Foundations for change, confidence, and new opportunities: impacts of a university enabling program in north-west Tasmania
University enabling programs develop students’ academic skills and understandings of the academic culture and environments, facilitating students’ transition into undergraduate courses. In addition to confirming these short-term benefits of enabling programs, this research explored the medium an...
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| author | Crawford, Nicole Johns, Susan Jarvis, Lynn Hawkins, Cherie Harris, Mike McCormack, David |
| author_facet | Crawford, Nicole Johns, Susan Jarvis, Lynn Hawkins, Cherie Harris, Mike McCormack, David |
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| description | University enabling programs develop students’ academic skills and
understandings of the academic culture and environments, facilitating
students’ transition into undergraduate courses. In addition to confirming
these short-term benefits of enabling programs, this research explored the
medium and longer-term impacts of the University of Tasmania’s
University Preparation Program (UPP). Past cohorts of successful UPP
students from 1996 to 2007, in north-west Tasmania, were targeted. The
study used a mixed methods approach, with surveys (quantitative) and
interviews (qualitative). The findings are described in terms of three interrelated layers: foundations for change, confidence, and new opportunities.
Developing academic skills and an understanding of the new culture led to
students developing confidence, which empowered them to undertake
undergraduate studies; this step, in turn, flowed on to further new
opportunities, such as employment and leadership roles. This study
illustrates that enabling programs are a transition strategy with multiple
benefits, especially for students from under-represented backgrounds. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-807112021-01-15T01:38:03Z Foundations for change, confidence, and new opportunities: impacts of a university enabling program in north-west Tasmania Crawford, Nicole Johns, Susan Jarvis, Lynn Hawkins, Cherie Harris, Mike McCormack, David University enabling programs develop students’ academic skills and understandings of the academic culture and environments, facilitating students’ transition into undergraduate courses. In addition to confirming these short-term benefits of enabling programs, this research explored the medium and longer-term impacts of the University of Tasmania’s University Preparation Program (UPP). Past cohorts of successful UPP students from 1996 to 2007, in north-west Tasmania, were targeted. The study used a mixed methods approach, with surveys (quantitative) and interviews (qualitative). The findings are described in terms of three interrelated layers: foundations for change, confidence, and new opportunities. Developing academic skills and an understanding of the new culture led to students developing confidence, which empowered them to undertake undergraduate studies; this step, in turn, flowed on to further new opportunities, such as employment and leadership roles. This study illustrates that enabling programs are a transition strategy with multiple benefits, especially for students from under-represented backgrounds. 2015 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80711 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ fulltext |
| spellingShingle | Crawford, Nicole Johns, Susan Jarvis, Lynn Hawkins, Cherie Harris, Mike McCormack, David Foundations for change, confidence, and new opportunities: impacts of a university enabling program in north-west Tasmania |
| title | Foundations for change, confidence, and new opportunities: impacts of a university enabling program in north-west Tasmania |
| title_full | Foundations for change, confidence, and new opportunities: impacts of a university enabling program in north-west Tasmania |
| title_fullStr | Foundations for change, confidence, and new opportunities: impacts of a university enabling program in north-west Tasmania |
| title_full_unstemmed | Foundations for change, confidence, and new opportunities: impacts of a university enabling program in north-west Tasmania |
| title_short | Foundations for change, confidence, and new opportunities: impacts of a university enabling program in north-west Tasmania |
| title_sort | foundations for change, confidence, and new opportunities: impacts of a university enabling program in north-west tasmania |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80711 |