- Title
- Pathway to success : Using students’ insights and perspectives to improve retention and success for university students from low socioeconomic (LSE) backgrounds
- Creator
- Sadowski, Christina; Stewart, Margaret; Pediaditis, Mika
- Date
- 2018
- Type
- Text; Journal article
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/164080
- Identifier
- vital:13026
- Identifier
-
https://doi.org/10.1080/13603116.2017.1362048
- Identifier
- ISBN:1360-3116
- 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. © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Relation
- International Journal of Inclusive Education Vol. 22, no. 2 (2018), p. 158-175
- Rights
- Copyright © 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group.
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- 1303 Specialist Studies In Education; 1608 Sociology; Action research; Higher education; Inclusive education; Low socio-economic students; Student retention and success
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