Thursday, April 6, 2:00-3:00 p.m.319 Gannett Center
Thursday, April 6, 2:00-3:00 p.m.
319 Gannett Center
How do academic advisors effectively motivate students to take advantage of student success offices and academic planning tools? In Nudging Students to Success: The Integration of Academic Advising and Motivational Psychology, presenters from past highly-rated NACADA conferences come together to address this question, of which academic advisors across the globe are all too familiar. Despite the fact that most higher education institutions now offer a wealth of student success resources, survey data suggests that these offices are under-utilized by students.Presenters will discuss the micro and macro factors that contribute to this issue, and will argue that academic advisors play an essential role in the solution. Utilizing techniques found in Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein’s "Nudge: Improving Decisions about Health, Wealth, and Happiness," advisors are able to nudge students into making good decisions by altering predictable behavior through incentives such as intentional acts of persuasion and guidance to produce outcomes while maintaining a student’s agency.
Read more on nudges here.
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