The Student Success Project : Helping students at-risk of failing or leaving a unit - a work in progress
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Paper/Presentation Title | The Student Success Project : Helping students at-risk of failing or leaving a unit - a work in progress |
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Presentation Type | Paper |
Authors | Duncan, Margot E. (Author) and Nelson, Karen (Author) |
Editors | Thomas, Jason |
Journal or Proceedings Title | Proceedings of the 11th Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference (FYHE 2008) |
Number of Pages | 4 |
Year | 2008 |
Place of Publication | Brisbane, Australia |
ISBN | 9781741072419 |
Web Address (URL) of Paper | https://unistars.org/past_papers/papers08/FYHE2008/index.html |
Conference/Event | 11th Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference (FYHE 2008) |
Event Details | 11th Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference (FYHE 2008) Parent Pacific Rim First Year in Higher Education Conference (FYHE) Event Date 30 Jun 2008 to end of 02 Jul 2008 Event Location Hobart, Australia |
Abstract | In Semester 1 2007, a Monitoring Student Engagement study, conducted as part of the Enhancing Transition at Queensland University of Technology (ET@QUT) Project and extending earlier work in the Project by Arora (2006), aimed at mapping the processes and resources used at that time to identify, monitor and manage students in their first year who were at risk of leaving QUT (Shaw, 2007). This identified a lack of documentation of the processes and resources used and revealed an ad-hoc rather than holistic and systematic approach to monitoring student engagement. One of Shaw’s recommendations was to: 'To introduce a centralised case management approach to student engagement' (p. 14). That provided the genesis for the Student Success Project that is being reported on here. The aim of the Student Success Project is to trial, evaluate and ultimately establish holistic and systematic ways of helping students who appear to be at-risk of failing or withdrawing from a unit to persist and succeed. Students are profiled as being at-risk if they are absent from more than 2 tutorials in a row without contacting their tutor or if they fail to submit their first assignment. A Project Officer makes personal contact with these students to suggest ways they can get further assistance depending on their situation. |
Keywords | Student engagement; first year students; University |
ANZSRC Field of Research 2020 | 390303. Higher education |
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Byline Affiliations | Queensland University of Technology |
University of the Sunshine Coast | |
Institution of Origin | University of Southern Queensland |
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