Title: Understanding Engagement and Performance of Social Mobility Students

Speaker: Lory Barile, Neil Lloyd and Ramkumar Govindaswamy

Abstract: One of the guiding principles to inclusive education is to improve participation and outcomes for all students and ensure that all students are able to achieve their potential. Effective data monitoring is key to this and to ensure that change is transformative and sustained. This study extends the existing literature on ‘mobilities in Higher Education ’ by looking at the extent to which Economics students from social mobility backgrounds at the University of Warwick engage and perform within their programme of studies. The paper will provide a contribution to the literature by:

1) Analysing the relationship between student engagement and performance using a Revealed Preferences Approach and considering a) how students’ characteristics (e.g., socioeconomic and pre-university performance) affect students’ (online and in-person) engagement and b) how this links to students’ performance.

2) Investigating how different types of assessments (e.g., MCQ, Essays, Group tasks) impact engagement and performance.

Organised by Subhasish Dey