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Dispositions to Stay and to Succeed in Higher Education
Exploring Relationships for Success.
Jamie Thompson. Northumbria University
Dispositions to Stay and to Succeed(HEFCE / Paul Hamlyn)
• Partnership with Bedfordshire and Manchester
• Retention / Success : the seven ELLI dimensions of learning power
• Ambiguous results re. retention• Small significant relationship between first
year marks and two dimensions: Critical Curiosity and Meaning Making
Seven Dimensions of Learning Power (ELLI)
• Changing and learning• Meaning making• Critical curiosity• Creativity
• Learning relationships• Strategic awareness• Resilience
Being stuck & staticData accumulationPassivityBeing rule bound
Isolation & dependence
Being roboticFragility anddependence
Learning Relationships
• Qualitative theme pursued• Relationships between students• Relationships between students and staff• Perceived importance re. academic success
and student satisfaction
• Not new – but LOUD!
Self Authorship(Baxter Magolda)
• Authority free – taking responsibility and control for your life.
• Sometimes not achieved – routinely not achieved until late twenties.
• Can this process be made more successful, can it be accelerated in HE?
Model of Confidence and Competence
Self Authorship
contingentActionAction contingentCollaborationCollaboration RelationshipsRelationships
What is success in HE?
• As professionals what do we want for our students?
• As a sector what would we want to claim for the HE experience?
• What are successful outcomes in students’ terms?
Learning Relationships in HE
• How good are we at supporting and delivering learning relationships in HE?
• How do we currently do it well?
• How could we do it better?
(Learning Relationships checklist)
References• Baxter Magolda, M. B. (1999). Creating contexts for learning and self-authorship:
constructive-developmental pedagogy (1st ed.). Nashville, Tenn.: Vanderbilt University Press.
• Deakin Crick, R., Broadfoot, P., Claxton, G. (2004), Developing an Effective Lifelong Learning Inventory: the ELLI Project, Assessment in Education, 11 (3), pp. 247-270.
• Thompson J. et al (2011) ‘ ... they will look after their cognitive needs for themselves’: Understanding the importance of relationships in Higher Education. ELSIN Conference Proceedings, Antwerp, Belgium.
• Williamson K., Coughlin A., Small T. and Thompson J. (2012) My Learning Power: Using ELLI in Higher Education. Northumbria University.
• Thompson J. (2012) A Manifesto for Change in Higher Education in the UK. Northumbria University.
• Harding J. and Thompson J. (2012) Dispositions to Stay and to Succeed: Final report of the ‘What Works’ research project. Northumbria University
• Gower L. and Thompson J. (2102) A Good Practice Guide to Learning Relationships in Higher Education. Northumbria University