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Enhancing 2nd Year Transition: PDP and EI Strategies

Addressing challenges of moving to 2nd year at university with suggestions for improvement through Personal Development Planning (PDP) and Emotional Intelligence (EI) strategies. Key messages highlight student needs and potential solutions to combat disorientation and disengagement.

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Enhancing 2nd Year Transition: PDP and EI Strategies

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  1. The development of EI within PDP provision. Transitions within Higher Education Staff Briefing

  2. Overview • Highlight the problems of transitions within a programme of study at University • Focus on the move to 2nd year • Provide suggestions on how to improve this transition

  3. 2nd year experience • Increasingly colleagues are reporting students entering year 2 feel: • Disorientated • Badly prepared • Lack confidence • Abandoned by staff • Confused • Less optimistic & less accurate in their self-assessment than year 1 students • This issue has been reported in the UK and abroad

  4. “Sophomore slump” • Sophomores have some of the highest expectations & strongest needs of any group of students on campus (Juillerat, 1999) • Ignoring these needs can result in: • Higher attrition rates • Lower grades • Reduced motivation • Baker (1985) suggests students incorrectly believe college will be better than it actually is. The support they get in year 1 means reality does not ‘hit’ until year 2.

  5. What are the challenges specific to 2nd year? • Grades now count towards degree classification • Scope to make option choices • Expectation that students are now familiar with ALL aspects of the University • Staff expect a greater level of autonomy • Staff changes

  6. What is the impact of this? • Reduced motivation • Increase withdrawal • Attendance problems • Lowered grades at a time when the change in the level descriptors is raising the bar • = 2nd year disorientation

  7. 2nd year disorientation • Moving the goal posts ……who tells the students? • Increased autonomy …… who tells the students? • Taking responsibility …… who tells the students?

  8. How can this problem be addressed? • Year 2 Induction programme • Personal Development Planning • Emotional Intelligence awareness

  9. Year 2 Induction Programme (example) • 1 hour lecture • Welcome & congratulations • Skills map • Graduateness • Good & bad learning habits • Level descriptors • Taking responsibility • 3 hour work shop • Year 2 PDP • Emotional Intelligence linked to: • Assessment & feedback • Employability • Orientation to level 2 marking criteria

  10. Key messages • Transition times within University are stressful for students • Transparency around the changes and the rationale for them can help alleviate this • PDP & EI provide a logical mechanism to help address the issue

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