Incentivisation and its effect on engagement and student performance.

Join Amanda Shaker, Chriss Brignell, and Matthew Pugh on October 16 for a conversation about Incentivisation and its effect on engagement and student performance.

We may often wonder whether students will engage with learning activities that do not have any marks associated. “Incentivised engagement” includes providing incentives for students to engage with certain activities. While these incentives are often marks, other incentives can be provided, such as ‘badges’ in a gamification of learning context, for example. In this talk, we look at the impact of incentivised engagement in terms of both student engagement and student performance. Perusall (https://perusall.com/) is a social annotation platform designed to increase student engagement with pre-class reading. It measures student interaction with the text and annotations and calculates scores, which may or may not contribute to a subject’s assessment. In this study, Perusall was used in a second-year undergraduate Statistics for Engineering module whereby students completed…