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Pathway to success: using students' insights and perspectives to improve retention and success for university students from low socioeconomic (LSE) backgrounds.
- Source :
- International Journal of Inclusive Education; Feb2018, Vol. 22 Issue 2, p158-175, 18p
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- In an increasingly complex landscape of diversification and massification, universities are grappling with challenges of student attrition. This paper presents findings from a project investigating how students from low socio-economic backgrounds at a regional Australian university perceive challenges and supports associated with retention and success. Twenty-seven students received intensive one-to-one support from a Faculty-embedded 'academic advisor', and reflected on this support, their overall student experience, and strategies to enhance student success. Students identified a range of challenges that they experienced across an academic year (personal circumstances, lack of preparedness for university study, timely access to support, course/programme difficulties) and what worked well for them (academic advisor, University support services, growing confidence in self as competent student, peer support). A range of strategies for enhancing student success were identified by students, namely consistency across teaching design and delivery, transparency of delivery modes, mandatory orientation, access to a dedicated academic advisor, and increased peer connectedness. The applicability and viability of the proposed strategies within current higher education settings are explored. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13603116
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Inclusive Education
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 127527158
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2017.1362048