Impact

"There are three main benefits of this course for me as follows. Firstly, it helped me to integrate into an English learning environment. Secondly, I have learned useful phrases as well as tools from it. Thirdly, it has built up my self-confidence."

"I think every student in university of Leeds need to take this course."

(Anonymous student feedback, School of Performance and Cultural Industries, 2021-22)

The insessional team are currently working on a collaborative scholarship project which explores the impact of insessional EAP provision. In this short piece Bee Bond, Director of Insessional EAP, provides the context and thinking behind the development of this project.

This page provides an overview of the various investigations we are undertaking as part of this overarching scholarship project. We also aim to share some of the findings and some of the struggles involved in our attempts to demonstrate impact (including a general dislike of the ways that impact currently seems to be understood in UK universities!) 

• Geoffrey Nsanja is exploring discipline literacy from an emic perspective.
• Clark Girdlestone is quantifying impact on MSc International Business.
• Michelle Evans and Angela Hulme are evaluating the impact of embedded language and literacies provision in Education and Music
• In this first episode of the LITE Bites podcast series on Educational Gain and Student Futures, Bee Bond is joined by colleagues Caroline Campbell and Geoffrey Nsanja to explore how their pedagogical research sheds light on what students value, how they experience learning, and how we might meaningfully understand “educational gain” across different disciplines. Together, they discuss the role of inclusive formative and summative assessment, the hidden and relational dimensions of academic practice, and how these insights are shaping Bee’s work as the LITE Strategic Lead for Student Futures and Educational Gain.
• Jenna Bodin-Galvez is exploring Perspectives on the Impact of Embedded In-sessional EAP: Looking beyond Student Performance to Student Experience.

This project is very much a collaborative, iterative and shared endeavour. We hope that by sharing our progress on this site we will also open the discussions to others (and not only EAP practitioners). Please do contact us with questions and suggestions.