Development and evaluation of student transition writing mentoring
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Authors | Elander, James, Westrup, Rebecca, Caldwell, Teresa, Foxcroft, Angela, Norton, Lin, Crooks, Sarah and Wardley, Karen |
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Abstract | Flying Start, an inter-institutional NTFS project, developed and evaluated programmes in which university students mentored A-level and other pre-university students in academic writing. Feedback showed that the pre-university mentees found the mentors easy to talk to and believed the programme would help them write better at university. Focus groups revealed that mentees would have liked better preparation for the programmes; that interpersonal mentor-mentee interactions affected both sets of students’ experiences; and that mentees valued working with mentors on the aspects of writing that were programme targets. Before-and-after measures showed limited changes in approaches to learning, no changes in understanding of the core criteria for university writing, but small improvements in quality of writing. The evaluation provides the basis for recommendations about wider use of pre-university interventions in academic writing, and about ways the approach could be adapted for different settings. |
Keywords | Student mentoring; Transition; Academic writing; Approaches to learning |
Year | 2011 |
Publisher | Oxford Centre for Staff and Learning Development |
Web address (URL) | http://hdl.handle.net/10545/625435 |
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Publication dates | 01 Sep 2011 |
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Deposited | 01 Dec 2020, 08:57 |
Accepted | 01 Sep 2010 |
Rights | Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International |
Contributors | University of Derby and Liverpool Hope University |
https://repository.derby.ac.uk/item/9500w/development-and-evaluation-of-student-transition-writing-mentoring
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