Conference presentation
Increasing access and opportunity: Nesting Enabling programs in senior schooling
2025 FABENZ 7th Biennial Conference, 7th (Wellington, New Zealand, 08/12/2025–09/12/2025)
08/12/2025
Metrics
1 Record Views
Abstract
In early 2024, four Australian universities (Edith Cowan, Murdoch, Southern Queensland, and Southern Cross) collaborated on a national benchmarking project examining in-school Enabling courses, supported by ACSES funding. Using NAEEA’s benchmarking framework, this first-of-its-kind study responded to the Universities Accord Final Report’s call for greater equity in higher education access. The project aimed to understand models of embedded high school Enabling programs by benchmarking and calibrating outcomes, assessments, and grading. Benchmarking revealed strong consistency across institutions in course design, partnership models and learning goals. This presentation shares key findings, including insights into best practice in designing embedded programs, student and educator perceptions on the efficacy of these programs as preparatory for university and outcome data, to showcase best practices for creating rigorous, supportive pathways to further study.
Details
- Title
- Increasing access and opportunity: Nesting Enabling programs in senior schooling
- Creators
- Angela Jones (Author) - Edith Cowan UniversityFabiane Ramos (Author) - Edith Cowan UniversityFiona Navin (Author) - Edith Cowan UniversitySelena Dhondea-Tenakov (Author) - Edith Cowan UniversityMIchael Howie (Author) - Edith Cowan UniversityShaz Attree (Author) - Edith Cowan UniversityJoanne Lisciandro (Author) - Edith Cowan UniversityAnita Maclaurin (Author) - Murdoch UniversityJohanna Nieuwoudt Dr (Author) - Southern Cross University
- Conference
- 2025 FABENZ 7th Biennial Conference, 7th (Wellington, New Zealand, 08/12/2025–09/12/2025)
- Identifiers
- 991013377251302368
- Academic Unit
- SCU College
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Conference presentation