Slides from my talk at SLG Regional Event at City of London School, 27th Oct 2017. I spoke about the demands of HE and what first year students need at undergraduate level, what we teach them and how school librarians can prepare young people for transition to undergraduate study. Information about the event is at http://cilip.site-ym.com/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1024873&group=201313

1. Lost in Transition…
Preparing young people for HE
Presented by John Iona (MDX)
SLG Regional Training Day
27th October 2017

2. What’s on the map for today?
• What does a typical student lack?
• What do new undergrads need? What do we teach them?
• How is this framed?
• Opportunities… Preparing students for HE.

3. Hello

4. Middlesex
University (MDX)
• TEF
• Recruiting
• Teaching
• Variety of
courses

5. MDX Library
• Library facility – four
floors of magic
• Library catalogue
• Summon
• Databases
• Online resources
(Lynda.com, etc)
• Reading lists
• LibGuides

7. What does your typical A-level student lack?
What drives you crazy?
Similar challenges!!
How do we fix this?

8. What competencies, skills or attitudes does a
new undergraduate need?

9. Subject
knowledge
Academic writing
skills
Organised
Adaptable
Responsible and
independent
Engaged and pro-
active
Communication

10. What about the academic skills?
Where is the difference?
PSY1011: Knowledge telling vs. knowledge transformation

11. How does this translate into what I try to teach at
MDX?
What do I try to address?

12. What do new undergraduates need to learn?
Finding research
• Search skills – the classics
• Knowing where to start…

13. What do new undergraduates need to learn?
Accessing research
• Critical literacy
• Reading with purpose

14. What do new undergraduates need to learn?
Using research (and academic writing skills)
• Integrating research into their work
• Referencing and quotations

15. What do new undergraduates need to learn?
How might you/I/we go about this?

16. Opportunities: where might they be?
Academic skills and competencies:
• Course content – curriculum
• Learning outcomes
• Assessment criteria

17. Opportunities: Where do I start?
• What do new undergraduates need to learn?
• What are students being marked on?
• How do I do both?

18. Assessment criteria
PSY1011
First year workshops
delivered in core
module

19. Where is the hook? Where can I align?
• Keyword searching and
advanced search techniques
• The Library catalogue and
Summon
• Accessing and using databases
• Referencing
• Using different types of source
• Critical research skills
Skills
• Addressing the question
• Knowledge of relevant material
• Evaluation of theory and
research evidence
• Developing argument
• Accuracy
• Clarity of expression
• Organisation
Grades

20. Preparing students for HE.
Opportunities in your schools?
• Course content – curriculum
• Learning outcomes
• Assessment criteria

21. EPQ (AQA level three) – A potential gift
What skills and academic competencies
are relevant?

22. EPQ (AQA level three) – A potential gift
Learning outcomes

23. EPQ (AQA level three) – A potential gift
Curriculum

24. EPQ (AQA level three) – A potential gift
Assessment criteria (AOs)

25. EPQ (AQA level three) – A potential gift
Assessment criteria (AO2)

26. EPQ (AQA level three) – A potential gift
Assessment criteria (AO3)

27. Preparing students for HE.
Opportunities in your schools?
• Course content – curriculum
• Learning outcomes
• Assessment criteria
Discuss in pairs/groups? Feedback
examples?

28. Summary
• What does (or do we think) a typical first year student lack?
• What do new undergrads need? What do we teach them?
• How is this framed?
• Opportunities… Preparing students for HE.

29. Feeling lost? Questions/comments…
Contact
j.iona@mdx.ac.uk
@jionalib
MDX LibGuides
EPQ: www.Libguides.mdx.ac.uk/epq
Psychology: www.Libguides.mdx.ac.uk/psy