Q Success: supporting underrepresented students in transition
This report provides an analysis of Q Success, a first-year transition program designed to help incoming direct-entry undergraduate students at Queen's University in Ontario develop personal and academic skills through a series of seminars, delivered in-person and online in Fall 2015. A particular focus of the research was on the participation of students from historically underrepresented and marginalized populations. Outcome measures included retention rates, grade point average (GPA), a measure of thriving (the Thriving Quotient or TQ) and participants' ratings of the program. The specific ... Show more
Authors: Shaibah, Arig Al; Condra, Michael; Jama, Sadia; Stewart, Matthew
Published: Toronto, Ontario, Higher Education Quality Council of Ontario, 2017
Resource type: Government report or paper
Physical description: 32 p. (report) + [2] p. (summary)
Access item: http://www.heqco.ca/en-ca/Research/ResPub/Pages/Q-Success-Supporting-underrepresented-students-in-transition.aspx
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