{"id":851,"date":"2015-08-13T22:54:48","date_gmt":"2015-08-13T22:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/?p=851"},"modified":"2015-08-13T22:54:48","modified_gmt":"2015-08-13T22:54:48","slug":"the-power-of-goal-setting-for-educational-equity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/2015\/08\/13\/the-power-of-goal-setting-for-educational-equity\/","title":{"rendered":"The Power of Goal Setting for  Educational Equity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While educational inequity is a structural issue that requires institutional and policy changes, there are micro-level interventions that can support students&#8217; success and achievement involving visioning and personal reflection.\u00a0 If you get a chance, take a look at this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.palgrave-journals.com\/articles\/palcomms201514#supplementary-information\" target=\"_blank\">2015 study by Schippers et al<\/a>. The authors argue for the significance of structured goal setting and reflective writing on student academic performance and retention. The authors note that, &#8220;overall, the results indicate that a comprehensive goal-setting intervention implemented early in students\u2019 academic careers can significantly and substantially reduce gender and ethnic minority inequalities in achievement.&#8221; While you might find the intervention in the study to be too involved, it&#8217;s worth considering how we involve students in academic goal setting and detailed planning very early on in their college experience.\u00a0 Please share your strategies!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While educational inequity is a structural issue that requires institutional and policy changes, there are micro-level interventions that can support students&#8217; success and achievement involving visioning and personal reflection.\u00a0 If you get a chance, take a look at this 2015 study by Schippers et al. The authors argue for the significance of structured goal setting &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/2015\/08\/13\/the-power-of-goal-setting-for-educational-equity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Power of Goal Setting for  Educational Equity&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":796,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/796"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=851"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":855,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/851\/revisions\/855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.hampshire.edu\/ctl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}