Message from Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning
Date: 28 September 2021 (Tuesday)
Time: 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Venue: Zoom
Speaker: Dr. Mimi Bong, Korea University
Session Facilitator: Dr. Ronnel B. King, CETL, HKU
Register here: https://www2.cetl.hku.hk/cetlevents/regist/470/registEvent.php?eventId=470
Abstract
There exists a host of constructs that represent some aspects of student motivation. In this talk, I will focus on three constructs that deserve particular attention from instructors at all levels of schooling – self-efficacy, achievement goals, and task value. Self-efficacy refers to individuals’ subjective convictions that they can successfully carry out a course of actions required to attain the desired outcome. Achievement goals refer to the reasons and purposes underlying achievement-related behaviors. Task value refers to the importance, usefulness, and interest that individuals perceive in the given task. Students learn and perform best when they feel highly self-efficacious toward the academic tasks at hand, pursue the tasks primarily to learn new skills and improve their competence (as opposed to outperform others or demonstrate their ability), and believe the task is important, useful, and interesting. Empirical evidence from my research will be presented along with implications for motivating teaching.
About the Speaker
Dr. Mimi Bong is a Professor of Educational Psychology and the Director of bMRI. She received her Ph.D. in Educational Psychology and Technology from the University of Southern California and was an Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, Research, and Technology at the University of South Carolina. Her research focuses on student motivation and self-regulated learning with particular emphasis on self-efficacy beliefs and achievement goals. She was recognized as the 8th most productive educational psychologist for the period of 1997-2001 and received the ‘Richard E. Snow Award for Early Contributions in Educational Psychology’ from the American Psychological Association/Division 15. She has served or currently serves on the editorial boards of AERA Open, American Educational Research Journal, Child Development, Contemporary Educational Psychology, Educational Psychologist, Educational Psychology Review, Educational Researcher, Journal of Educational Psychology, Journal of Experimental Education, Learning and Individual Differences, and Theory Into Practice. She has also served as Associate Editor of the American Educational Research Journal’s section on Teaching, Learning, and Human Development and Editor for the Korean Journal of Educational Psychology, a flagship journal of the Korean Educational Psychology Association.
About the Motivating and Engaging our Students Series
This series, organized by the Centre for the Enhancement of Teaching and Learning (CETL), aims to offer evidence-based principles and strategies to use in motivating students to learn. During this series, we will have the chance to listen to educational experts on motivation and engagement as they share with us their research and what implications these might have for teaching and learning in higher education. We have speakers from Hong Kong, Singapore, and Korea to share with us their work and how this might be relevant for teachers at HKU.
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If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Ms. Lavina Luk at ytluk89@hku.hk
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