Are We Motivating Students with Data?

Autor/inn/en	Farrell, Caitlin C.; Marsh, Julie A.; Bertrand, Melanie
Titel	Are We Motivating Students with Data?
Quelle	In: Educational Leadership, 73 (2015) 3, S.16- (5 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0013-1784
Schlagwörter	Student Motivation; Data; Middle School Students; Middle School Teachers; Interviews; Focus Groups; Observation; Evidence Based Practice; Information Utilization; Educational Practices; Performance Based Assessment; Mastery Learning; Educational Environment; Academic Achievement + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Schulische Motivation; Daten; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Teacher; Teachers; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Beobachtung; Informationsnutzung; Bildungspraxis; Leistungsermittlung; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Schulleistung
Abstract	Educators and policymakers have expressed considerable enthusiasm for engaging students with data. In this article, the authors consider how teachers commonly examine data with their students, and how these practices are likely to affect student motivation. Combining motivation research with their own study of teachers in six middle schools that were pushing data use, they identified two general approaches to involving students in data analysis. Some teachers encouraged a performance orientation, using data to compare individual students and groups with one another in an effort to foster healthy competition; however, the research suggests that such comparisons can actually be demotivating. A better approach, say the authors, was encouraging a mastery orientation by enabling students to use data to reflect on their own strengths and weaknesses and to plan improvement. Schoolwide practices are likely to influence which of these two approaches teachers take. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01