Promoting equity in education through learning and motivation

Visiting scholar seminar

Academic motivation and opportunities are vital to shaping outcomes within and beyond education contexts: “why do some students continue to persist, while others do not?” Research that focuses on students’ personal and contextual factors is needed to broaden and increase student participation, especially for historically minoritised and understudied students in STEM. In this talk, Visiting Researcher Dr Hye Min Lee (pictured) will outline three ideas that are used to promote education equity through learning and motivation. These are:

• socialisers have the potential to improve learning and motivation
• new research methods are needed to understand student learning and motivation
• learning and motivation is a complex, integrated system within the environment.

Dr Lee will illustrate these ideas with one project that focuses on leveraging YouTube as a platform for easily accessible role models students who are studying engineering at  community colleges. She will also discuss another project that integrates digital trace data, surveys, interviews, and institutional data to dynamically understand how students in an introductory computer science course draw on their motivational resources and regulate their learning.

Hye Rin Lee (pictured) is a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Delaware. Her research adopts a critical developmental and learning analytics perspective to explore academic motivation and how it affects historically minoritised and understudied students’ learning outcomes. In particular, she investigates ways to use novel methodology techniques to address the pressing needs in the field of understanding motivation in situ; aid educators, researchers and policymakers in understanding the educational processes and outcomes when students face difficulties and challenges in school; and translate education and psychology research into interventions to help students. Dr Lee’s excellence in research and teaching has been recognised nationally in the US. She received her PhD in Education from the University of California, Irvine.

RSVP: Email HelenWatt by COB 28 March 2023.