Choose Your Own Intervention: Using Choice to Enhance the Effectiveness of a Utility-Value Intervention

Autor/inn/en	Rosenzweig, Emily Q.; Harackiewicz, Judith M.; Priniski, Stacy J.; Hecht, Cameron A.; Canning, Elizabeth A.; Tibbetts, Yoi; Hyde, Janet S.
Titel	Choose Your Own Intervention: Using Choice to Enhance the Effectiveness of a Utility-Value Intervention
Quelle	(2018), (9 Seiten) PDF als Volltext (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Verfügbarkeit
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Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
DOI	10.1037/mot0000113
Schlagwörter	Intervention; Correlation; Student Attitudes; Decision Making; Personal Autonomy; Biology; Science Instruction; College Students; Essays; Letters (Correspondence); Comparative Analysis; Student Interests; Course Content; Writing Assignments; Self Determination; Grade Point Average + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Korrelation; Schülerverhalten; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Individuelle Autonomie; Biologie; Teaching of science; Science education; Natural sciences Lessons; Naturwissenschaftlicher Unterricht; Collegestudent; Essay; Aufsatzunterricht; Brief; Studieninteresse; Kursprogramm; Selbstbestimmung
Abstract	Utility-value interventions, in which students are asked to make connections between course material and their lives, are useful for improving students' academic outcomes in science courses. These interventions are thought to be successful in part because the intervention activities afford students autonomy while they complete them, but no research has explored directly whether interventions that include more support for autonomy are more effective. In this study, the degree of choice incorporated in a utility-value intervention was systematically varied in order to test this possibility. We assigned college biology students (n=406) to a high-choice utility-value intervention condition (choose between two formats-essay or letter- for each of 3 writing assignments), one of two low-choice intervention conditions (complete either an essay and then a letter, or vice versa, and choose a format for the third assignment), or a control condition (summarize course material 3 times). Students in the high-choice condition reported significantly higher perceived utility value and interest for biology course content compared to students in the low-choice conditions. There were also significant, but small, indirect effects of choice on students' final course grades and enrollment in the next course in the biology sequence, via perceived utility value and interest. Results suggest that social-psychological interventions which include more choices are likely to be more effective than those which include fewer choices. [This is the online version published in "Motivation Science."] (As Provided).
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01