Using path models to explore social identity and belonging in widening participat












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            * Using path models to explore social identity and belonging in widening participation; an
            attainment gap
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            Cooperatio – Psychological Sciences
            Dr. Kenneth Mavor
            (Senior lecturer, School of Psychology and Neuroscience, University of St Andrews)


            Recent papers bring together work on social identity, belonging and learning in a widening
            context in higher education. These papers make use of path models to explore the complex r

            between these concepts, and therefore interpreting path models is useful research skill. T
            explore both the key methodological issues in interpreting path models and introduce a num

            constructs used to explore widening participation and the attainment gap in higher educati
            identity perspective.


            Dr. Ken Mavor has been publishing in the social identity tradition for 20 years and partic
            social identity and learning processes in higher education for over 10 years. Of his 50+ p
            are education related, including an edited book on social identity in educational contexts

            Ken has taught research methods and statistics in Psychology for over 30 years, and he has
            passion for factor analysis and path models. His research profile [ URL "http://www.st-and
            psychology-neuroscience/people/km221/"] .