- Title
- Effective teaching and support of students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds : Practical advice for institutional policy makers and leaders
- Creator
- Devlin, Marcia; Kift, Sally; Nelson, Karen; Smith, Liz; McKay, Jade
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- Text; Journal article; Technical report
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/102143
- Identifier
- vital:10754
- Identifier
- ISBN: 9781922125552 (Print) 9781922125569 (Electronic)
- Abstract
- This resource has been developed as part of a national research project, Effective teaching and support of students from low socioeconomic status backgrounds: Resources for Australian higher education
. This guide provides practical advice about the teaching characteristics and strategies that contribute to the success of students from low socioeconomic status (LSES) and about the ways in which student agency may be enabled. This raises the question of how to identify LSES students. While it is necessary to identify students from LSES backgrounds at a policy level, and perhaps for measuring performance and allocating funds, it is very difficult, and potentially undesirable, to target students from LSES backgrounds individually for teaching and learning or support purposes. Good practice in teaching and supporting LSES students benefits all students. This guide has been prepared with this in mind. This guide is not intended as a manual for teaching LSES students, nor is it prescriptive about how the advice it offers might be implemented. Instead, it offers general, practical advice that has emerged from relevant literature in the field, 26 interviews with academic and professional staff in six universities experienced in the effective teaching and support of LSES students, and 89 interviews with successful LSES students in three universities about what helped them succeed. The guide draws on the voices of staff and students and through sharing their views offers broad advice in five areas of teaching that may be of assistance to busy teaching staff. We recommend considering the advice and suggestions in this guide within the context of your discipline and workload. - Publisher
- Australian Learning and Teaching Council
- Relation
- Vol. , no. (2012), p. 1-32
- Rights
- Copyright © Devlin et al. With the exception of the Commonwealth Coat of Arms, and where otherwise noted, all material presented in this document is provided under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/au/).
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Effective teaching; Effective support; Low SES background students; Institutional policy makers
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