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What Works is an ethos and approach within King’s that has contributed substantially to delivery of King’s Vision 2029, various projects within our Education Strategy 2017-2022 and is core to our Widening Participation Strategy and Access and Participation Plan. It is a team delivering a series of innovative projects that demonstrably improve the experience of students from widening participation backgrounds and the student body as a whole and was the first initiative taking the What Works approach to access and student success within a university. We incubated TASO, which takes this ethos forward into the sector.
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We are a research and evaluation team within King's. We use cutting edge data analysis and qualitative research methods to identify issues that students might be facing in accessing and succeeding at university and then trial interventions to see if they positively influence the identified issue.
Our role within King's is to support social mobility by ensuring that projects that are having a positive effect continue; with their impact measured and the evidence that they work shared and built upon. We believe in sharing what doesn’t work as well as what does work with the sector so that resources are not wasted on projects which are not having a positive effect.
What Works at King's College London - What we've found in our first two years (pdf).
In January 2018, we officially launched. Since then, we have worked to build consistent evaluation processes internally and add to the sector evidence-base of 'what works' in supporting the access, retention and success of students from underrepresented groups. Our projects are informed by cutting edge behavioural insights and data analytics, and robustly evaluated.
Our report of our findings from our first two years (pdf).
Watch the video for a summary of the report:
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If you're a student who has been contacted by What Works and you want to check that the message is genuine, please email whatworks@kcl.ac.uk.
How we contribute to King's College London
“What Works is a major institutional priority for King’s College London, as we work to transform all aspects of Education and the experience of our students in the context of our Vision 2029. ”
“What Works is contributing to the world-class status of King’s by embedding robust research and evaluation methods into student success programmes and outreach activity.”
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To find out more visit our blog, follow us on Twitter @KclWhatWorks or email us at whatworks@kcl.ac.uk.
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