What success means?
Enhancing student experience
First-time student (further/higher education)
Student satisfaction
Employment, business and industry
Education for change
Measures of Central Tendency: Mean, Median and Mode
Improving studentsucccess
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FOSTERING STUDENT SUCCESS:
HOW TO IMPROVE AND MAINTAIN STUDENT
SUCCESS
ABDISALAM ISSA-SALWE
Content
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What success means?
Enhancing student experience
First-time student (further/higher education)
Student satisfaction
Employment, business and industry
Education for change
Conclusion
Reference
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What success may means?
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What does it means to be a successful student?
What is student experience?
What qualities do prospective employers seek
from recent graduate?
What success may means? (cont…)
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Definiton (1):
Future of education depends on how we answer
this question. Student needs to be socially and
academically successful
Successful teaching and learning takes place
when the teacher and the students solve problems
together, share the same values while learning
with one another, and develop a sense of
confidence and courage as a group in order to
seek and meet challenges
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What success may means? (cont…)
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Definiton (2):
Student success does not mean to achieve a good
grade and good job
Successful student is one who shows a sense of
responsibility, creativity, and self-efficacy
Student success is determined by the overall
accomplishments that a student makes in his/her
educational career
What success may means? (cont…)
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To student: when he/she achieves his/her goals
and aspirations
To faculty: when student demonstrate academic
competence
Holistic approach: Other dimensions and value to
be considered when defining student successful
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Enhancing student experience
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Instructor/institution:
Student to receive an appropriate learning activities measured
to the level of the course
Help and facilitate student to learn using different strategies in
teaching
Blend course in the pursuit of the learning goals and objectives
Design and review subjects to ensure their relevance to the
student’s needs
Ensure the use of resources effectively and efficiently
Develop strategies and skills needed to be independent
learners and successful student
Enhancing student experience (cont…)
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Student:
Develop intellectual and academic competence
Establish and maintain interpersonal relationships
Explore identity development
Consider career goals
Maintain health and wellness
Reconsider and internalise what he/she believes and value
Develop an awareness and appreciation of diversity
Develop learning community
Lee et al.
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Student satisfaction
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The purpose of education is threefold:
To acquire knowledge for personal growth
To become engaged citizens
To serve the public good, and learning to prepare for
future employment
Student satisfaction (cont…)
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Student satisfaction with courses
The result of a supportive learning environment
The relevance of the course material
Actively engage students
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Student satisfaction (cont…)
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Student satisfaction with grades
Reflect student effort and understanding of the course
Striving to motivate
Supportive learning environment
Foundation of a positive student experience
Equal opportunity
Connection to a community of learners
“Community” as an association of individuals that have
mutual relationships and function as a unit, such as clubs,
teams, academic programs and online communities
Employment, business and industry
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Awareness of the qualities sought by prospective
employers can help understand how can best
prepare our student for future employment
Seek to initiate and cultivate working partnerships with
business, industry and other institutions
Help students to realise skills to acquire during
the learning process
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First-time student
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First time student face challenges:
Lack of preparedness and learning skills required to cope
with the academic expectations of undergraduate
coursework
Declining sense of community
Confusion and frustration caused by the complexity of
further/higher learning
Student need
Assistance to ease transition from secondary/high school to
further/ higher education
Help understanding and developing the strategies and
skills needed to be independent learners
Education for change
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Educational excellence as a moving target
Required a system to cope with this change
Systematic change approach involves teachers to
coordinate change in the educational system so that it
furthers the shared goals and visions
Change to be linked to the concept of continuous
improvement
Innovation:
Encourage and support creativity and collaboration
Foster and promote innovation in the design,
development, support, delivery, and management of all
programs and services
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Education for change (cont…)
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Teaching is not about what you do to students but
what you do to for the students
A teacher cannot force learning to take place,
but can do a great deal to create an atmosphere
where student want to learn
Real learning occurs when student has interiorised
the concept and can apply it in other situation
Education for change (cont…)
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Student Centred-learning:
To meet the educational needs of the students by promoting the
quality of their access, learning and success
To support the delivery of quality instruction and programmatic
decisions and allocating resources
Quality
Raise standard of learning and teaching
Share a commitment to excellence and continuous improvement in
teaching and learning
Continually evaluate ourselves to improve our effectiveness and
efficiency
Our personal development and self-reflexive approach
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Conclusion
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Student ultimately responsible for own success
Likely to succeed when he/she is taught strategies
and skills to be successful
Institution's responsibility to create an environment
that both challenges student and supports such
success
The institution's success raises institution’s reputation
Student becomes proud to be part of the institute
Conclusion
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Education is a means to success. Once education is
received, success is obtained.
The student who learns the meaning of education,
learns the value of an educator.
Once the student is educated, the outcome is a
positive one.
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