Choose Your Own Intervention: Using Choice to Enhance the Effectiveness of a Utility-Value Intervention.

ABSTRACT: Utility-value interventions, in which students are asked to make connections between course material and their lives, are useful for improving students' academic outcomes in science courses. These interventions are thought to be successful in part because the intervention activities afford students autonomy while they complete them, but no research has explored directly whether interventions that include more support for autonomy are more effective. In this study, the degree of choice incorporated in a utility-value intervention was systematically varied in order to test this possibility. We assigned college biology students (n = 406) to a high-choice utility-value intervention condition (choose between two formats- essay or letter- for each of 3 writing assignments), one of two low

SUBMITTER: Rosenzweig EQ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7413295 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature