Demystifying Success in a Summer Bridge Program: Investigating Students' Intrinsic Motivation and Mastery Goals in the Context of a Learning Analytics Intervention

Abstract

This study investigated students' academic motivation orientations in a summer bridge program and how a learning analytics-based intervention supported the activities of the academic advisors. Students' mastery orientation decreased over the course of the term and our results showed how certain learning analytics features and use cases were associated with this change. The findings indicate that student motivations need to be carefully considered in the design of learning analytics-based interventions since the resulting tools can affect how students make sense of and engage with their courses.