START Handbook: How can I help my first-year students engage, persist and succeed?

This handbook features a collection of concrete activities and ideas that academics teaching in different programmes can use to:

• help first-year students learn to learn in ways required in higher education, and/or
• revise their own approaches to assessment, learning and teaching, in order to make higher education more inclusive and set diverse students up for success.

The handbook can be used primarily by academics who teach first-year students. However, it can also help those facilitating professional development at higher education institutions, since research-based ideas will be contextualised for different disciplines and expressed in language clear to those not trained as educators.

The START Handbook is one of the four results of the Erasmus+ project START, which aims to support teachers who help students transition from high school to higher education. START gathers a group of university teachers, faculty developers and professionals of education from six partner institutions: University of Groningen (the Netherlands), University College Dublin (Ireland), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), Université de Poitiers (France), University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and the Education for an Interdependent World European youth NGO (Belgium).

Contributors: Ro Aitken; Jelle Blijleven; Eileen Bowman; Julia Costa Lopez; Rachel Farrell; Marigel Garcia Lozano; Tatjana Hodnik; Ana Jiménez-Rivero; Taja Klemen; Marco Maicas; Alexandra Míguez-Souto; Jake Noel-Storr; Iciar Pablo-Lerchundi; Tracy Poelzer; Jakob Saje; Melina Solari Landa; and Dirk van der Geest   Reviewers: Eileen Bowman; Ro Aitken; and Marelle Rice 

Publisher: University of Groningen Press
Broerstraat 4 9712 CP Groningen

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