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1 May 2018
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Student Goal Setting: An Evidence-Based Practice

The act of goal setting is a desired competency area for students associated with the “learning-to-learn” skills students need to engage in deeper learning. The act of goal setting, therefore, is a practice that educators can use to help fuel students’ learning-to-learn skills, such as a sense of agency, intrinsic motivation, and capacity to manage their own learning. As an educational practice, teachers interested in promoting learning-to-learn skills ask students to engage in goal setting within group advisories, during one-to-one advising sessions, and as an integral component of the students’ personalized learning plans.

This resource was developed to support initiatives in Minnesota and Wisconsin related to personalized and deeper learning, including the use of student academic and career plans. It includes a brief summary of the research, highlights promising goal-setting practices, and provides the results of a research evidence review that indicates that there is promising (Tier III) evidence for the practice of student goal setting.

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Spotlight on Deeper Learning

What do today’s students really need to learn in order to succeed, not only in the classroom but also later on in college, careers, and as engaged citizens? What role can deeper learning—“a set of competencies students must master in order to develop a keen understanding of academic content and apply their knowledge to problems in the classroom and on the job”—play?
Topic: 
Education, Social and Emotional Learning

Further Reading

  • Student Advising: An Evidence-Based Practice
  • Webinar Series: Evidence-Based Practices Under ESSA
  • The Shape of Deeper Learning: Strategies, Structures, and Cultures in Deeper Learning Network High Schools
  • High School Students Receiving Instruction Focused on “Deeper Learning” Do Better in Math and English and Have Higher Graduation Rates than Their Peers
  • Study of Deeper Learning: Opportunities and Outcomes
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Kristina Zeiser

Kristina Zeiser

Senior Researcher

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Midwest Comprehensive Center (MWCC)

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