1. The document discusses strategies for motivating students to succeed in their engineering studies presented by Raymond B. Landis to CECS faculty.
2. It identifies goals, commitment to goals, and changing behaviors and attitudes as key aspects of the success process.
3. Landis recommends identifying goals, strengthening commitment through clarifying rewards and developing plans, and changing counterproductive behaviors and attitudes through establishing baselines, delivering knowledge, and requiring implementation of productive behaviors.
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2. Definitions
Motivate
“to provide with a motive”
Motive
“something that causes a person to act in a
certain way”
Success
“the achievement of something desired,
planned, or attempted”
3. Vincent Tinto
(Source: Leaving College)
Intention - Absence of goals
Commitment - Unwilling to put in effort
Adjustment - Inability to adjust to social and
academic demands
Difficulty - Academic dismissal
Congruence - Mismatch with institution
Isolation - Absence of social interaction
Obligations - Friends, family, employment
Finance - Inadequate resources
4. Forums for faculty
to motivate students?
Introduction to Engineering course
Other engineering courses
Advising/mentoring
5. Success Process
1. Goal identification
2. Strengthening commitment to goal
3. Change behaviors
4. Change attitudes
6. Goal identification
Basic idea
How can you ever expect to get somewhere if
you don’t know where you want to go?
Goals give you something to measure yourself
against
Goals give your life direction
Write down your goals
7. Strengthening
commitment to goal
Understanding the benefits (rewards and
opportunities) – goal clarification
Understanding the essence
Increasing global awareness (having a
strong foundation)
Having a road map (step-by-step plan)
8. Goal Clarification - Rewards and
Opportunities of Engineering
1. Job satisfaction
2. Varied Opportunities
3. Challenging Work
4. Intellectual Development
5. Social Impact
6. Financial Security
7. Prestige
8. Professional Environment
9. Understanding How Things Work
10. Creative Thinking
10. Behaviors
for Success
Time and energy devoted to studying (“time on task”
Study from class to class rather than from test to test
Group study/collaborative learning
Making effective use of professors
Preparing for lectures
Utilizing resources (e.g., tutoring, advising, counseling,
etc)
Preparing for and taking tests
11. Pedagogy for changing
behaviors
1. Establish a baseline
2. Deliver knowledge
3. Build commitment to behavior
4. Require/assign implementation
5. Process outcomes
12. Conditions for
collaborative learning
Taking same course
Enrolled in same section
Know each other (“Name Game”)
Aware of the efficacy of collaborative learning
13. Change attitudes
Negative attitudes that inhibit success
Weak commitment to goal of graduating in engineering
Unrealistic view of what’s expected (e.g., overconfidence,
naivete)
Low self confidence
Lack of self worth (I.e., tendency to sabotage their success)
External “locus-of-control” (I.e., adoption of victim role)
Negative view toward authority figures
14. Negative attitudes that inhibit
success (continued)
Unwillingness to seek help
Resistance to change (e.g., personal growth and development)
Tendency toward procrastination (e.g., negative view toward time
management)
Avoidance of areas of weakness or perceived unpleasantness
(e.g., written communications, interpersonal interaction, chemistry)
Reluctance to work with other students (I.e., avoidance of group
study)
15. Chopra’s "Law of Karma" explains the importance of becoming "conscious,“
Most of us, as a result of conditioning, have repetitious and predictable responses to
the stimuli in our environment. Our reactions seem to be automatically triggered by
people and circumstances, and we forget that these are still choices that we are making
in every moment of our existence. We are simply making these choices unconsciously.
and how through doing so, we are able to change our choices:
If you step back for a moment and witness the choices you are making as you make
those choices, then in just this act of witnessing, you take the whole process from the
unconscious realm into the conscious realm. This procedure of conscious choice-making
is very empowering.
Deepak Chopra
Seven Spiritual Laws of Success
16. No
Yes
No
Help student become
“conscious” of a
negative attitude
Have
student answer
the question, “Is attitude
working for me?”
Yes
Attitude is (by
definition) “positive”
Try to change
the attitude
Try to eliminate
the source
Ask “Does attitude
come from a source that
can be changed?
Helping Students
Change Attitudes
17. You are what your deep, driving desire is.
As your desire is, so is your will.
As your will is, so is your deed.
As your deed is, so is your destiny.
Brihadaranyaka Upanishad IV.4.5
18. What can you do
for your students?
Implementation Exercises
1. Build community
2. Strengthen commitment
3. Change behaviors
4. Change attitudes