Professor Mark Lorch M.Lorch@hull.ac.uk
Professor of Public Engagement and Science Communication.
ASCENTS 1-2-1
People Involved
Dr Kelly Dockerty K.Dockerty@hull.ac.uk
Senior Lecturer in Education and Registered Scientist (RSci)
Project Description
A previous RCT pilot study (Sharpe, Abrahams & Fotou, 2017) found that academically asymmetrical paired mentoring intervention (the one-to-one pairing of undergraduate STEM students with disadvantaged Year 11 students) had a statistically significant impact in raising the academic attainment of disadvantaged students in both their mock and actual GCSE examinations. The rationale for this intervention is to see if those results can be replicated on a larger scale across a number of different universities in order to benefit the targeted disadvantaged Year 11 students.
No additional new materials will be required from schools or students. The intervention will involve the one- to-one paired mentoring in which the mentor is able to help their mentee with any particular aspect of the science GCSE curriculum that the mentee felt they needed help with. Teachers of the mentees are also able to pass suggestions of work to be covered in a particular mentoring hour to the supervising school teacher who, in turn, will pass this on to the mentor at the start of the mentoring session. Mentors will pass on these suggestions to their mentee but only to work on them if the mentee wants to do so – if the mentee had other science work they preferred to work on then it was the mentee’s choice of work that was prioritised.
The total duration of the intervention is 23 weeks for one hour per week with an intensive six-hour mentoring session just prior to their GCSE examination.
| Project Acronym | 1-2-1 ASCENTS |
|---|---|
| Status | Project Live |
| Value | £75,163.00 |
| Project Dates | Jan 1, 2023 - Dec 31, 2025 |
| Partner Organisations | University of Lincoln University of Liverpool University College London Northumbria University |
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