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Does Explaining Study Groups as Good for You Vs. Good for Classmates Alter Student Engagement and Study Group Benefits?
Grant program: Exploring Well-being in Learning Environments: An Integrated Seminar Series and Grants Program
Grant recipient: Lara Aknin, Department of Psychology
Project team: TBD
Timeframe: September 2020 to July 2021
Funding: $4,110
Course addressed: PSYC 260 鈥� Introduction to Social Psychology
Description: For this project, I hope to help foster social connection in my classroom through the use of study groups to reduce feelings of loneliness and isolation among PSYC 260 students. I will encourage students to meet as study groups to create an informal network for discussing content, exchanging notes, and sharing experiences. I want to examine whether telling students that joining the study group stands to benefit them (vs. their groupmates) influences the degree to which students engage with their group, experience a sense of social connection from it, and improve their well-being? More broadly, I hope that this contact group provides students with a 鈥渟tudent safety net鈥� 鈥� a support system throughout the semester 鈥� to speak with regarding course content, the university experience, and life more broadly. Ideally, these relationships will grow into meaningful friendships that extend long after my course ends.
Questions addressed:
- Does study group framing impact how many times the group members meet?
- Does study group framing impact student well-being?
- Does study group framing impact students鈥� sense of social connection or friendship in the classroom?
- Does study group framing impact students鈥� feeling of belonging in the classroom?
- Does study group framing impact students鈥� feeling of loneliness in the classroom?
- Does study group framing impact students鈥� sense of intrinsic motivation for the course?
- Does student well-being predict course achievement?
Knowledge sharing: I intend to disseminate these data to my local colleagues through word of mouth, and presentation at a department seminar and/or local teaching conference. I鈥檇 also be happy to share the findings at ISTLD events or in the newsletter.