Student Engagement Toolkit for planning classroom and strategic interventions

Student engagement underlies of our relationship with students and our decision making. Many publications discuss engagement, but relatively few interventions have good evidence of success. A QAA Cymru collaborative engagement projects led by Bangor University and Grwp Llandrillo Menai produced a toolkit of these good quality interventions which is now available for use.

The toolkit includes the full corpus of high-quality interventions with direct links to full text papers. We have also organised the highest-ranked papers by the strategic questions they address, by the method used and, responding to student suggestions also included a separate category on learner wellbeing. The corpus also has a fast search capability through a structured tool.

The toolkit is available here:

English https://sites.google.com/gllm.ac.uk/v4-studentengagement/home
Cymraeg https://sites.google.com/view/cymraeg-v4/home/strategic-level

We hope you find it to be useful help understand your students’ engagement and to design evidence-based interventions.

Please contact the project lead with any queries or for advice on intervention design: Myfanwy.davies@bangor.ac.uk. An overview of the whole project, including focus group interviews can be found here:

English https://www.qaa.ac.uk/membership/collaborative-enhancement-projects/learning-and-teaching/student-engagement-in-learning

Cymraeg: https://www.qaa.ac.uk/cy/aelodaeth-qaa/collaborative-enhancement-projects/learning-and-teaching/ymgysylltiad-myfyrwyr-a-dysgu

Blogs reporting on the wider project and its links to work on inclusion and diversity can be found here:

https://www.qaa.ac.uk//en/news-events/blog/reclaiming-student-engagement-the-first-year-of-a-collaborative-approach-from-wales.

https://sites.google.com/port.ac.uk/qaa-bame-enhancementproject/bangor-university