What is it about?
We wanted to know that the student recognition program is making an impact on the student's academic key performance indicators: Course completion rate, Satisfactory progress, and on time class performance. We collected quantifiable and qualitative data and after analyzing it, we saw that the students in the bottom quartile, the ones struggling, had the greatest level of persistence after receiving recognition versus students in the same category that did not receive recognition.
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Why is it important?
Knowing and understanding that providing student recognition positively impacts students is helpful when determining ways to increase student engagement, retention, efficacy, and persistence. If a college or university gets to the point where they notice too many students are leaving, there is not enough student engagement, or looking for ways to increase the progress of struggling students, they can see this study and get some ideas and inspiration.
Perspectives
There were some "ah-ha" moments while conducting the analysis of the quantifiable and qualitative data. Confirming findings of past researchers but in a competency-based education model was self assuring and felt great. Seeing the impact the student recognition is making on our "struggling" students made us feel great too. We also smiled knowing that the student recognition program was what helped struggling students feel more confident and competent to the point where they increased their engagement in their courses and chose not to "give up and quit" as they said they were on the verge of doing prior to receiving this recognition of the excellent work they did.
AnnaMaria Bliven
Western Governors University
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This page is a summary of: The impact of student recognition of excellence to student outcome in a competency‐based educational model, The Journal of Competency-Based Education, November 2021, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1002/cbe2.1264.
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