Tuesday, February 25, 2020 - 12:00pm
Location:
Lib 209
Facilitator: Dr. Brandilynn Villarreal, Psychology
College courses are difficult and failure or poor performance in some capacity is common, especially among freshmen, first-year transfer students, first-generation students, and/or minoritized students. These groups are especially likely to see college as a low-control environment. One of the goals of this workshop is to help students see college as a high-control environment by modeling and encouraging attributions after failure that are internal, unstable, and controllable. Students who perceive more control over their performance are likely to extend additional effort to reach their educational goals.
Audience: All Educators (faculty and staff)
By the end of this workshop you will be able to:
- Describe the motivational construct of perceived academic control.
- Recognize various attributions that students make for failure or poor performance within Attribution Theory.
- Identify ways to increase perceived academic control and change attributions among students in your classes.
- Commit to at least one strategy that works best for you.