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Record W4416915738 · doi:10.20935/mhealthwellb8021

The Archway program: a qualitative exploration of a support program for first-year University students during COVID-19

2025· article· en· W4416915738 on OpenAlexaff
Fiona Teague, Catharine Munn, Sujane Kandasamy, Loa Gordon, James Gillett, Denver M. Y. Brown, Ming Wai Kwan

Bibliographic record

VenueAcademia Mental Health and Well-Being · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicHigher Education Practises and Engagement
Canadian institutionsMcMaster UniversityUniversity of CalgaryBrock University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsThematic analysisNonprobability samplingMentorshipQualitative researchProgram evaluationSemi-structured interviewQualitative analysis

Abstract

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Objective: The purpose of this investigation was to understand the student-perspective impact of an institutional program to support first-year university students during COVID-19. Interviews were conducted with 37 university students nearing the completion of their first year of studies. Methods: Purposive sampling was conducted to interview students with varying degrees of engagement with the Archway program. Thematic analysis was conducted to better understand how Archway specifically supported students during the pandemic and to determine how the program could be improved and adapted to other contexts and schools. Results: Overall, four overarching themes were developed, revolving around the first-year experience, the mentorship program, community events, and barriers students experienced to participation. Conclusions: Implications for these findings may help to better understand first-year student experiences of virtual support mechanisms, which could help to inform strategic initiatives and programming among post-secondary institutions.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Qualitative · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.574
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0030.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.060
GPT teacher head0.478
Teacher spread0.419 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designQualitative
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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