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Halesowen College: Pre-enrolment assessment

Resource Type: 
eg
PID: 
eg:1283
Description: 

A project introducing a week long ‘Learnfest’ assessment course before the students enrol in Halesowen College.

Taxonomy: 
Practitioner Research and Evidence Hub: 
Yes
Principal focus of the project: 

The focus was to assess whether the students were team players, how they interacted with other students and how they interacted with staff – as well as doing literacy and numeracy assessments.

What is this about and what were the main findings: 

The Learnfest programme has improved retention levels, with far fewer students transferring to other courses. Retention and achievement have also improved significantly. Data was gathered through observation of practice. 

Number of learner participants: 
N/A
Number of staff participants: 
N/A
Number of organisation participants: 
1
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