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Prosjektmanager Harald Åge Sæthre @haas1 University of Bergen Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

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Prosjektleder Harald Åge Sæthre

@haas1

Prosjektmanager Harald Åge Sæthre

University of Bergen Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences

A systematic approach to students' success

European First Year Experience Nottingham 2014 Monday 9th June 13.45 – 14.45 Workshop


Sæthre has earlier worked as a school teacher, but mainly as an academic advisor and leader of the Section of Student and Academic Affairs. He has especially looked to the Anglo-American world for experience and has apart from international conferences also visited universities in USA, UK and Australia. Works of Tinto, Pascarella, Terenzini and Astin are the main inspiration. Especially Tinto’s longitudinal model of institutional departure is a basic instrument.

My name is Harald Åge Sæthre and I work as a Project Manager at the Section of Student and Academic Affairs, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, University of Bergen, Norway.

Contact information: Harald Åge Sæthre Project Manager Student and Academic Affairs TLF. 47 55 582024 FAX. 47 55 589666 e-mail: [email protected] Address: Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences University of Bergen Postboks 7800 5020 Bergen Norway

I work with different projects throughout the curriculum, including recruiting campaigns, reception of new students, carrier guidance/job fares and alumni initiatives. My main goal is to recruit more and better students, and to get highest possible retention


The most comprehensive work is done in USA:

Tinto, V. (1993). Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition, 2nd Edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press Pascarella, E., Terenzini, P. (1991). How College Affects Students: Findings and Insights from Twenty Years of Research, San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Inc. Astin, A.W. (1993). What Matters in College: Four Critical Years Revisited. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass.


-I build most of my work on this:

Tinto, V. (1993). Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition, 2nd Edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press


Tinto, V 1993 Leaving College – Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition

side 114


• Not only the student • Universities can make a difference • External forces • Prosess over time • Reasons sums up for retention decision


Vincent Tinto’s longitudinal model of institutional departure shows that it is meaningful to look at all “forces” that act on the student through her or his studies. It also seems to be many different factors that together make a student leave.


Tinto, V 1993 Leaving College – Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition

side 114


Before the students start their studies The knowledge and experience students bring with them, is in many cases crucial to their success.


- Entry Requirements - Information - Do we think induction or admission before students enter


First semester and reception of new students Normally, you will find the highest drop-out rate in the first semester, and those who continue will build their success on their experience from the first months.


5-6 first weeks detach establish

Most crucial


The social part is too important to be left to the students alone!

The most important is the psychosocial learning environment where students will actually learn.


- Inspiring Teachers But also: - Why should this subject be red and why now?

- Which doors will this program open? - further studies - work - Clear goal - key indicator of success


Children and young people have to “see themselves" in the field in the future

project Vilje-con-valg


Example

Science has a masculine image

Girls are afraid of being perceived as not feminine by choosing science and technology


Meteorology

From male-to female-dominated among new students

Dette bildet kan ikke vises for øyeblikket.


New image


Include – Take students seriously Is the student a resource or a client The student become one who represents your education They should say: We must – not; You must


External forces Parents, friends and society have an impact on the students’choices, participation and effort through their studies.


- Alumni - Labour – How easy do candidates get a job? - Media


Outside the campus Local students Social copying


First generation students Those who have studied and think they know the challenges of today's students Helicopter Parents


Urban areas – countryside Labour Market Rich and poor countrys – Loan, Tuition Trends / fashion


- Curriculum

- Education

- Examination

- Coordination

- Support services

- Information

- Hidden curruculum – varies

- Interior

- Economy

- and so on


Hidden curriculum There seem to be a hidden set of rules and norms in our universities that must be learned by students that want to succeed. Margolis (2001).


Becher og Trowler (2001):

People choose fields that are consistent with their learning styles and are further shaped to fit the learning norms of their field once they are in it. When there is a mismatch between the field’s learning norms and the individual’s learning styles, people will either change or leave the field. .


The steps of the ladder essential, but ...

- often the only thing that is being considered


Group discussion Imagine this scenario: Your analyses show that many students leave between second and third semester. Of this reason you arrange for a focus group in middle of the second semester. What will you ask students in the focus group? Use the model and find challenges in all areas that you would ask students about. Explain these challenges shortly to each other. Start with area 1 then 2 and so on. You are not supposed to formulate questions in English or go in depth on any issue. Try to see the big picture


Contact info: Twitter: Email: [email protected] And maybe next year in Bergen for EFYE 2015 -

http://www.uib.no/en/efye_2015

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