Category: Student Retention & Success
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Just Published!!
https://open-publishing.org/journals/index.php/jutlp/article/view/1515 The Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice has released our article! This is Amy’s very first publication and it was SO exciting to be part of that process with her. Trixie and I walked her through the thematic coding process and she was so thank-ful for the opportunity to do new things and…
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Phoning students – Is it worth it?
I work in the STEPS program and we absolutley pride ourselves on the student experience. Most of our students are regional, remote, low socio-economic status or both. We also have higher-than-average numbers of Indigenous students and those with a disability. Part of my job is assessing their levels of engagement early in each term. I…
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Student Grief – Such a worthy topic!
Yesterday I read an amazing autoethnography by Alexandra Ridgway which is called “Love, loss and a doctorate: an autoethnography of grieving while writing a PhD.” Would recommend! Here’s the DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/07294360.2021.2019202 As my father passed away during my undergraduate degree (and my mum 7 years later, less than a year before I started my PhD)…
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Random thoughts on Self-Efficacy
I keep seeing statements in published articles about enabling students, or equity group students, students that belong to some form of “disadvantaged” background, etc where they state (as if it was just a fact) that these students have low self-efficacy or LOWER than other student groups. Some of them have a reference to back this…
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The “Grant Team”
Back when I was at Federation University, 2020, they offered a Cross-School Grant (internal). It was up to $10,000 for a research team with at least one Early Career Researcher (ECR) and at least one person from Education, Arts and Business. I originally had the idea to evaluate a new program where the Learning Skills…
Equity in higher education - An Australian researcher 