3. What would you do with $5295.00?
► 20 credits that didn’t go towards my degree
► Week 2: Getting on Course to your
Success/Learning College Customs
Importance of Academic Advising
5. ► Assante: Relate to work world
► Buckley: Let them add their own choices
► Chang: Use service learning
► Donnelly: Focus on grades
► Egret: Focus on teamwork
► Fanning: Assign a challenge
► Gonzales: Engage students-active learning
► Harvey: Just do the best you can
6. Students’ Motivation toward
Learning
► Whatreasons do you have for completing
educational tasks?
Mastery: pursue tasks to develop and improve
your abilities (because you want to learn)
Performance-approach: pursue tasks because
you are concerned about demonstrating your
ability (because you want to show that you
know)
Performance-avoidance: pursue tasks to hide
lack of ability (because you don’t want to look
like you don’t know)
7. Which statement best describes
your approach toward learning
(prior to this semester)?
►I want to learn as much as possible in
college
► It is important to me to do better than the
other students
► I hope I don’t do badly in college
8. Which statement best describes
your approach toward learning
(prior to this semester)?
►I want to learn as much as possible in
college (Mastery-goal)
► It is important to me to do better than the
other students (Performance-approach
goals)
► I hope I don’t do badly in college
(Performance-avoidance goals)
