Faculty Focus

JUNE 30, 2024

Recently I had reason to revisit Paul Pintrich’s meta-analysis on motivating students. It’s still the piece I most often see referenced when it comes to what’s known about student motivation. Adaptive self-efficacy and competence perceptions motivate students. Adaptive attributions and control beliefs motivate students.

Motivation 108

Motivation Beliefs Exams Students 108

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2025

When students fail to see the connection between what theyre learning and the real world, they lose motivation to engage meaningfully with the content. Additionally, teachers can integrate discussions on the value of learning and integrity into the curriculum, using tools like student reflections and peer feedback to reinforce these values.

Academic Integrity 205

Academic Integrity Failure Students Culture 205

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

Motivation 116

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 116

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 19, 2023

Every teacher knows it’s essential, and every teacher tries to motivate students. But it’s just as true that all teachers have experienced those days when they don’t feel particularly motivated, when the content seems old and tired, and when students (sometimes the whole class) are clearly anything but motivated by what’s happening in class.

Motivation 98

Motivation Beliefs Students Assignments 98

eSchool News

OCTOBER 25, 2024

My motivation was simple: I wanted to help the class build confidence in teaching STEAM concepts. We would conclude each class with an observation/ feedback session, allowing the pre-service teachers to share their experiences and learn from each other.

Teaching 276

Teaching Teachers STEM Syllabus 276

Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2018

Every time I hear this, I am faced with the gut-wrenching realization that the student has internalized failure by age eleven. This raises two questions for me: How can we turn eleven-year-olds who have internalized failure into students like Abby who retain information for years? We’d discuss and students would get immediate feedback.

Teaching 168

Teaching Failure Quizzes Learning 168

eSchool News

JANUARY 28, 2016

These failures discouraged him, so he stopped trying completely—which caused his already low skill set to deteriorate even further. However, John was especially motivated to graduate so that he could get a well-paying job and be able to live on his own. To fix this problem, I used the “sandwich approach” in the feedback I gave him.

Teaching 189

Teaching Writing Reading Feedback 189

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

GradeCraft is an award-winning, game-oriented LMS designed to boost student engagement and motivation. Gameful learning has a strong focus on students’ self-motivation. They can actually learn from failure, so there is really no cost to fail. We don’t want you to be a failure. Gameful Design. That is a key part of this.”

Failure 167

Failure Assignments Quizzes Motivation 167

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Basically they argue that students should be challenged with a problem even if they can’t properly solve it because they haven’t learned the material yet, and then the failure to solve it will motivate them to watch the lecture looking for the necessary information. Finally, instructors assess the student work and give feedback. “I

Lecturing 213

Lecturing Learning Instructors Failure 213

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? Feedback that praised inherent ability, for example, “Good work!

Teaching 116

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 116

Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

This focus on individual students requires a high level of student autonomy and intrinsic motivation—which makes growth mindset a natural complement to personalized learning. It’s about trying different strategies, seeking out and making use of feedback, asking for help, and analyzing the reasons behind successes and failures.

Failure 141

Failure Learning Achievement Essay 141

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

An Education Week survey found that the vast majority of educators believe that a growth-oriented mindset can help improve students’ motivation, commitment and engagement in learning. They learned about neuroscience, shared personal examples and watched videos of famous failures. At my last school in San Jose, Calif., Gupta, I get it.

Beliefs 161

Beliefs Failure Feedback Math 161

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2017

While that may be heresy, I believe education is a fundamentally human endeavor that involves motivating and inspiring students to develop a passion for learning. Pointing to disorder in managerial-administrative tasks and teacher feedback loops, she encouraged edtech leaders to innovate in those areas. It’s a false dichotomy.

Educational Technologies 122

Educational Technologies Technology Failure Education 122

Edsurge

APRIL 9, 2019

We perform critiques of each others’ work, learning how to offer and accept feedback from our classmates and from professional architects, and how we can iterate our designs based on that feedback. Other times, they idle with confusion or waning motivation. Sometimes, the students succeed.

Feedback 167

Feedback Students Failure Assignments 167

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

This does not necessarily make MOOCs a failure. In Acumen’s programs, we facilitate weekly “Learning Labs” hosted on Zoom, a video conference platform, where students show up for two hours to discuss case studies and receive feedback from peers. Online courses generally require a great deal of intrinsic motivation to complete.

Assignments 167

Assignments Teaching Assistants Motivation Failure 167

Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

Even when it happens individually, having a supporting community can provide learners with the motivation and opportunities for applying and connecting knowledge. Take notes and tie feedback into their personal goals or hobbies.” But faculty can provide opportunities for students to find common ground with one another—and instructors.

Failure 136

Failure Instructors Discussions Culture 136

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

minimizing failure and providing immediate feedback for students. Well-designed games feature certain design elements that motivate us to either try harder or try a different approach. They make us want to discover new things, they provide immediate feedback and they spell out goals in a clear way.

Skills 168

Skills Critical Thinking Game-Based Learning Failure 168

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2018

Good video games are incredibly effective at capturing our attention, converting extrinsic rewards into intrinsic motivation, and creating meaningful experiences. They play for a sense of challenge (competency), social interaction, consistent feedback and more. Games Make It OK to Fail Failure is a normal part of learning.

Gamification 152

Gamification Learning Culture Students 152

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Arcadia took care not only to define values— collaboration, critical thinking, creativity, empathy and learning from failure—that would cut across those historical restraints, but also to implement new processes that would signal to its people that it was serious about those values.

