Increasing Life Chances

Testing Times, university leaders discuss the future of assessment. A recap of the latest conversation in the Studiosity Symposium 'Students First'.

A literature review into the successes and challenges of digital peer support in universities reveals minimum requirements for student satisfaction as well as recommendations to integrate and normalise help seeking.

Professor Holness describes in detail Roehampton's best practice approach for integrating formative feedback into assessment, and integrating support into the student experience. Prof Marilyn Holness, OBE, is Professor of Education Engagement and Practice and Director of Student Engagement at the University of Roehampton.

Does it matter where students seek help, or just that they do? Do different students use different types of services, or do they shop around? Is it just the students who would succeed anyway who are accessing these services, or does this support make the difference? Jennifer Lawrence from the University of New England dives into the data, in this part of the 'Students First' Studiosity Symposium web series.

Dr Stephen Wan, Lead Researcher at CSIRO Data61 introduces the Data61 - Studiosity partnership that will see world-first changes to personal, timely study support.

For International Women's Week, women from the Studiosity team met with with leaders in education and business, to hear from two of the worlds-most incredible and determined women, Dr Kekenya Ntaiya and Mahboba Rawi OAM, at the Sydney Cricket Ground. Here's what we learned.

This is why the Technology Acceptance Model should be getting more air time with educators implementing important online student services and other critical EdTech. And what are the recpurcsusions of ignoring technology acceptance rates?

Here are five things every HSC student should be doing when they are staring down at the exam page in the HSC English exam.

Most plagiarism is unintentional, so what can be done for the majority of students trying to do the right thing? This new, integrated feedback feature helps universities improve student confidence and capability. So what is it?

If a student gets help, they do better. CQUniversity's Chris Veraa brought the 'Students First' Symposium three years (2017, 2018, 2019) worth of data on Studiosity users: retention, academic success, rates of unit failure, and also how students’ anecdotal feedback compares to academic outcomes. | Studiosity