Academic-Support Environment Impacts Learner Affect in Higher Education

Unlike university classrooms, academic support services provide students opportunities for enactive mastery of a skill with immediate feedback in low-risk learning environment. Given that this environment likely alters affective states, study tracked support-seekers’ perception (n=107) their anxiety and confidence before after repeated 1 hour development sessions (n=384). Results showed academic-support had robust, immediate, long-lasting effect on decreasing increasing confidence. Positive outcomes such as reduced increased during an session were associated performance. There was high rate participants (98%) persisting into the next year program. Together demonstrates can intervention form enhancing states situations low to potentially affect retention rates.