Smooth transition between secondary and higher education – a good practice

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Portugal's ISCAP higher education institution decided to adapt a good practice from Bury College in the UK to help smooth students' transition from secondary to higher education. They created a website called "Live the Best @ ISCAP" with information on academic life, logistics, transportation, available services, and academic support. An evaluation found that students rated the website highly and it was useful, though it could be improved by adding more resources, videos of other programs, and practical information. The creators plan to disseminate and continuously improve the site to further help reduce early school leaving.

WORKING TOGETHER TO REDUCE EARLY SCHOOL LEAVING
5 COUNTRIES, 2 YEARS, 1 AIM
Smooth transition between secondary and
higher education – a good practice
June 2015
Anabela Mesquita
Paulino Silva
Diana Vieira
Portugal

Introduction
Measures against ESL addressed in the report from the European Commission
(2013) (http://ec.europa.eu/education/policy/strategic-framework/doc/esl-group-
report_en.pdf)

Smooth transition between
educational levels
Transition between educational levels is critical for students - a time when they
move from often smaller and more supportive schools to larger schools, where the
academic and social demands are higher.
The cost of failing is high. Unsuccessful school transitions contribute to high
dropout rates, low on-time graduation rates and low achievement.
Bury College already had experience in this area and had developed a website to
deal with this situation - http://bethebest.burycollege.ac.uk/
Portugal – ISCAP (higher education) - decided to import and adapt this good
practice
Necessary to provide tools and support to smooth this transition.

Participants
Inschool Project Team (Anabela, Diana and Paulino)
A Web Solutions Company (Bynet)
ISCAP Students Union
Comissions of students from each degree
Other ISCAP students

BE HERE
APARECE
Logistics of the school
Eg. Canteen, libray, etc.

BE ON BOARD
ENTRA A BORDO
Location and
how to get there

BE PREPARED
PREPARA-TE
Services available
and their timetable

BE SUPPORTED
APOIA-TE
Support on
how to study

Website -
http://www.livethebesta
tiscap.com/

Lessons learned
When the work does not depend only on us, there will always be delays 
Student’s union changed, students changed
Translations (made by students) were not ready on time
The solution for the private part took more time to be identified and operationalized
than we expected
Other participants had other priorities
All translations needed to be revised by teachers
Videos were not ready on time

Evaluation of the website
Developed a survey. Questions based on literature review
Received 43 responses
Students graded this website with 8 / 10. The majority graded it between 7 and 10.

STRENGTHS WEAKNESSES
Website very dynamic and attractive
Video tour only for one master (want to see
videos of other courses)
Links provided are useful
The list of resources is not complete
Excellent structure of menus and buttons
Images with quality
There are also some functionalities that the
site does not have and respondents would
like to find them there (but didn’t say what
were those functionalities)
Information is concise, important and
relevant
Involvement of different stakeholders –
teachers, students, students’ union
Accessible
Need to disseminate the existence of the siteTexts are easy to read, graphs and
animation are used in an adequate way
The site meets students’ needs One respondent said that the website has too
much information on some issues and scarce
on othersThe content of the site is useful

Suggestions for improvement
Add practical informations such as:
How to acquire the card to enter the parking
Create a FAQ section
Access to important documents
Ex. Form to ask the bus pass sub23

Future
Disseminate its existence – facebook, teachers, students
Continuously improve the website
Compare resuls with those of the Bury colleage (concerning the website). Identify
differences and similarities.
In 6 months -re-evaluate its impact in early school leaving

http://www.livethebestatiscap.com
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