Improving student retention by providing targeted support to university students who do not submit an early assessment item. A practice report

K Linden - Student Success, 2022 - search.informit.org
The Charles Sturt University Retention Team has developed, tested, evaluated, and refined
a retention model through 14 action-research cycles from 2017-2021. The project has …

Patterns of special consideration requests at a UK university: reasons given and associations with demographic factors

P Jenkins - Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Students who are unable to complete an assessment due to circumstances beyond their
control (eg illness) are often asked to submit a request for special consideration. However …

Ghostbusters: Using learning analytics and early assessment design to identify and support ghost students

K Linden, N Van Der Ploeg… - ASCILITE Publications, 2021 - publications.ascilite.org
Ghosting is a student behaviour characterised by enrolling in a subject but never
participating. Hence, a ghost student who remains enrolled receives a zero-fail grade. From …

Increasing student grades in large online subjects: Combining tutorial support with technology

K Linden, N Van Der Ploeg, B Hicks… - ASCILITE …, 2021 - publications.ascilite.org
Three large first-year undergraduate subjects with 240-517 enrolled students were selected
to participate in this pilot study. A meeting scheduling tool was embedded in the learning …

Opportunities to improve learning analytics for student support when using online assessment tools

B Hicks, K Linden… - ASCILITE Publications, 2021 - publications.ascilite.org
Knowing when a student is being productive in an online learning environment is
challenging to discern from online trace data. Custom built assessment tools, integrated into …