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Fostering Success through Engagement, Efficacy, and Empowerment

Fostering Success through Engagement, Efficacy, and Empowerment. Maricopa Student Success Conference October 29, 2010. Lynn Mizzi Brysacz Margaret Corrigan. What is Success?. Objectively or Subjectively measurable? Narrowly or Broadly defined? Individually or Institutionally designed?

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Fostering Success through Engagement, Efficacy, and Empowerment

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  1. Fostering Success throughEngagement, Efficacy, and Empowerment Maricopa Student Success Conference October 29, 2010 Lynn Mizzi Brysacz Margaret Corrigan

  2. What is Success? • Objectively or Subjectively measurable? • Narrowly or Broadly defined? • Individually or Institutionally designed? • Static or Dynamic? Not Success!

  3. What is Success? • One can make an argument for each case • For our purposes, • Objectively measured, narrowly and institutionally defined, both static and dynamic Success is having students complete their educational goal • certificate completion • degree • university transfer

  4. Student Success can be Fostered • By administrative personnel • By campus student services staff • By faculty • By peer students • By the overall campus environment • Factors Beyond College Control: • family environment • personal support systems • work environment

  5. Student Success can be Fostered The big EEEasy! • Through Engagement • Through Empowerment • Through Efficacy

  6. Engagement, Empowerment, Efficacy • Engagement = Inter-relational (interactive) • “Yes, we are!” • Empowerment= Inter-personal (passed on to other) • “Yes, you can!” • Efficacy = Intra-personal (within self—perceived) • “Yes, I can!”

  7. National Survey of Student Engagement The survey captures how students use their time for various types of academic and non-academic activities. The research shows that students who spend more time on educationally-beneficial activities are more likely to learn effectively. http://nsse.iub.edu/html/about.cfm

  8. Two aspects of Engagement: • “the amount of time and effort students put into their studies and other educationally purposeful activities” • 2. “how the institution deploys its resources and organizes the curriculum and other learning opportunities to get students to participate in activities” Not Engagement!

  9. Empowerment Defined: The process of supporting another person or persons to discover and claim personal power. Empowerment suggests enabling of students through participation with others to achieve goals • Wiktionary (2010); Perkins & Zimmerman, 1995 • often used as a buzzword for empty hype, rhetoric, and lack of focus • Collective decision-making • Participation in organizations or leadership • Could be situation-specific perceived control (dealing with a crisis situation or unstable person)

  10. Empowerment • Focuses on strengths rather than weaknesses, capabilities rather than risk factors; collaboration rather than expert and subordinate roles • Provides opportunities for students to develop knowledge & skills

  11. Defined: People's beliefs about their capabilities to produce effects (outcome expectations). Perceived self-efficacy along with personal attributes such as gender & ethnicity predict interests, decisions and choice “I wish I could major in pre-med, but I don’t think I can” “I want to be able to write a 5-page report, but why bother?” “I would go into engineering, but who would hire me anyway?”

  12. Efficacy (How) • How do people become self-efficacious? And, • How can WE (administrators, advisors, and instructors) create and strengthen self-beliefs of efficacy? Four sources: • Mastery experiences (build on a succession of success experiences) • Vicarious Experiences—learning from others (by social models) • Persuasion ( easier to persuade against than for) • Emotional Arousal (reduce people's stress reactions ) http://www.des.emory.edu/mfp/BanEncy.html

  13. …Now what? • Data Dump (Active Recall) • BINGO • The Jigsaw

  14. Activity • Please gather into groups of three • Within groups, determine who will be your expert in • Engagement • Empowerment • Efficacy • Gather with your cohort experts • Within your expert groups, share any strategies or techniques you have used to foster success through your E • What else might you or your institution do?

  15. Engagement, Empowerment, Efficacy • Engagement = Inter-relational (interactive) • “Yes, we are!” • Empowerment= Inter-personal (passed on to other) • “Yes, you can!” • Efficacy = Intra-personal (within self—perceived) • “Yes, I can!”

  16. Wrap-Up • Return to original groups of 3 • Each expert summarize your findings • Reflect on how to make this practical in your role with students

  17. Thank you! Lynn Mizzi Brysacz Margaret Corrigan

  18. What is success?

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