Student perspectives on their engagement with a mathematics support centre website.

Bhaird, Ciarán Mac an; Mulligan, Peter; O'Malley, James

doi:10.21100/msor.v18i3.1045

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“…The second most common response was if the resources were more tailored to respondents' courses, with the majority of these comments coming from higher year students. These findings are consistent with what we found in Mac an Bhaird et al (2020), when respondents were asked what would encourage them to use the MSC website and MSC resources.…”

Section: Discussion Conclusion and Future Worksupporting

confidence: 90%

“…We believe that our limited findings bolster one of the recommendations from Mac an Bhaird et al (2020), that institutions should consider the provision of training to students on appropriate use of online resources as part of their education. There appears to be a need, amongst our student population at least, to be guided on how to source and evaluate online resources, as well as how to use them in conjunction with more traditional forms for learning.…”

Section: Discussion Conclusion and Future Workmentioning

confidence: 52%

“…The first section, which is reported on in this paper, mainly focussed on students' use of online resources. The second part related to the MSC website and is reported on separately (Mac an Bhaird et al, 2020).…”

Section: Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this paper, we provide a brief overview of the rationale for and methodology of our study. These are presented in more detail in Mac an Bhaird et al (2020). The main focus of this paper is on the results, and a discussion on how this small study may link to literature and further research regarding why certain groups of students use online resources in particular ways.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In Mac an Bhaird et al (2020), we present an evaluation of the Mathematics Support Centre (MSC) website (http://supportcentre.maths.nuim.ie/) at Maynooth University (MU). The evaluation is based on findings from a survey issued to MU undergraduates in 2018.…”

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confidence: 99%

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In this paper we consider survey results which focus on student use of online resources, where all respondents were attendees of a Mathematics Support Centre. We see that while most respondents are engaging with online resources, some are not using resources in an appropriate fashion. We discuss how these preliminary findings might inform discussions on the merits, or otherwise, of institutions providing training for students on their use of online materials. We also identify several areas of potential further research.

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Mathematics Support Centres are available in the majority of Higher Education Institutions in Ireland and the UK. Whilst the online presence of these centres appears to be increasing, there is little research to date which considers its breadth or effectiveness. In this paper we consider the results of a survey on the online presence of support centres in Ireland and the UK. We discuss the opportunities that arise from such a presence, the challenges that exist and what the results of the survey mean for individual practitioners and the wider mathematics support community.

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The development of mathematics support: teaching and learning practices, scholarship and communities

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Mathematics support for students is an innovation in the teaching and learning of mathematics which now plays a vital role in their learning experience and which is provided by most universities in the United Kingdom, and increasingly in other parts of the world. This paper describes and reviews research into the development of this provision over the last 30 years or so, providing a rationale for its establishment in terms of student under-preparedness for the mathematical demands of university study, widening participation in higher education and the increasing importance of mathematical and statistical skills to a very wide range of disciplines. The most common model used to provide mathematics support is a 'drop-in' centre which offers one-to-one support to students who attend to see an

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Student perspectives on their engagement with a mathematics support centre website.

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Mathematics support centre attendees and their use of online resources

Mathematics support centre attendees and their use of online resources

Mathematics support centres’ online presence: provision in Ireland and the UK in 2018

The development of mathematics support: teaching and learning practices, scholarship and communities

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