Evaluating academic skill programs - which way?

Abstract

The evaluation of academic skill support programs presents a number of challenges. Many of these challenges are directly related to the complex interaction of events that determine a student's outcome; and many of these are beyond the scope of learning support. The literature reports a variety of approaches to evaluating academic skill support programs, including user rate, student survey on usefulness and satisfaction, teacher reflection, retention rate, learning approaches and student achievement. ... This roundtable invites discussion about this approach and welcomes input about other approaches currently in use to evaluate academic skills programs targeting first year students.