The document discusses a learning advising program at USQ Library that provides academic support services to students. A study found that student engagement with learning advisors correlated with improved student confidence, progression, and academic achievement. First-generation students in particular reported feeling a greater sense of control and self-efficacy after using the advising services. The learning advising program promotes student success by developing academic skills and personal growth in a shared effort between students, administrators, and staff.

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Learning Advising:
Supporting Student Success
USQ Library’s Student Development and Learning (SLD) team offers students online and face-to-face
access to academic learning services.
Students who engage with Learning Advisors
experience both cognitive and affective successes.
Kek et al. (forthcoming) found modest yet
i m p a c t f u l c o r r e l a t i o n s b e t w e e n s t u d e n t
engagement with learning advising and improved
student confidence, progression and academic
achievement.
First-generation students reported a greater sense of
control, self-efficacy and overcame a perceived lack
of cultural and social capital (Arendale, 2010;
Bourdieu & Passron, 2000) after using the learning
advising services:
§ Learning Advisor consultations “made me believe in
me at the time” - Student C: medium GPA, online and on-
campus mode.
§ “I can now hit an assignment without anxiety… I
think especially for an external [student] it’s like a
lifeline” - Student E: high GPA, off-campus mode.
• Learning advising contributes to student
success by promoting further opportunities for
academic skills development and personal
growth.
• Success is a shared responsibility between
administrators, academics, professional staff,
and the students themselves.
• Scholarly Information & Learning Services
builds upon a holistic and integrated service
model to provide quality learning support
initiatives. This support applies to both staff
and students.
Together, we work with you to maximise student
success at USQ and beyond.
References:
Arendale, D. R. (2010). Access at the crossroads: Learning assistance in higher education. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, Wiley.
Bourdieu, P., & Passron, J.C. (2000). Reproduction in education, society and culture (2 ed.). London: Sage Publication.
Kek, M. Y. C. A., Padro, F., Kimmins, L., Frederiks, A., & Ayriss, P. (Forthcoming). Exploring the contributions of co-curricular learning programs on
student success: The case with a learning advising program. Higher Education Research and Development.
Mark Emmerson, Eddie Thangavelu, Bronwen Dickson, Megan Kek, Lindy Kimmins,
Anita Frederiks, Elizabeth McCarthy, Aruna Devi & Douglas Eacersall
Our Learning Advisors are qualified academics with
extensive experience in student support, teaching,
and academic skills development. We support
undergraduate, postgraduate and research students
directly and indirectly through their academic
courses.
We work in close collaboration with students, course
lecturers, educational designers, liaison librarians
and other USQ staff to ensure that students achieve
quality learning outcomes.
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