Term

Fall 2017

Capstone

Capstone Project

Degree Name

MALED

Facilitator(s)

Laura Haldin

Content Expert

Rebacca Keller

Abstract

The question addressed in this project was, what are effective strategies to enhance motivation and engagement of secondary struggling readers to grow reading achievement? Research was done on current reading instruction trends for secondary students and on the principles of motivation and engagement for students and people in general. The findings suggest that teaching struggling readers about cognitive strategies is more important than specific reading strategies. An e-learning curriculum project was created based on fixed and growth mindsets with the goal being for learners to discover his or her current mindset, to learn to recognize the difference between the two mindsets, and to assess the learner’s knowledge upon completion. This project is a shareable web link.

Project Type

Website creation

Keywords

At-risk Students, Literacy, Motivation, Reading, e-learning

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text

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DigitalCommons@Hamline

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application/pdf

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School of Education Student Capstone Theses and Dissertations

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