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Case Study D: Identifying Students in Need of Targeted Support

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This module (General Chemistry) has a large and very diverse cohort; with many students who have do not have a Leaving Certificate qualification in chemistry. It is also an Autumn semester module, so these students are only just being introduced to third-level modes of teaching and learning. As such, many of the students need support with the module. In addition to support provided by the module leaders and Department, they also have supports available to them in the Science Learning Centre in the University of Limerick. There they can visit postgraduate tutors with a background in chemistry for one-to-one or small group sessions, on a drop-in basis. It was not clear that the students who might most need the support, eg, those at risk of failing to progress, were made sufficiently aware of/were using these supports. Hence in Autumn semester 2016, the module leader, in conjunction with the Science Learning Centre (SLC), trialled a new collaborative approach. The module leader identified students who had poor module engagement (VLE visits, lab attendance) and quiz scores by week 4 of the semester. These students were then sent an email by the Coordinator of the SLC informing them of the SLC services. The Coordinator of the SLC then looked at impact of participation by all students for this module in SLC services. In the following Spring semester, there has been ongoing collaboration for two chemistry modules, one taught by the same lecturer. In this case students who had scored a C3 or less in the Autumn semester module were emailed and given the opportunity to attend specialised tutorials revising some of the material from the Autumn module that they would need for their spring modules. These revision tutorials ran for 4 weeks.

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