This fall, I got the opportunity to teach online for the first time. I had been thinking about online teaching…
Promoting persistence in STEM Learning Community: Bad teaching, weed out courses, the struggle to thrive, and what non-STEM students can teach us
This year, a group of faculty members (and one soon-to-be faculty member) from multiple departments at Vanderbilt are joining together…
Promoting persistence in STEM Learning Community: What interview data from Talking about Leaving Revisited tell us
This year, a group of faculty members (and one soon-to-be faculty member) from multiple departments at Vanderbilt are joining together…
Promoting persistence in STEM Learning Community: Understanding switching trends
This year, a group of faculty members (and one soon-to-be faculty member) from multiple departments at Vanderbilt are joining together…
Promoting persistence in STEM Learning Community: Getting started
Earlier this week, about 20 faculty members (and one soon-to-be faculty member) met to kick off a learning community focused…
Student motivation journal club: Supporting our students’ motivation in the era of COVID-19
Our student motivation journal club is ending the academic year in the age of COVID-19 and all that implies: working…
Student motivation journal club: Don’t forget about your strengths when considering ways to improve: The impact of various self-regulated learning strategies on effort intentions
By Heather Fedesco, CFT Assistant Director When we give students feedback on an assignment, we often list what they did…
Student motivation journal club: What do students say matters for their motivation?
What’s more important for supporting our students’ motivation—autonomy, a sense of relatedness, or a sense of competence? That’s the question…
Yours, mine, and ours: What effects does a shared self-transcendent purpose have in the classroom?
Why do you do the work you do? What motivates you to persist when it’s tough—when you read a review…
Grades as a necessary evil? How they affect student motivation and what we can do about it.
By Heather Fedesco, CFT Assistant Director During the December meeting of the CFT’s student motivation journal club, we tackled the perplexing…
