Student Motivation

Meet the students where they are and motivate them to where they need to be.

We have all experienced the vexation of unmotivated students. What’s causing the lack of motivation? Can we do anything about it? The Student Motivation Faculty Learning Group delved into this topic and surveyed the faculty’s perceptions of this. Watch/listen to the presentation below and follow along with the slides. The resources from the Powerpoint are also listed below.

Student Motivation Resources for Faculty

Resource Listing

Miller, C. T., Drewery, M., Waliczek, T. M., Contreras, R. N., & Kubota, C. (2022). Engaging Undergraduate Students in Research. HortTechnology, 33(1). https://journals.ashs.org/horttech/view/journals/horttech/33/1/article-p1.xml
Filson, C. & Wittington, M. S. (2013). Engaging Undergraduate Students through Academic Advising. NACTA Journal, 57(4), 10-17. https://www.jstor.org/stable/nactajournal.57.4.10
Walton, E. (n.d.) 11 (more) tips to encourage unmotivated students. EF Teacher Zone. https://teacherblog.ef.com/encourage-unmotivated-students/
Wolstencroft, P. & de Main, L. (2020). ‘Why didn’t you tell me that before?’ Engaging undergraduate students in feedback and feedforward within UK higher education. Journal of Further and Higher Education, 45(3), 312-323. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0309877X.2020.1759517
Shim, K. J., Menkhoff, T., Teo, L. Y. Q., & Ong, C. S. Q. (2023). Assessing the effectiveness of a chatbot workshop as experiential teaching and learning tool to engage undergraduate students. Education and Information Technologies, 28, 16065-16088. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10639-023-11795-5
Motivating Students. (2024). LEARN Center, Univerity of Wisconsin Whitewater. https://www.uww.edu/learn/restiptool/motivating-students
Fernandez, D. P., Ryan, M. K., & Begeny, C. T. (2023). Recognizing the diversity in how students define belonging: evidence of differing conceptualizations, including as a function of students’ gender and socioeconomic background. Social Psychology of Education, 26, 673-708. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11218-023-09761-7
Grabowski, P. (n.d.). 7 Amazing Strategies to Engage College Students on Campus. Social Intents. https://www.socialintents.com/blog/engage-college-students-on-campus/

Student Motivation

Student Motivation Faculty Learning Group

Student Motivation Presentation

Student Motivation Resources for Faculty

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