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Upping Grades?Upgrade’s contribution
to the student experience
‘The help is helpful!’
‘Upgrade is the best idea the university could have. People @ Upgrade are professionals who help you as much as possible in understanding your work’
‘I thought it was good then they handed out handouts that you can use whist doing the work’
‘When I first attended Upgrade I was only achieving a Grade C but now I am a Grade B+ which I know will even get better with the help of Upgrade’
In 2006/07 Upgrade has delivered
1403 sessions to
744 students
What’s the draw?
Conversation
Relief - sharing anxieties
Non-judgemental / non-assessed / outside
Easy access
Unpacking the task and expectations
Navigating Module Handbooks
BSLES projects at Upgrade
1 Materials development
Strand 1: Referencing Guide for Education students
(adapted from ‘How to reference for Health and Social Care students’)
Strand 2: Doing critical
A guide to ‘writing critically’ for students new to it
2 Resit Support Project: LS / SSL / HSC
Links and collaborative work
Links
Dyslexia service: support work + referrals
ICELS: 1 hour p/w ICELS staff
Specific collaborations (Sem 2 07)
PASS (Life Sciences) – study skills and Maths advice
Referencing workshops (Business School)
Supporting Basic Maths (non-Maths students)
Graduate Writing Workshops (Graduate Centre)
INT 21%(154)
INT 21%(154)
EU 11%(81)
EU 11%(81)
UK 68%
(493)
UK 68%
(493)
Upgrade use by permanent residence 2006/07
Semester 1
EU 12%(44)
EU 12%(44)
UK 68%
(248)
UK 68%
(248)INT 20%
(72)
INT 20%(72)
Semester 2
Tutorial sessions by campus 2006/07
Semester 1 Semester 2
GL (Library foyer)
507
GL (Library foyer)
595
SS 29
SS 51
WH 25W
H 34
MR 22
MR
26
HH
68
HH
36
Upgrade Tutorial Sessions by Week
Semester 1 2006-2007
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ssio
ns
Week
Upgrade Tutorial Sessions by Week
Semester 2 2006-2007
Se
ssio
ns
Week
Bringing queries … What we do and don’t do!
Early weeks
What do I have to do? What does this mean?
Help me plan ...
Later
Check this through …
Help – it’s due in at 4.00!
Fix my English …
Tutorial sessions by year / level of study 2006/07
Tutorial sessions Semester 1 2006/07 by School
Tutorial sessions Semester 2 2006/07 by School
Upping grades?
Does the data show it?
We see it …
Students know it …
‘I was getting B+s, then after using UpgradeI started getting A grades’
(Natalie, Observe, Spring 2007 issue 2)
Upgrade
Gotta be a better student experience ….
