A teaching development project to embed student confidence along with the curriculum.

1. Dr Fabio R. Aricò
School of Economics
University of East Anglia
F.Arico@uea.ac.uk
When Student Confidence Clicks
Academic Self-Efficacy and Learning in HE
STUDENT CONFIDENCE
THE THEORY
THE TECHNOLOGY
The British HE system strives for
excellence in student support.
Re-visit and explore the concept of
Academic Self-Efficacy (ASE):
Use technology to connect with
students in large class modules.
Student support provision should
never neglect the importance of
helping students to become
confident and autonomous.
Students’ confidence in their
ability to accomplish specific
academic tasks or attain specific
academic goals (Bandura, 1997).
Employ Student Response Systems
like ‘clickers’ to engage, interact,
assess, but also use them to
increase students’ ASE.
TEACHING APPROACH
• Interactive Lectures + online Feedback Reports
 to stimulate engagement and provide guidance.
• Flipped Workshops + Formative Seminar Quizzes
 to promote self-assessment and raise ASE.
• Extra-curriculum Facebook Challenges + Presentations
 to elicit ASE through demonstration effect.
EVIDENCE-BASED VALIDATION
• Rich learning analytics + demographics
 identify correlation patterns.
• Focus groups and questionnaires
 narrative to interpret quant. analysis.
• Research into the role of clickers
 no literature on their impact on ASE.
STUDENTS AS PARTNERS
• Continuous dialogue
 identify ways to improve
learning and teaching.
• Student interns
 support the research,
offer insights and ideas,
gain employability skills.
I gratefully acknowledge support and funding from:
- UEA-HEFCE Widening Participation Teaching Fellowship
- HEA Teaching Development Grant scheme.