Efficacy of the Learning Skills Workshop on New Learners' Academic Performance and Persistence In Open University Malaysia (OUM)
Improving the first semester learners' experience has been part of a broader set of initiatives to increase learner retention and achievement in Open University Malaysia (OUM). One set of challenges faced by OUM in this respect is to help learners develop appropriate expectations initially a...
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2007
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| Online Access: | http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/95/1/Efficacy_of_LSW2007.pdf http://library.oum.edu.my/repository/95/ |
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| Summary: | Improving the first semester learners' experience has been part of a broader set of
initiatives to increase learner retention and achievement in Open University Malaysia (OUM). One
set of challenges faced by OUM in this respect is to help learners develop appropriate expectations
initially and then to ensure that the quality of learners' experience, once they are already in is as
positive as it can possibly be. In meeting the challenges, the Centre for Student Affairs (CSA) at
OUM has carefully crafted and designed several programmes which prepares them to be effective
ODL learners.. This paper examines the efficacy of a Learning Skill Workshop (an orientation
programme) on the new learners' academic performance, measured in terms of Grade Point
Average (GPA) as well as their persistence in the programme, i.e. whether they go through the
whole semester workload up to sitting for the final examination and followed through to the reregistration
process and become an active learner in the subsequent semester. The study involves
the collection of data of new learners who attend the Learning Skill Workshop, labeled as the
�treatment� group and the remaining new learners who do not attend as the �control� group. The
results indicate that the learning skill workshop has a positive impact on both learner performance
as well as learner persistence. When the likelihood of success of the new learners is increased, so
will their chances of completing their undergraduate education. |
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