Failure 151

Failure Blended Learning Critical Thinking Middle School 151

Faculty Focus

APRIL 25, 2023

As educators in the field of higher education today, we are led towards several questions, the most important of which is: Is there a failure to understand the crucial and circular cause-effect relationship between emotions, cognition, and academic success? Feedback that praised inherent ability, for example, “Good work!

Teaching 98

Teaching Failure Instructors Motivation 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

By establishing specific academic targets, students can maintain focus and motivation in their courses and throughout their college journey. Here are some strategies to foster a growth mindset: Embrace failure as a learning opportunity: Encourage students to see failure as a steppingstone towards improvement.

Failure 98

Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 20, 2023

By establishing specific academic targets, students can maintain focus and motivation in their courses and throughout their college journey. Here are some strategies to foster a growth mindset: Embrace failure as a learning opportunity: Encourage students to see failure as a steppingstone towards improvement.

Failure 97

Failure Students Lecturing Feedback 97

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

What’s striking is that when grounded in evidence-based teaching practices, effective courses foster a greater sense of belonging, increase student confidence in their ability to graduate, and create more opportunities for feedback and encouragement (Tyton Partners, 2023). But not just any feedback. And that’s a good thing.

Course Design 128

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 128

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2018

The promise is that such small nudges can motivate recipients to get back on track and keep them from dropping out. Such research, he says, has shown the importance of sending messages when students have academic successes, not just when failure is on the horizon. But in some cases such efforts actually cause more harm than good.

Failure 143

Failure Ethics Motivation Attention 143

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2020

After receiving feedback, I decided to create a process of clear financial transparency. We all understood the consequences of failure and how each of us could contribute to our organization’s success. Having collaborators, advisors and supporters who know you deeply—and know how to motivate you—makes a huge difference.

Education 211

Education Counselling Curriculum Motivation 211

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The added benefit to this is that teachers are more likely to understand student frustrations and thus be more inclined to adjust their own grading to judge improvement rather than failure as a final endpoint. They make presentations to each other and seek feedback to improve their learning, just as they want their students to do.

eLearning 142

eLearning Failure Lecturing Instructors 142

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

They are driven, motivated and informed. For your students who don’t typically identify as “engineers”—many female and minority students as well as some boys—what motivates them to sign up for, and become invested in, an engineering class or activity? It is fun to work with these kids.

Science 111

Science STEM Failure Middle School 111

Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

Students typically receive feedback and results much later and only after they have progressed. It also de-motivates students, as many either become bored when they don’t have to work at concepts that come easily to them, or fall behind when they don’t understand a building-block concept and yet the class continues to progress.

Teaching 122

Teaching Failure Feedback Skills 122

Faculty Focus

APRIL 17, 2025

But this came with a constant fear: the fear of failure, of disappointing my parents, and of falling short of expectations. Feedback-Only: No Points I do not attach points to any assignments. Instead, I provide rich feedback. If students want to know how well they did in an assignment, they must read my feedback.

Grades 97

Grades Social Studies Learning Feedback 97

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

However, each failure is a learning experience. They even requested feedback from me and their peers, very keen to root out any grammatical errors. There’s also a clear context and great motivation for engaging in higher-level language, even with monolingual groups. They fail.and fail a great deal.

Languages 167

Languages Language Skills English 167

Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2016

In addition, learning environments have typically assumed that failure is the learner’s fault. more personalized feedback, faster markup of performance practice, media and text working together, not at cross-purposes), we can look to technology to make that activity more available, reliable, affordable, data-rich, and personalized.

Education 167

Education Learning Science Feedback 167

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

While grades provide extrinsic motivation for some students, not all students are driven by the sole purpose of getting a good grade. If you make this clear to them, you might find that they will find more value in the assignment and be less motivated to cheat with AI. This helps with executive functioning and improves motivation.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

AUGUST 3, 2023

While grades provide extrinsic motivation for some students, not all students are driven by the sole purpose of getting a good grade. If you make this clear to them, you might find that they will find more value in the assignment and be less motivated to cheat with AI. This helps with executive functioning and improves motivation.

Failure 98

Failure Academic Integrity Assignments Universal Design 98

Faculty Focus

JANUARY 9, 2024

What’s striking is that when grounded in evidence-based teaching practices, effective courses foster a greater sense of belonging, increase student confidence in their ability to graduate, and create more opportunities for feedback and encouragement (Tyton Partners, 2023). But not just any feedback. And that’s a good thing.

Course Design 111

Course Design Feedback Instructors Students 111

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Sometimes students do not even read the feedback provided on their graded work, which makes our time spent on evaluation feel like a lost opportunity. The writing assignments include invention work, draft work, and final versions, which all require feedback and evaluation. We do not use any machine grading.

Grades 115

Grades Interdisciplinary Evaluation Feedback 115

Faculty Focus

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Sometimes students do not even read the feedback provided on their graded work, which makes our time spent on evaluation feel like a lost opportunity. The writing assignments include invention work, draft work, and final versions, which all require feedback and evaluation. We do not use any machine grading.

Grades 111

Grades Interdisciplinary Evaluation Feedback 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

17, Rudolph explained the motivation behind the decision: “It’s hard to argue with personalized learning… but when everybody is sitting there saying ‘yes, this looks good,’ maybe we should ask some more critical questions.” Is mixed data enough to call a program a failure? A few days later, at a study session with parents on Jan.

Learning 148

Learning Multiple Choice Questions Math Evaluation 148