{"id":69937,"date":"2023-09-22T00:31:38","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T04:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/world.edu\/?p=69937"},"modified":"2023-09-22T00:31:38","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T04:31:38","slug":"lets-remember-it-once-again-how-to-motivate-our-university-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/world.edu\/lets-remember-it-once-again-how-to-motivate-our-university-students\/","title":{"rendered":"Let’s remember it once again: how to motivate our university students?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nAmong the many areas widely consolidated by psychological research is that of the science of motivation.\u00a0<\/span>Decades of research<\/span><\/a>\u00a0have laid the foundations for understanding why motivated behavior occurs and how it occurs.\u00a0Furthermore, this research has had a very applied nature since it has been contexts such as education, work, or sports, which have stimulated said research.<\/span><\/p>\n

This article, whose title paraphrases the\u00a0<\/span>work<\/span><\/a>\u00a0that the American psychologist\u00a0<\/span>Frederick Herzberg<\/span><\/a>\u00a0published more than 50 years ago, aims to provide some basic guides to understand why our students become (de)motivated in our classes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s consider the reasons<\/strong><\/h4>\n

University students are motivated when they have motives or needs that they see they can satisfy through study and the teaching activities that the professor proposes.\u00a0For a student, social relationships can be her main motivation, and sharing with other students is a source of well-being.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other students may be motivated by feeling competent and capable when carrying out a specific activity.\u00a0And a third student may need a cut-off grade to pass a subject and access other studies she is pursuing.<\/span><\/p>\n

The reasons can be, as you can see, very diverse.\u00a0And here is the second of the key learnings to retain: different students may have different reasons.\u00a0If the evaluation system that we use in our subject is unique, it will inevitably motivate some students and not so much others.\u00a0Certain evaluation menus may be proposed in which the student chooses between some available alternatives, but this is an uncommon practice in our standardized evaluations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Universal reasons<\/span><\/h4>\n

We can also consider motives that we know any student has.\u00a0There are at least\u00a0<\/span>three universal reasons: autonomy, competence and relationship<\/span><\/a>\u00a0.\u00a0Any student needs to be and feel autonomous, rather than feeling dependent.\u00a0Feeling that he has control over what he does, how he does it, or when he does it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Any student needs to feel competent, capable of doing well the different activities that are proposed to him, and that these activities are located in his zone of proximal development in such a way that they force him to give his best and learn.<\/span><\/p>\n

And any student needs to feel connected to peers.<\/span><\/p>\n

Designing training activities that promote autonomy, competence or relationships is an effective way to stimulate the motivation of our students.\u00a0That is why learning based on problem solving, or project-based learning, which is also done in cooperative study groups, are such effective techniques in stimulating and feeding these needs for autonomy, competence and relationship.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s design fair evaluation systems<\/strong><\/h4>\n

University students are motivated when they understand the evaluation system and perceive that it is fair.\u00a0Clarifying what will be evaluated and how is an inexcusable task for any teacher when starting a training activity.\u00a0You have to make sure that students understand the evaluation system.<\/span><\/p>\n

Furthermore, we must ensure that this system is perceived as fair.\u00a0As the university teaching activity is carried out before a group of students, they will inevitably be compared with each other.\u00a0And they will compare their efforts invested, their performances as well as the evaluations obtained.<\/span><\/p>\n

The evaluation system must be able to discriminate different performances, that is, students who do better receive a better evaluation.\u00a0Furthermore, the evaluation system must be perceived as fair.\u00a0For this\u00a0<\/span>perception of justice<\/span><\/a>\u00a0to exist , there must be a proportional relationship between the effort that the student invests and the evaluation that she receives (distributive justice);\u00a0an argumentation of the evaluation criteria (procedural justice), and even the participation of students in the design of said evaluation criteria (interpersonal justice).<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s provide feedback<\/strong><\/h4>\n

College students are motivated when they receive feedback on how they are working.\u00a0Formative evaluation (\u00a0<\/span>feedback<\/span><\/em>\u00a0) encourages students to know what learning results they are obtaining and what is expected of them.<\/span><\/p>\n

It is important to design learning\u00a0<\/span>goals<\/span><\/a>\u00a0throughout the entire training activity.\u00a0Guarantee that these objectives are understood by the student, are specific, and are challenging as well as achievable.\u00a0And once these learning objectives have been designed, provide\u00a0<\/span>feedback<\/span><\/em>\u00a0on the degree of achievement of said objectives.<\/span><\/p>\n

Let’s design meaningful academic tasks<\/strong><\/h4>\n

University students are motivated when they have to face academic tasks in which they find usefulness, meaning, and purpose.\u00a0This purpose can be very pragmatic and be marked by the professionalizing nature of studies in which the student learns knowledge and skills to practice as a future professional.\u00a0There may also be more ethereal purposes such as purely intellectual or epistemological ones in which the student finds meaning in what he does because he feels that he is delving into a specific field of knowledge.<\/span><\/p>\n

These four points to take into account the reasons, ensure that the evaluation is fair, provide feedback and design meaningful activities represent four guides with which we can make great progress in stimulating and maintaining the motivated behavior of our students in our classrooms. .<\/span><\/p>\n

Author Bio:<\/strong> Jose Navarro is Professor of Work and Organizational Psychology at the University of Barcelona<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Among the many areas widely consolidated by psychological research is that of the science of motivation.\u00a0Decades of research\u00a0have laid the foundations for understanding why motivated behavior occurs and how it occurs.\u00a0Furthermore, this research has had a very applied nature since it has been contexts such as education, work, or sports, which have stimulated said research. 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