What success means? Enhancing student experience First-time student (further/higher education) Student satisfaction Employment, business and industry Education for change

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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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References
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