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• The BeWell Mentor Wellness Tracking System?
• An Integrated Tracking and Development Solution for Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票
• i-FlourishWell4Life: A Positive Education Initiative to Enhance Academic Success and Flourishing

Surveys and Questionnaires

• SUBSIFY: Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 Baseline Survey for Incoming First Years?
  
• Newcomer Welcoming Questionnaire
• The PSO Satisfaction Survey
• The Graduate Destination Survey
• The SU Well-being, Culture and Climate at Work Survey
• ?Surveys on Request as a Service

   The BeWell Mentor Wellness Tracking System?

Each year approximately 600 trained mentors guide between 4000 and 5000 first-year students during their first 6 to 9 months at the 中国体育彩票. The mentors are senior students who undergo intensive training over a couple of days.  The team of mentors and head mentors are supported by university staff members, including residence heads, cluster coordinators and staff members from Student Affairs.  Since its inception in 2013 more than 2700 mentors and head mentors have assisted more than 19 000 first-year students in the programme.

Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 has a long history of mentoring, dating back more than forty years. Before 2013 the objectives were, broadly, to help first-year students to adjust to university life, to overcome personal barriers and to provide general psycho-social support – mainly a deficit or problem-focused approach that assisted those in need but did not have real meaning to those who did not fall into that category. In 2013 the U?niversity switched to a developmental approach that still catered for adjustment and problem-solving, but also focused on the optimisation of the potential of all students in the system, including both the mentees and mentors – a more holistic and systemic approach that concentrates on developing the whole person instead of only addressing problem areas. The wellness model of Hettler was chosen as the vehicle to accomplish this, and the project is known as BeWell.

All the wellness enhancing activities within the BeWell system are tracked. The logging of sessions by mentors and mentees allows the university to:

• Scientifically manage the programme
  
• Measure the impact on academic performance
• Measure the experience of both mentors and mentees
• Measure the impact on the development of mentors, including graduate attributes
• Provide individualised progress reports to mentors and managers within the system
• Monitor activity levels within the system
• Do research to continuously improve the system

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?BeWell is run by the Centre for Student Communities within the Division of Student Affairs.  The Centre for Business Intelligence provides the online tracking component and also conducts research on the impact of the system.  The public website of the system can be accessed here.

An Integrated Tracking and Development Solution for Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票

Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 received a grant from the Department of Higher Education and Training’s 中国体育彩票 Capacity Development Grant to develop a proof of concept of an integrated tracking and development system that was proposed in the second half of 2017. The objective of this project is “to develop an online, structured, integrated and intelligent tracking, monitoring and development solution that will improve student success.” The system should, when fully implemented, make a positive contribution to student success.   The project was proposed by the Centre for Business Intelligence and is planned for the three year period 2018-2020.

i-FlourishWell4Life: A Positive Education Initiative to Enhance Academic Success and Flourishing

A key function of the Centre for Business Intelligence is to identify, enhance and track a critical set of positive psychological factors that influence academic performance at university level.  Research findings and case studies from around the world and from a wide spectrum of fields were considered in setting up this initiative.

Researchers have identified a range of psychological factors that influence academic achievement. These factors include grit, a growth mindset, self-efficacy, a sense of belonging, wellness, well-being, resilience and emotional intelligence.  Most of these are malleable factors and evidence-based interventions exist to pro-actively develop them.

An intervention- and evidence based “curriculum,” called “i-FlourishWell4Life,” which implements this new initiative, was consequently developed.  It aims to simultaneously advance success, wellness, well-being and character.  Tracking data and analytics are automatically integrated within the blended delivery of this curriculum – both are important components to eventually measure the impact of the curriculum and to confirm the predictive values of the above-mentioned malleable factors. 

The i-FlourishWell4Life curriculum is delivered via a series of lectures and workshops.  All participating students have their own personalised website with learning material, self-assessments, exercises, profiles and journals; this is also where the tracking takes place.  A huge amount of both qualitative and quantitative data have already been collected since 2018 and a number of research projects have been launched.  The tracking data will also be used in the long term to measure the impact on retention and throughput rates, as well as on closing the academic achievement gap between different groups of students.

The design and implementation of i-FLourishWell4Life builds on successful implementations of forerunners of the framework.  i-FlourishWell4Life is currently being tested and fine-tuned by offering it as part of the formal curriculum of three first-year modules to students from five different faculties (Science, Engineering, AgriSciences, Arts and Social Sciences, and Economic and Management Sciences).  It is hoped that the initiative can be expanded in the future.

Surveys and Questionnaires

SUBSIFY: Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 Baseline Survey for Incoming First Years????