{"id":298541,"date":"2022-01-20T17:10:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-20T22:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yfile.news.yorku.ca\/?p=298541"},"modified":"2025-04-02T13:20:48","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T17:20:48","slug":"acquiring-the-skills-to-succeed-at-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/2022\/01\/20\/acquiring-the-skills-to-succeed-at-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Acquiring the skills to succeed at university"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Andrew Skelton<\/strong>, an assistant professor in the teaching stream in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics in the Faculty of Science, is working to boost learning opportunities for first-year students interested in enhancing their study skills.<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-color\" style=\"color:#e31837\"><strong><em>By Elaine Smith<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/yfile.news.yorku.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Andrew-Skelton-outdoor-image.jpg\" alt=\"Andrew Skelton\" class=\"wp-image-298550\" width=\"315\" height=\"392\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/889\/2022\/01\/Andrew-Skelton-outdoor-image.jpg 630w, https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/yfile\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/889\/2022\/01\/Andrew-Skelton-outdoor-image-321x400.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 315px) 100vw, 315px\" \/><figcaption>Andrew Skelton<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Having taught high school earlier in his career, <strong>Andrew Skelton<\/strong> saw first-hand the gaps between a graduating student\u2019s experience and the demands of a university education and set out to bridge them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThere are big changes in study skills, life skills and learning skills and students need to acquire the ability to reflect and adjust,\u201d said Skelton, an assistant professor, teaching stream, in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at York University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the United States, it is quite common to find first-year seminar courses, taken for credit by first-semester undergraduates. These courses have a small faculty-student ratio (30:1) and focus on assisting students to develop practical and intellectual skills that will enhance their university experience. Such courses are not prevalent in Canada, so Skelton began pondering how a Canadian model might look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll over the York campus, there is experience in helping students develop these skills, but how do we get students to take advantage of these resources?\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His solution was to develop stand-alone modules that could easily fit into a first-year course. The models address three types of student needs: mathematical skills (how to learn from homework problems, effective mathematical communication, multiple representations and other aids); study skills (avoiding procrastination, notetaking and the neuroscience of learning); and, life skills (managing academic stress, how to send an email and combating perfectionism).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is a project that has been three years in the making. The first year was funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/research\/funding-opportunities\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/research\/funding-opportunities\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Junior Faculty Fund in the Faculty of Science<\/a>. Skelton had three summer students work with him to develop proof of concept. Feedback from the first group of students led Skelton to modify the offerings. The second year was funded by an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/aifprojects\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/aifprojects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Academic Innovation Fund<\/a> (AIF) grant and was focused on balancing the cost and benefit to the students to create a product they would find valuable. Students in the second group perceived that the value of the modules had significantly increased, while the cost relative to the value had decreased significantly. In other words, the redesign process was effective in better optimizing student motivation and effort.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI wanted them to be of benefit to students in terms of time and emotional energy and wanted to determine how to advertise them to students and how they would figure into a student\u2019s grade,\u201d Skelton said. \u201cIn doing so, I realized they were built for me and my teaching style and weren\u2019t transferable to other professors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The third year of his project, funded by a grant from <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ecampusontario.ca\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ecampusontario.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\">eCampus Ontario<\/a> (and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/students\/future-students\/york-science-scholarships-and-awards\/york-science-scholars-award-yssa\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.yorku.ca\/science\/students\/future-students\/york-science-scholarships-and-awards\/york-science-scholars-award-yssa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">York Science Scholars Award<\/a> program), focused on making the modules suitable for use by any faculty member and on balancing the cost and benefit to the faculty members so more would adapt the product to their courses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIf you, as a faculty member, have an interest in helping the students in your course with these learning skills, I have a product that you can adapt to your teaching style,\u201d Skelton said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Data were collected over each year of the project and have produced interesting results. There was, for example, a significant correlation between the number of modules completed proactively and the final grade in the course. This gives support to the advice that faculty often share with students: it\u2019s a good idea to set small goals if you want to see long-term change. Trying to submit just one more thing proactively is a perfectly reasonable goal. Each proactive submission is associated with an increase in average academic performance, so start small and build from there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Jermin Bates<\/strong>, a 2020 alumna with a BA in mathematics and education, spent two years working with Skelton in developing the modules for e-class, turning them into portable modules and tracking the cost and benefit to students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was great to see the results of the modules and how effective they were,\u201d she said. \u201cEspecially after we redeveloped them, we saw an increase in overall student grades. I wish I\u2019d had these modules as a first-year student. It\u2019s tough for a lot of us as we go through it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Skelton is currently using the modules with 1,200 first-year students and will give the modules a final tweak, once he sees the impact they have in the classroom. In February 2022, the modules will be posted online on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecampusontario.ca\/\" data-type=\"URL\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ecampusontario.ca\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">eCampus Ontario<\/a> website, so they are available to faculty anywhere. In creating the eCampus Ontario modules, Skelton reached out to colleagues at the University of Guelph and Western University to collaborate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt was nice to bring perspectives from other universities to the product,\u201d Skelton said. \u201cAlthough the student demographics there might differ, all students need these skills.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The modules are designed so that students can do them independently or as part of a course.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cFaculty can accompany them with instructional activities and make them part of the grade,\u201d Skelton said. \u201cFor example, they can ask students to do five of 20 possible activities and make each of them count for one per cent of the grade. You don\u2019t want there to be such high stakes that they infringe on the course content.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He thoroughly enjoys teaching first-year students and hopes that these modules will smooth their journeys from incoming students to graduates.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s such fun to see them transition and grow,\u201d Skelton said. \u201cBy fourth year, they are completely different people.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Bates, too, is a different person after working with Skelton. She had previously planned to pursue a degree in education but is now considering attending graduate school to obtain a more research-based degree.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis opened my eyes to the possibilities of research,\u201d said Bates.  \u201cI don\u2019t think I realized how broad it was. 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