They Really DO Want to Learn Demystifying Student Motivation and Engagement

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They Really DO Want to Learn!  Demystifying
Student Motivation and Engagement

• Martin Springborg
• Center for Teaching Learning
• Office of the Chancellor

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Related buzz words around student motivation
and engagement

• Retention
• Persistence
• Program/initiative key words and phrases
• Jump Start or Quick Start
• Others?

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Agenda

• Whats happening on YOUR campus?
• IPESL projects http//ipesl.project.mnscu.edu
  
• CFAE projects http//awardsforexcellence.project.m
  nscu.edu
• Conversations
• Five statements about student motivation
• Improvement of student learning
• Resources

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Aspects of the teaching situation that enhance
students' self-motivation

• Frequent, early, positive feedback that supports
  students' beliefs that they can do well.
• Opportunities for success through tasks that are
  neither too easy nor too difficult.
• Personal meaning and value in the material.
• Atmosphere that is open and positive.
• Feeling that they are valued members of a
  learning community.
• From Davis, Barbara Gross. (1993). Tools for
  Teaching. San Francisco Jossey-Bass.

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Whats happening at North Hennepin?

• IPESL project
• Building Effective Transitions for New College
  Students
• CFAE projects
• Student Research in Marine Geology
• Promoting Student Success in Under-Prepared
  Students in the Chemistry Laboratory

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Whats happening at North Hennepin?

• MORE CFAE projects
• Promoting Program Success for Multicultural
  Nursing Students, Brenda Becker
• Introduction to College Life (First-Year
  Experience Learning Community), Gayle Jentz and
  Thomas Staael
• Clearing the Path to Success, Gerry Huerth
• Other campuses or institutions?

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Conversations

• Five statements related to student motivation

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True or False?First-year students bring a
strong desire to complete their education.
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True or False?Students enjoy reading.
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True or False?Students at two-year institutions
expect to work at a job more than 20 hours per
week.
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True or False?Most first-year students do not
welcome assistance in areas of exam preparation,
career guidance and math tutoring.
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Student motivation and persistence are the
responsibility of ______.

• the student
• guidance counselors
• the faculty
• administration
• all of the above

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Surveys of Student Engagement

• Community College Survey of Student Engagement
  (CCSSE)
• www.ccsse.org
• National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE)
• www.iusb.edu/iusboir/NSSE.shtml

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Surveys of Student Engagement

• CCSSE Benchmarks of Effective Educational
  Practice
• Active and Collaborative Learning
• Student Effort
• Student-Faculty Interaction
• Academic Challenge

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Surveys of Student Engagement

• NSSE
• Students who interacted more frequently with
  faculty report that they gain more from their
  first year of college.

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Improvement of Student Learning

• Create student-centered teaching and learning
  environments
• Orientation
• Academic Advising
• Residence Life
• Mentoring
• Tutoring
• First-Year Seminars
• Learning Communities
• Student Activities
• Others?

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Improvement of Student Learning

• Make it relevant to their lives
• Get them actively engaged with the content
• Foster good formal AND informal relationships

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Student Motivation Resources

• Noel-Levitz National Freshman Attitudes Report
• https//www.noellevitz.com/freshman
• Student Motivation series on STARLINK
• Contact Zala Fashant at MnSCU CTL
  zala.fashant_at_so.mnscu.edu
• Realizing Student Potential/ITeach
• http//www.ctl.mnscu.edu/facdev/user_event-list.ph
  p?eventtypeconferenceeid661
• CTL ITeach Center
• Are You a Reflective Practitioner?
  http//ctlreflective.project.mnscu.edu

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Martin SpringborgMinnesota State Colleges and
Universities Center for Teaching and
Learningmartin.springborg_at_so.mnscu.edu