Resources
Burton, L. J., Chester, A., Xenos, S., & Elgar, K. (2013). Peer mentoring to develop psychological literacy in first-year and graduating students. Psychology Learning and Teaching, 12(2), 136-146. Doi. 10.2304/plat.2013.12.2.136
Burton, L. J., & McDonald, K. (2011). Introductory psychology and psychological literacy. In J. Cranney, & D. Dunn, (Eds.) Educating the psychologically literate citizen: Foundational and global perspectives (pp. 91-103). New York: Oxford University Press.
Chester, A., Burton, L. J., Xenos, S., & Elgar, K. (2013). Peer mentoring: Supporting successful transition for first year undergraduate psychology students. Australian Journal of Psychology, 65, 30-37.
Chester, A., Xenos, S., Burton, L., & Elgar, K. (2013, June). Empowering students in transition: Peer mentoring to support first year students. Full paper presented at the Enhancement and Innovation in Higher Education conference, Glasgow: UK.
Chester, A., Burton, L., Xenos, S., Elgar, K., & Denny, B. (2013). Transition in, transition out: A sustainable model to engage first year students in learning. International Journal of First Year in Higher Education, 4(2).
Chester, A., Burton, L., Xenos, S., Elgar, K., & Denny, B. (2013, July). Transition in, transition out: a sustainable model to engage first year students in learning. Paper presented at the First Year in Higher Education Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
Chester, A., Xenos, S., & Burton, L. (2012, July). Peer mentoring to increase psychological literacies for new and graduating students. Paper presented at the International Conference on Teaching Psychology, Cape Town, South Africa.
Chester, A., Xenos, S., & Burton, L. J. (2012). Peer-to-peer mentoring: An embedded model to support the transition of first year psychology students. In S. McCarthy, K. Laurie Dickson, J. Cranney, A. Trapp, & V. Karandashev (Eds.), Teaching psychology around the world (pp. 133-150). Newcastle upon Tyne, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Chester, A., Xenos, S., Burton, L., & Elgar, K. (2012, September). Transition in, transition out: embedding peer mentoring in the undergraduate program to support students. Paper presented at the Conference of the Australian Psychological Society, Perth, Australia.
Cranney, J., & Dunn, D. S. (2011). Psychological literacy and the psychologically literate citizen. New frontiers for a global discipline. In J. Cranney, & D. Dunn, (Eds.) Educating the psychologically literate citizen: Foundational and global perspectives (pp. 3-12). New York: Oxford University Press.
Entwistle, N. (2000). Approaches and study skills inventory for students (ASSIST). Retrieved from http://www.tla.ed.ac.uk/etl/questionnaires/ASSIST.pdf
Lizzio, A., & Wilson, K. (2010). Strengthening commencing students; sense of purpose: Integrating theory and practice. Retrieved from http://www.fyhe.com.au/past_papers/papers10/content/pdf/12D.pdf
McGovern et al. (2010). Undergraduate education in psychology: Blueprint for the discipline’s future.
Outhred, T., & Chester, A. (2010). The experience of class tutors in a peer tutoring programme: A novel theoretical framework. Australasian Journal of Peer Learning, 3 (1), 12-23.
Telley, A., & Chester, A. (2009). Using peer mentoring to enhance groupwork skills, academic performance and transition in a group of 1st year university engineering students. Paper presented at the 2009 Monash Transition, Retention and Progression Forum, Melbourne, Australia.
Xenos, S., Chester, A., & Burton, L. (2012, September). Life beyond third year: Using peer mentoring to assist graduating students transition out of university. Paper presented at the Conference of the Australian Psychological Society, Perth, Australia.
Xenos, S., Chester, A., & Burton, L. (2013). Transition In Transition Out (TiTo): Using peer mentoring to assist graduating students transition beyond university. Proceedings of the International Psychological Applications Conference and Trends 2013, 26-28 April, Madrid, Spain.