Herman, G. L., & Earl, K. A., & Choi, D. S. (2015, June), Studying the Fidelity of Implementation of an Intrinsic Motivation Course Conversion  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington. 10.18260/p.24775

\bibitem{asee_peer_24775}
  Herman, G. L., \& Earl, K. A., \& Choi, D. S. (2015, June), \emph{Studying the Fidelity of Implementation of an Intrinsic Motivation Course Conversion}
  Paper presented at 2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington.
  10.18260/p.24775

Geoffrey L Herman, Katherine Anne Earl, and Dong San Choi.  "Studying the Fidelity of Implementation of an Intrinsic Motivation Course Conversion".  2015 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June.  ASEE Conferences, 2015.  https://peer.asee.org/24775 Internet.  19 Dec, 2024

\bibitem{asee_peer_24775}
  Geoffrey L Herman, Katherine Anne Earl, and Dong San Choi.
  "Studying the Fidelity of Implementation of an Intrinsic Motivation Course Conversion".
  \emph{2015 ASEE Annual Conference \& Exposition, Seattle, Washington, 2015, June}.
  ASEE Conferences, 2015.
  https://peer.asee.org/24775 Internet.  19 Dec, 2024

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AB  -           The low-cost intrinsic motivation (IM) course conversion project is an effort to improve thequality of undergraduate engineering education by creating course designs that promote students’intrinsic motivation to learn while keeping the time and financial investments for those course designslow. We paired these two design constraints as a method for addressing the common concerns aboutthe dissemination and adoption of evidence-based teaching practices. If students become intrinsically-motivated to learn, they may become change agents who demand different instruction. If coursedesigns are demonstrably adoptable and feasible, they may be more attractive to faculty to adopt.Critically, the focus on motivation rather than content or specific pedagogies can lead to better learningas students who are intrinsically motivated to learn adopt strategies for deeper learning and persistlonger in their learning when encountering difficulties.         Because of the project’s explicit goal of creating a course design method that facilitatestranslation of practices across instructors and courses, a critical test of the method is the fidelity ofimplementation and outcomes across instructors. In prior papers we have presented how the first IM-converted course promoted students’ intrinsic motivation to learn and improved their conceptualunderstanding of the course content. In this paper, we present a replication study that explores andcontrasts the implementation and outcomes of the second offering of the IM-converted course when itwas taught by different instructors. We use a mixed-methods comparative case study to describe andcontrast the two offerings of the course. Data for the case study includes course syllabi, studentinterviews, survey results, and concept inventory scores.         Both courses were constructed upon the basic foundation of Self-Determination Theory whichposits that intrinsic motivation to learn can be fostered when instructors support the three corepsychological needs of autonomy, relatedness, and competence. In both course offerings, we supportedstudents’ autonomy through self-selected design projects, students’ relatedness by making the projectsteam-based, and students’ competence by providing weekly consultation meetings with instructors inplace of grading written homework assignments. The two offerings differed in their methods forassigning students to teams, the number of projects, and the number of examinations in the course.Survey results from the Learning Climate Questionnaire revealed that students perceived excellentmotivational support from their instructors with no statistically significant differences in climate scores.Interviews, however, revealed that students’ sense of relatedness with their peers and identificationwith the learning goals of their projects differed dramatically based upon the method of teamassignment. Varying the number of projects and exams did not reveal any differences in the studentexperience across semesters.
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