Motivation & Instruction: The Portal to Post- Secondary Student Success Margery B. Ginsberg, Ph.D. Raymond J. Wlodkowski, Ph.D. Adult Student Recruitment and Retention Conference University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh

Guiding Values … To avoid higher education evolving into a system that reinforces and increases social stratification and inequality, and …To become a system that enhances the education quality of learning for all students Guiding Values … To avoid higher education evolving into a system that reinforces and increases social stratification and inequality, and …To become a system that enhances the education quality of learning for all students

Why is college success important… ….beyond the increased demands of a global economy and technology?

Why is retention an enduring concern? Persistent low-completion rates (40%) Challenges facing developmental education Disproportionality of low-income, students- of-color who stop out or drop out. Policy research suggests what to do but not how to do it on the ground.

Why is instruction foundational to academic success? 90% of social or academic engagement is in the classroom or online. Abstract & extrinsically reinforced systems of education do not work for at least 1/3 rd of students. Access is inseparable from inclusion.

What is intrinsic motivation and why is it essential to post- secondary student success?

Reflect on your own experience.

The Motivational Framework for Culturally Responsive Teaching

An Example of Instruction

Transformative ways for faculty & student services professionals… ‘We learn best from our experience, but we never directly experience the consequences of many of our most important decisions’, Peter Senge (1990: 23) Shadowing, interviews and sustained faculty development focused on instruction.

Faculty need what students need Authentic community Relevant learning experiences Interesting ways to strengthen instruction Supportive & evidence- focused feedback

Where there is a will, there is a way” should be reversed and restated as “Where there is a way, there is a will.” (p. 45). Anyon, 2005

What spoke to you? What questions do you have?

Thank you!