Hattie- What motivates people most to learn???

(http://www.teacherstoolbox.co.uk/downloads/managers/GeoffonHattie.doc)

• Feedback Hattie has made clear that ‘feedback’ includes telling students what they have done well (positive reinforcement), and what they need to do to improve(corrective work, targets etc), but it also includes clarifying goals. This means that giving students assessment criteria for example would be included in ‘feedback’.



• As well as feedback on the task Hattie believes that students can get feedback on the processes they have used to complete the task, and on their ability to self-regulate their own learning. All these have the capacity to increase achievement. Feedback on the ‘self’ such as ‘well done you are good at this’ is not helplful. The feedback must be informative rather than evaluative.
  



• Students prior cognitive ability: This is IQ and similar measures
  



• Instructional quality: This is the students view of the teaching quality, the research was done mainly in HE institutions and colleges.
  



• Instructional quantity: How many hours the student is taught for.
  
  



• Direct instruction: Active learning in class, students work is marked in class and they may do corrective work. There are reviews after one hour, five hours, and 20 hours study. See the separate handout.
  
  



• Acceleration I think this is very bright students being put forward a year in schools
  
  



• Home factors Issues such as social class, help with home work, extent to which the learners education is thought important; etc
  
  



• Remediation/feedback Diagnosing what students find difficult, and getting students to fix it.
  
  



• Students disposition to learn student motivation
  
  



• Class environment the classroom needs to be a positive environment, where the student does not feel threatened
  
  



• Challenge of Goals students being given challenging but at least partially achievable goals
  
  
  



• Peer tutoring students teaching each other, peer-explaining, peer-checking, peer-assessing etc
  
  



• Mastery learning A system of tests and retests of easy material with a high pass mark, if a students does not pass they must do extra work and then take a retest on the material they were weak at. See Teaching Today by Geoffrey Petty.
  
  



• Teacher in-service education Staff development and staff training sessions You may be on one now!
  
  



• Parent involvement



• Homework
  
  



• Questioning Students being questioned. The most effective questions are high order ‘why’ ‘how’ and ‘which is best’ questions that really make students think. They need to be given time to think too, and can do better if they work in pairs than work alone.

Hattie believed the most important thing is AFFIRMATION!!!