WELCOME TO VICTORIA UNIVERSITY

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WELCOME TO VICTORIA UNIVERSITY First Year Champions in Health and Biomedicine: a three year partnership with Academic Support & Development WELCOME TO VICTORIA UNIVERSITY NOTE: PLEASE ALLOW 10 MINUTES FOR YOUR PRESENTATION (4 SLIDES) NOTE: PLEASE USE ARIAL NARROW - HEADER (36 POINT) AND BODY (18 POINT) Dr Karen Lawrence Director Learning & Teaching, Health & Biomedicine

Background In 2012 Victoria University assigned Academic Language and Learning (ALL) specialists to discipline Colleges In 2013 “First Year Champions” (FYC) commenced FYC were targeted to courses with large attrition The role has been closely monitored for its impact on the student experience, engagement and retention. Initiated in 2012, Victoria University’s “First Year Champions” (FYC) Project has operationalised a coherent, strategic and adaptable “whole-of-university” approach to improving first year student experience (FYE), learning, retention and success. The Project comprises a network of College-based academics as FYCs, working with Academic Support and Development (ASD) and Transition and Retention staff to develop and facilitate customised First Year Experience plans within each of the Colleges. Informed by transitions pedagogy (Kift, 2009) and First Year Experience in Higher Education (FYHE) literature, these targeted plans combine the strengths of a “whole-of-university” approach with the flexibility of College-based approaches. The FYCs have become their own network enabling a supportive community of practice within which FYCs can work independently, but also collaboratively, sharing ideas, strategies and innovations, to improve FYE.

Academic Language and Learning At Victoria University, our ALL strategies are informed by the following objectives: Support the development of academic literacies for all commencing students in targeted first year units, including Diplomas, through a combination of collaborative course design, direct teaching & co-teaching, and discipline focused resources. Provide a student peer mentoring opportunity for every commencing degree student. Assist in the identification of diverse cohorts & at-risk students and provide a range of ‘embedded’, online & locally delivered additional support programs for these students. Work collaboratively with staff & students to improve outcomes at all levels, including post-first year and postgraduate. Strategies may include assisting in unit redesign, direct teaching and co-teaching, embedded scaffolded materials and resources and additional ‘at-risk’ programs. Conduct and disseminate research designed to develop the capacity of teaching and learning at VU.

Selection and Development of FYCs Key criteria for the position were that the academic: was currently teaching in a first year unit of study, understood the challenges of engaging students in a complex and messy world, possessed the initiative to engage with busy Course Chairs and Unit Convenors, had the capacity to contribute to course planning and coordination and demonstrated ability to work with central units.

Key tasks of the FYC role • Work closely with the Director of Learning and Teaching to develop and implement 1st year engagement objectives • Work closely with Course Chairs and Unit Convenors to achieve 1st year engagement objectives • Represent the College at all university 1st year engagement meetings and activities • Coordinate course orientation (both commencing and mid-year intakes) • Work closely with staff from organisations such as Academic Support and Development, Student Advising, Centre for Collaborative Learning and Teaching, Victoria University Student Union • Develop and support the College student society • Report activity/progress on 1st year engagement to the College Learning and Teaching Committee • Facilitate 1st year engagement activities at the College Learning and Teaching planning meetings. In the College of Health the process for appointing two First Year Champions was as follows. All course enrolment and attrition data were reviewed carefully by the Senior Leadership team, consisting of the College Dean, Director Learning & Teaching, Director Research & Research Training and College Manager. The two courses with the highest attrition rates were Nursing (17.5%) and Paramedicine (16.94%). An Expression of Interest was circulated to the nursing and paramedicine course leaders with a request to forward to all staff teaching within the first year of the respective degrees; two 0.5 appointments were secured (2014-2016) and one appointment has been secured for 2017.

Retention and Academic Language and Learning support Retention of students is critical to the economic health of the university Students may seek academic support at any point along the university journey however, to assist retention, the logic is to proactively ‘front load’. commencing students need to be supported to develop the required academic literacies for success and achievement in higher education, This approach is grounded in a proactive, developmental and embedded model of academic support which sees scaffolding of the development of discipline related academic literacies as an integral component of higher education study, rather than a deficit model in which academic skills are seen as independent of discipline knowledge (Lea, 2008). In the College of Health and Biomedicine the two largest courses, nursing and paramedicine, were part of the FYC trial then rollout, working closely with ALL. In 2014 the primary responsibility of the FYC was to further embed academic support and development through working collaboratively with discipline and ALL lecturers. In subsequent years the aim was to extend the reach of the academic support and development provision to greater numbers of students. Rather than running sessions that students could choose to attend, sessions ran within students’ allocated tutorial times. Sessions commenced in Orientation week and continued throughout both semesters in units of study specifically chosen for their previous high fail rates.

Advising for Success https://www.youtube.com/embed/HaKw3PVdZd4?width=640&height=374&iframe=true

Examples of collaboration Post Entry English Language Assessment (PELA) Peer Assisted Study Sessions First year teaching community of practice Review of the first year student experience Engagement in the ‘Steps to Success’ – extended orientation program

Evaluation Evaluation has been both qualitative and quantitative and at unit and College level which has assisted in highlighting the many ways the FYCs and their ALL partners have been effective. • Students expressed a higher than National satisfaction with academic staff although a low satisfaction with administrative staff. • Over 80% expressed they would come to VU if they had to start again • Bioscience was classed as a ‘difficult’ unit, with a high content to learn The pattern of response from the surveyed students was encouraging. Most were positive about their first-year experience. There was a sense of their satisfaction and with their educational experience so far. There were some negative findings but, for most at least, students commented the course was turning out to be as good as they had hoped and, in some ways, better.

Impact Nursing Paramedicine

Pass rates comparison for three targeted units of study