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Student Goals

11/11/2014

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Difficult Goals Lead to Higher Achievement

 A simple and quick strategy that demonstrates a high effect size on student achievement is to ask students to set a challenging goal for themselves.  Consider passing out an index card to each of your students and asking them to state a difficult or challenging goal they want to reach on their final exam. Or begin next semester with goal-setting and periodically ask students to revisit their goals.

 The key words here are challenging and difficult. Asking students to set a goal to “do their best does” not show a positive effect on achievement.

 John Hattie’s analysis of multiple research studies  reveals an effect size of .56 (anything above .20 begins to show a positive effect. Anything .80 or above is extremely effective and rare).  Hattie states, “The performances of the students who have the most challenging goals are over 250% higher than the performances of the subjects with the easiest goals” (Visible Learning, p. 164).

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    Avon High School

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