QUT Workshop 2: Locating further evidence 10 May 2013

1. Establishing a framework for transforming student engagement, success and retention in Higher Education Institutions QUT Workshop 2: Locating further evidence10 May 2013 Karen Nelson, John Clarke, Ian Stoodley & Tracy Creagh Establishing a framework for transforming student engagement, success and retention in HEIs: An Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching funded project ID11-2056:2011-2013

2. Workshop Agenda • Brief overview of project: • Purpose & objectives, current status • Introduction to workshop process • Workshop activities • Locating further evidence of QUT’s practices that lead to student engagement • This is not a workshop on how to improve student retention • Debrief and close Establishing a framework for transforming student engagement, success and retention in HEIs: An Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching funded project ID11-2056:2011-2013

3. Project Overview • Student Engagement “the time and effort students devote to activities that are empirically linked to desired outcomes of college and what institutions do to induce studentsto participate in these activities (Kuh, 2001, 2003, 2009a)” • Focus institutional efforts on promoting learning engagement: QUT, UQ and Griffith (SCU, Newcastle) • Sustainable processes, contextual interpretation, transcend structures – distributed leadership, comprehensive (holistic) approach • Concept of a maturity model appealing • Discipline backgrounds, broad application, facilitates change Establishing a framework for transforming student engagement, success and retention in HEIs: An Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching funded project ID11-2056:2011-2013

4. Project Objectives • Develop a SESR Maturity Model (SESR-MM) • Design a SESR Maturity Assessment Inventory • Conduct the inventory and develop a series of Case Studies that explain and describe SESR practices in context • Publish Institutional Maturity Reports (for project team institutions) • Develop & publish a Sector SESR Maturity Model Report (model, inventory findings, case studies, tools) 2012 2013 Establishing a framework for transforming student engagement, success and retention in HEIs: An Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching funded project ID11-2056:2011-2013

5. Developing the model Category (5) Process (18) Practices (63) Establishing a framework for transforming student engagement, success and retention in HEIs: An Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching funded project ID11-2056:2011-2013

6. SESR – Maturity Model

7. Content Dimensions Adequacy Not adequate Partially adequate Largely adequate Fully adequate Optimising Monitoring practices Inst. Framing Planning Providing Establishing a framework for transforming student engagement, success and retention in HEIs: An Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching funded project ID11-2056:2011-2013

8. Assessing Institutional SESR Maturity

9. Evidence collection process Establishing a framework for transforming student engagement, success and retention in HEIs: An Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching funded project ID11-2056:2011-2013

10. Workshop tables Establishing a framework for transforming student engagement, success and retention in HEIs: An Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching funded project ID11-2056:2011-2013

11. Maturity Model Processes Establishing a framework for transforming student engagement, success and retention in HEIs: An Australian Government Office for Learning and Teaching funded project ID11-2056:2011-2013