The Retention Team is continually trying to understand how best to improve student outcomes, particularly those from structurally disadvantaged equity groups.
Our work crosses multiple aspects of student life and university systems, and as such our research focus uses different lenses to view the challenges of understanding what helps students succeed.
These include the factors contributing to completely disengaged students, targeted support of disengaged students using learning analytics and non-submission of early assessment items to identify students, and assessment support with embedded tutors.
Our research can be placed in one of three areas
Teakel, S., Linden, K., & Bradshaw, E. R. (2024). Empowering first-year social work students: improving student success and retention with a discipline-specific tutor to provide feedforward on assessments. Social Work Education, 1-19.
van der Ploeg, N., Linden K., & Noelia Roman (2024) Understanding university failure: Zero-fails, COVID-19 and commencing student outcomes at an Australian University, Higher Education Review and Development.
Gibbs, L., Linden, K., Teakel, S., & Dell, E. (2024). Initiatives supporting student retention in early childhood teacher education qualifications. Australasian Journal of Early Childhood, 49(1), 17-31. https://doi.org/10.1177/18369391231220050
Linden, K., Teakel, S., & Clatworthy, D. (2024) Embedded tutors: Enhancing student success and academic integrity with a pedagogy of kindness in first-year university. Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching, 7(Sp. Iss. 1). https://doi.org/10.37074/jalt.2024.7.S1.4
Irwin, P., Magee, D., Weiley, S., Teakel, S., & Linden, K. (2024). Improving student success and retention in first-year nursing through embedded tutor support. Nurse Education Today, 106134. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nedt.2024.106134
Linden K., Neil van der Ploeg & Noelia Roman (2023) Explainable learning analytics to identify disengaged students early in semester: an intervention supporting widening participation, Journal of Higher Education Policy and Management, DOI: 10.1080/1360080X.2023.2212418
Teakel, S., Linden, K., Neil van der Ploeg & Noelia Roman (2023) Embedding equity: online tutor support to provide effective feedforward on assessments, Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2023.2232955
Linden, K. (2022). Improving student retention by providing targeted support to university students who do not submit an early assessment item. A practice report. Student Success, 13(1), 67-73.
https://search.informit.org/doi/abs/10.3316/informit.356405806663167
Linden K., Teakel S., & Van der Ploeg, N. (2022). Improving student success with online embedded tutor support in first-year subjects. “A practice report.” Student Success, 13(2), 42–50.
https://search.informit.org/doi/10.3316/informit.544300688830856
Linden, K., Van Der Ploeg, N., & Hicks, B. (2021, December). Ghostbusters: Using learning analytics and early assessment design to identify and support ghost students. In Back to the Future–ASCILITE ‘21.
Hicks, B., Linden, K., & Van Der Ploeg, N. (2021, December). Opportunities to improve learning analytics for student support when using online assessment tools. In Back to the Future–ASCILITE ‘21.
Linden, K., Van Der Ploeg, N., Hicks, B., & Locke, K. (2021, December). Increasing student grades in large online subjects: Combining tutorial support with technology. In Back to the Future–ASCILITE ‘21.
Linden, K., van der Ploeg, N., Hicks, B., & Gonzalez, P. (2020). Peering into the crystal ball of the disengaged: What happens to students that do not submit an early assessment item?. In 37th International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education: ASCILITE 2020 (pp. 48-53). ASCILITE.
van der Ploeg, N., Linden, K., Hicks, B., & Gonzalez, P. Widening the net to reduce the debt: Reducing student debt by increasing identification of completely disengaged students. In 37th International Conference of Innovation, Practice and Research in the Use of Educational Technologies in Tertiary Education: ASCILITE 2020
Research interests
Student retention, widening participation, learning analytics.
Research interests
Student retention, student success and transition, learning analytics, causal modelling, data visualisation
Research interests
Early Assessment Item design, assessment feedback/feedforward, first year subject development and delivery, course redesign, online technology development and implementation, student success and transition, student retention.
Research interests
Student retention, student success and transition, medical science and pathology, tutoring programs and initiatives in learning and teaching in higher education.
