ARCS confidence strategies: learning requirements, success opportunities and personal responsibility¶

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Description¶

Confidence is the third ARCS component, described as strategies "that help students develop a positive expectation for successful achievement". The digest lists three sub-components: learning requirements (inform students of performance requirements and assessment criteria), success opportunities (challenging and meaningful opportunities for successful learning), and personal responsibility (link success to personal effort and ability), each with a teacher example.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Learning requirements: inform students about learning and performance requirements and assessment criteria
• Success opportunities: provide challenging and meaningful opportunities for successful learning
• Personal responsibility: link learning success to students' personal effort and ability

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• Students in classroom instruction and users of instructional materials, as described in the digest

Target Learning Goals¶

• Developing a positive expectation for successful achievement

Affordances¶

• Arcs Model
• Arcs Strategy Subcomponent Taxonomy

Related Strategies¶

• Arcs Model
• Exemplars
• Provide Feedback
• Effort Based_Praise

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Small, Ruth V. (1997). Motivation in Instructional Design. ERIC Digest. ERIC Clearinghouse on Information and Technology. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED409895