Disparities in Student Attainment: A Tale of Two (City)

Universities

Professor Glynis CousinDr Debra Cureton

Overview

• Context• General Findings• Conceptual Issues• Working with Sensitive Issues• Interventions, Impacts and Outputs

Context

Funded by

Data Collection Data Findings

General Findings

Pedagogy

Cultural and Social Capital

Relationship

Psycho-social Processes

Conceptual Issues

• Categorisation and post-race approaches

• The Pygmalion effect & folk pedagogies (Bruner, 1996)

• Empowering student partners

Conceptual Developments

• The impact of the affective domain to learning and attainment

• The psychological contract (Rousseau, 2000)

• The lecturer interlocutor (Cousin, 2011)

Working with Sensitive Issues

Empowering MethodologiesPlayful Reflection

Interventions, Impacts and OutputsAction Research•Assessment Choice/ Type•Peer monitoring•Blind marking•Aspiration raising•The Advantage Module

Impacts•Accessible assignment briefs•Fit to submit criteria•Annual monitoring •Reduction of the attainment gap

Outputs•Information for parents website•How to guides: lecturers•How to videos: students

Contact Details

• Professor Glynis Cousin– G.Cousin@wlv.ac.uk

• Dr Debra Cureton– D.Cureton@wlv.ac.uk

• Website– www.wlv.ac.uk/disa