Learner Engagement & Motivation Flashcards

A student with high test anxiety freezes during exams despite knowing the material. Which intervention is most appropriate?

Answer: Teach relaxation and self-monitoring strategies before exams

Teaching relaxation techniques and self-monitoring helps students manage debilitating anxiety and access their actual knowledge.

Which scenario best illustrates vicarious reinforcement increasing student engagement?

Answer: A student works harder after watching a peer be praised for persistence

Vicarious reinforcement occurs when observing another person being rewarded increases the observer's motivation to perform the same behavior.

Which approach BEST prevents learned helplessness in struggling students?

Answer: Designing tasks with graduated difficulty and scaffolded support

Graduated challenge with scaffolding gives students repeated success experiences, rebuilding the belief that effort leads to positive outcomes.

According to expectancy-value theory, a student's motivation to engage in a task is primarily determined by:

Answer: The student's belief in success and the perceived importance of the task

Expectancy-value theory posits that motivation is a product of how likely the student believes they are to succeed and how much they value the task.

A middle school teacher wants to increase students' sense of relatedness. Which practice is MOST effective?

Answer: Building structured opportunities for collaborative group work

Structured collaborative activities fulfill the SDT need for relatedness by building positive peer connections within a learning context.

Mr. Chang explicitly teaches students to set short-term learning goals before each unit. This practice primarily supports motivation through:

Answer: Self-regulation and goal-setting

Short-term goal-setting activates self-regulatory processes, giving students clear targets and a sense of agency over their learning.

Which best describes 'amotivation' in Self-Determination Theory?

Answer: A complete lack of motivation, neither intrinsic nor extrinsic

Amotivation is the absence of both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, often accompanied by feelings of incompetence or lack of control.