Empowering first-year social work students: improving student success and retention with a discipline-specific tutor to provide feedforward on assessments

Teakel, Sarah; Linden, Kelly; Bradshaw, Erin Rose

doi:10.1080/02615479.2024.2324917

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“…In addition, 85% of students agreed that 'The tutor session(s) exceeded my expectations for the type of academic support offered in first-year university'. As previously shown, there was a significant shift in the grade distribution of students who met with a tutor (Teakel et al, 2024). Students were less likely to receive zero-fail, fail or pass grades and more likely to receive credit, distinction, or high-distinction grades (Figure 1).…”

Section: Improved Student Experience and Successmentioning

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Embedded tutors: Enhancing student success and academic integrity with a pedagogy of kindness in first-year university

2024

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Academic integrity; artificial intelligence in higher education; feedback; feedforward; pedagogy of kindness; tutoring.Recent disruptions to higher education, including generative artificial intelligence, have highlighted an increased need for student support, particularly to enable a smooth transition in first-year university. The timing and the tone of support are critical. Here, content expert tutors were embedded in 24 first-year units to provide one-on-one draft assessment feedforward. Tutors received training on using the principle of the pedagogy of kindness; showing concern, compassion and empathy when interacting with students, and raising academic misconduct concerns. This study aimed to evaluate the impact of employing a pedagogy of kindness in tutor sessions on preventing academic integrity issues. Of the 704 draft assessments submitted, 51 students (7%) engaged in a discussion regarding academic integrity. Of these 51 students, 45 students passed their unit and only one required further investigation for academic misconduct. Tutors proactively contacted students who were identified as at risk of failing their unit. At-risk students who met with a tutor were more likely to pass their subject and achieved a higher average cumulative mark (51% vs 41%, p<0.05). In this paper, we evaluate how tutors providing a pedagogy of kindness increased meaningful learning and student success when incorporating cognitive presence. A responsive strategy using this pedagogical approach was implemented to address the increased use of generative artificial intelligence tools and to decrease the incidence of student academic misconduct.

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Section: Improved Student Experience and Successmentioning

confidence: 68%

Embedded tutors: Enhancing student success and academic integrity with a pedagogy of kindness in first-year university

2024

JALT

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Empowering first-year social work students: improving student success and retention with a discipline-specific tutor to provide feedforward on assessments

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Embedded tutors: Enhancing student success and academic integrity with a pedagogy of kindness in first-year university

Embedded tutors: Enhancing student success and academic integrity with a pedagogy of kindness in first-year university

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