EDPSY 014 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Learner Autonomy, Motivation, Personalization
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Chapter 11: a classroom model for promoting student motivation. Needs to indicate learning progress and accomplishing tasks, not just high grades and performing better than others: challenge: increasing perceptions of competence. Developing a sense of competence is an innate need, and seeing our competence increase is intrinsically motivating: task comprehension: increasing feelings of autonomy and value. Task comprehension learners" awareness of what they are supposed to be learning and an understanding of why the task is important and worthwhile. Includes decisions about time allocated to tasks, pace of instruction, and provisions for extra help if needed. Understand what they"re learning increases feelings of autonomy. Involvement: increasing situational interest: involvement- the extent to which people are actively participating in an activity, increases situational interest and puts students in cognitively active roles, open-ended questions- questions for which a variety of answers is acceptable. Easy to answer, activate prior knowledge, and draw students into the lesson.