Thursday 22 April 2010

Commitment Compliance and comfort zones

This is the title of a paper in assessment in education by k, eccleston in 2007

Here’s a summary

We know what ‘learning autonomy’ is and that it’s important but its v hard to implement

Formative assessment it beneficial in vocational courses to boost learning confidence, plus others.

A topology of motivation

Yes, we have ideas of ‘intrinsic’ and ‘extrinsic’. German researchers have expanded this to include self-determination and personal agency. This links old ideas of effort, luck ability and difficulty of task to a sense of agency or locus of control.

Motivation is also affected by social environment and influences.

Amotivated learners

·         Lack direction for motivation

·         Apathetic

·         Hard to change

·         A need for external motivation to get moving again

External

·         Need rewards or reinforcements

·         Reviews of progress, deadlines

·         Should not be seen as bad, and sometimes needed to move out of low points

Introjected/internalised

·         Learner is reliant on a strong exernal, but internalised structure or process

·         Tasks are broken down into small steps with very direct learning outcomes

·         But it is not self-determining

·         Inititally empowering, Can straight jacket learning

Identified

·         Maybe seen as a burden by learner

·         But is connected by learning with moving to a desired outcome

Intrinsic

·         Enjoyment of learning

·         Sometimes it is there when teachers don’t realise

·         Learning is highly self-determined and independant of external contingencies

Interested

·         Learner assigns value and personal meaning to content or activity

·         Links with maslow’s self-actualisation’

·         ‘becoming-somebody’

Movement between states is v changeable and personal. But what can help?

·         Student autonomy

·         Support for competence

·         Social relations

·         Relevance of content

Quality of teaching and learning design

Teachers interest

Topology of autonomy – this is more difficult

·         Personal – technical – procedural – critical

How do these to systems work together?

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