Seen and Supported: Implementing a University-Wide Transition Framework to Improve First-Year Success
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: A Transition Pedagogy framework acknowledges students’ transition into university from diverse backgrounds, with varied preparedness for studying at university. It puts the onus on the university to provide a seamless experience, and specifies that initiatives should be curriculum-centred, promote diversity and include a whole-of-institution approach. The aim of this project was to increase commencing student success by embedding principles of transition pedagogy throughout the first-year curriculum. This article outlines the components of a university-wide Transition Framework that was developed at a large Australian regional university, based on our interpretation of transition pedagogy, to unify academics and professional staff in supporting first-year students. Since the project commenced in 2017, both internal and online commencing success rates have increased. A key finding is the importance of a coordinated approach to identifying disengaged students and providing targeted support at multiple time points early in the semester to reduce the number of fail grades.
Source: Student Success
DOI: 10.63608/ssj.3761
Authors: Kelly Linden, Sarah Teakel, Neil Van der Ploeg
Institution: Charles Sturt University
Language: English
Subfield: Education
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4416589841