A Synapse Lab seminar with Andrew J. Martin, Professor of Educational Psychology, School of Education, UNSW Australia
We have the pleasure of inviting all interested to our Synapse Lab seminar on Monday June 16th at 10:45 to 11:45 in room 276/277 in Elise Ottesen-Jensens Hus.
Title: Growth Approaches to Students’ Academic Development: Findings from a Program of Educational Psychology Research
Abstract:
“Success” is a zero-sum game in too many schools and classrooms: for some students to succeed, others must be denied a sense of success. Under a growth framework, however, all students have access to a sense of achievement and efficacy. Although they may not outperform peers in relativistic terms, they can outperform their own previous efforts and achievement. In so doing, they demonstrate commendable educational progress, irrespective of how they perform against others. This presentation explores various academic growth approaches to learning and instruction and their role in students’ academic achievement and engagement. Recent promising research is presented that finds growth approaches associated with improved academic outcomes at student- and classroom-levels, including for at-risk students. Also presented are various growth strategies that educators are successfully implementing to optimise students’ academic potential.
Bio
Andrew Martin, PhD, is Scientia Professor and Professor of Educational Psychology in the School of Education at the University of New South Wales, Australia. He is also Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Education at the University of Oxford, Fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA), and Fellow of the American Psychological Association (APA). Andrew is recognized for his research on student motivation, engagement, learning, and achievement. He has a Google h-index > 100 and in latest Stanford/Elsevier rankings of Scopus-based citations (Ioannidis, 2024), Andrew listed in the Top 25 of the world’s 95,000+ authors indexed in Education. He also listed Top 5 in the latest 5-Yearly International Rankings of the Most Published Educational Psychologists (Fong et al., 2022). He is Consulting Editor for Psychological Review, Journal of Educational Psychology, and Educational Psychology, and serves on numerous international Editorial Boards.