Practice Category: Self-Efficacy
Feeling self-efficacy – which involves having confidence in and estimation of one’s abilities – is important for persistence and success in academic fields. Research indicates that students from different groups can have different levels of self-efficacy when it comes to their abilities, and that the experience of identity threat can contribute to low-levels of self-efficacy among students. In this section you will find practice recommendations that can help bolster students’ self-efficacy.
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Supporting Financially Stressed Students
Recommendations for practices that can help support financially stressed students' learning, sense that they belong in college, and belief in their ability to succeed.
Practice Categories: Belonging Identity Safety Self-Efficacy Trust and Fairness
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Supporting Self-Efficacy by Integrating Self-Relevance and a Sense of Purpose into Your Course
Approaches to help students see their coursework as relevant to their own experiences and their future goals.
Practice Categories: Belonging Identity Safety Self-Efficacy Social Connectedness
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Creating An Attuned Assessment Wrapper
Resources for bookending (or “wrapping”) key assessments with practices that help students prepare for, and debrief their performance in a way that emphasizes potential for growth, connects to resources, and does not inspire identity threat.
Practice Categories: Growth Mindset Culture Self-Efficacy Social Connectedness Trust and Fairness
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Encouraging Connections in the Classroom
Approaches for encouraging connections between students and the instructional team, and among students.
Practice Categories: Belonging Identity Safety Self-Efficacy Social Connectedness
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Creating a Belonging Story
Guidance on developing and adapting a brief exercise to help students understand that belonging concerns in college are normal, and not a signal that they do not belong or cannot succeed.
Practice Categories: Growth Mindset Culture Belonging Self-Efficacy Social Connectedness
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Establishing Expectations: A Growth Mindset Approach
Approaches for communicating about academic standards and course expectations in a way that promotes student engagement, learning, and academic success; most effective when implemented during the first week of classes; revisit principles throughout the term.
Practice Categories: Growth Mindset Culture Self-Efficacy Trust and Fairness
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Creating a Wise Feedback Framing Statement
Guidance on delivering critical feedback in a way that engenders trust, increases academic engagement, and helps close academic outcome gaps; most effective when implemented on all significant assignments or assessments.
Practice Categories: Growth Mindset Culture Identity Safety Self-Efficacy Social Connectedness Trust and Fairness
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Graduate Teaching Assistant Resource: Encouraging Connections in the Classroom
Suggestions for GTAs to facilitate students’ connections with the instructional team, and how to help students connect with each other in ways that support academic engagement and success.
Practice Categories: Belonging Identity Safety Self-Efficacy Social Connectedness
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Graduate Teaching Assistant Resource: Wise Feedback Framing Statement
Guidance on how to use Wise Feedback to deliver critical comments on exams or assignments, in a way that develops students’ trust in their instructors.
Practice Categories: Growth Mindset Culture Identity Safety Self-Efficacy Social Connectedness Trust and Fairness
