Editor’s note: This blog post originally appeared on CoSN’s blog and is reposted here with permissions.
When it comes to students in the classroom, they want to feel ownership and control of their learning. According to the American Institutes for Research, encouraging student agency is beneficial because:
- students who believe their knowledge can grow over time perform better on IQ tests,
- those with a growth mindset are more likely to set academic goals focused on mastering content versus studying for a test score or course grade,
- students who set mastery-focused goals tend to process information in a deeper and more organized fashion, and
- the skills and behaviors that learner agency fosters are positively related to higher education and career outcomes.
During CoSN’s Driving K-12 Innovation 2022-23 cycle, our esteemed Advisory Board of about 100 educators and technologists agreed that learner agency is, indeed, one of the top three accelerators in education today. Download the 2023 Driving K-12 Innovation Report: Hurdles + Accelerators to learn more.…Read More