScience, creator of the innovative program called the YouScience Profile. Learn more about how the program works and watch video demonstrations at YouScience.com.
YouScience is an exciting new tool for us, and is being offered directly to our families for the first time. With this program, students will discover their unique set of talents through the revolutionary intersection of aptitudes, interests and personality. It’s a completely new way to understand where your children will succeed and allows ECA to deliver even more effective and accurate college and career guidance.
The online, scientific program takes students through a series of assessments and interest questions, designed to determine their results in the 9 key aptitudes utilized in the working world. The results include a review of the student’s strengths, suggested environments where they will succeed, detailed information on possible careers that match those skills and interests, majors that map to those careers, and much more.
Based on the science behind the YouScience assessment and our review of the program, we believe this tool will help students make more informed decisions when it comes to major and career-related choices. This could translate into a more cost-effective and enjoyable journey through the college years, as well as helping students pursue their best fit career paths.
Here are a few videos that tell you more about YouScience:
Students in grades 7-12 will begin taking the YouScience assessment on Monday, January 25th. Students will receive a link from YouScience inviting them to begin the assessments.
Below is additional information that will be helpful as your student navigates the YouScience assessments:
7th-8th grade students will take 6 assessments ranging from 5-15 minutes each in length.
9th-12 grade students will take 11 assessments ranging from 5-15 minutes each in length
Students can take these assessments during their FLEX time when they are in the building. If they are scheduled for math help during FLEX, they will save YouScience for the next day.
Students can work on the assessments at home as well. They simply need to keep track of their time so they get to their next class on time.
These brain games are not designed to take all in one sitting. Students can take a few at a time and then come back to it at a later time.
It is very important to eliminate distractions during the assessment. Students need a quiet, comfortable place to test with no tv, music, pets or cell phones to distract them. They have also been encouraged to let you and any siblings know that they are testing.
Some of the brain games will be easy, while some will be very difficult. This is normal. The assessment is about what a student naturally does well. It is looking for the student's God given gifts. If a student cheats they will receive inaccurate results. The students have been encouraged to do the best they can in each assessment.
Students need a stable WiFi connection and their Chromebook to test. YouScience cannot be taken on a tablet or cell phone.
If you have any questions, please get in touch with Alicia Kidder at akidder@ecaoh.com
