Web-based Story Editing Interventions to Support Students at Risk and to Address Possible Stereotype Threat

Examples of Interventions

For illustrative purposes examples of the different type of interventions are listed below. Click on the accompanying links to see exactly how each of these web-based intervention looks like. All the students in the examples listed below are English speaking students. Their stories are therefore told in English, but the stories of their role model could be in either Afrikaans or English, depending on whether Afrikaans is their home language or not. The first two examples are of struggling first-year students (underperforming in the sense that their weighted average after the first semester at university was less than 80% of what they achieved in grade 12), the next two are of a colored and a black student who might be experiencing stereotype threat, and the last two are of female students in Engineering who may also be influenced by stereotype threat. The structure of the first two interventions varies greatly from the rest - it is therefore important to study at least examples 1 and 3 to get a good idea of how the story editing interventions are constructed.
  1. An example of the intervention designed for first-year students with a semester 1 weighted average of less than 80% of their grade 12 average can be found here. This is a colored female student. 2383 of the 5172 2011 first-year students qualified for interventions like these in our 2011 simulation. These interventions can only be administered after the results of the first semester have been processed.
  2. Another example of the intervention designed for first-year students with a semester 1 weighted average of less than 80% of their grade 12 average can be found here. This is a white male student.
  3. An example of the intervention designed for colored first-year students who might be under stereotype threat can be found here. This is a colored female student. 862 2011 colored first-year students qualified for similar type of interventions in our 2011 simulation. These interventions can be administered soon after students have arrived at university and have successfull y settled down.
  4. An example of the intervention designed for black first-year students who might be under stereotype threat can be found here. This is a black male student. 424 2011 black first-year students qualified for similar type of interventions in our 2011 simulation. These interventions can be administered soon after students have arrived at university and have successfully settled dwn.
  5. An example of the intervention designed for female engineering students who might be under stereotype threat can be found here. This is a black female student. 141 2011 female engineering first-year students qualified for similar type of interventions in our 2011 simulation. These interventions can be administered soon after students have arrived at university and have successully settled down.
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  6. Another example of the intervention designed for female engineering ustudents who might be under stereotype threat can be found here. This is a white female student. Scroll down on that page to see English role models.