- Title
- Engaging mature-aged learners: evaluating the engagement of students in the open access Open Foundation enabling program
- Creator
- Christensen, Joyleen; Hunt, Jaime W.
- Relation
- 2016 FABENZ 3rd Biennal Conference. Procceeding from FABENZ conference 2016 (Auckland, New Zealand 1-2 December, 2016) p. 1-16
- Relation
- http://fabenz.org.nz/proceeding-from-fabenz-conference-2016/
- Publisher
- Founding and Bridging Educators New Zealand (FABENZ)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- This paper documents a research project on student engagement that was conducted in the Open Foundation enabling program offered by the English Language and Foundation Studies Centre at the University of Newcastle, Australia. While most of the national and institutional studies on student engagement in Australia completed to date have focused on undergraduate students, this project adds to the small but growing number of studies on student engagement in open-access enabling programs. Results indicate that factors beyond the control of the university, such as paid employment, First-in-Family status, and time pressure may have the most significant impact upon engagement in learning of students from equity groups typically underrepresented in tertiary education.
- Subject
- student engagement; tertiary education; Australia; mature-aged students
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1346237
- Identifier
- uon:29814
- Language
- eng
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