Correlation between Learner Agency and Learner Profile Attributes by Atchula Subrahmanyam

What is Learner Agency?

onlineatchula — 2025-02-13 17:52:37 UTC

Learner agency is about empowering students to take ownership of their learning journey. It's the capacity of students to act purposefully, make choices, and take an active role in their education. This concept has transformed how we approach teaching.

Example: CHOICE of taking up research interest in a subject to do EE in DP

onlineatchula — 2025-02-17 05:08:44 UTC

As inquirers , DP students have greater CHOICE of choosing research interest in a subject to do EE and Research TOPIC as well. In my experience supervising a student for EE, I ………

Ownership

2025-02-24 18:56:47 UTC

Many learners find taking ownership of their learning in the DP to be scary, as up until then they have had their hands held much more. It takes courage to fully embrace the self-study requirements

2025-02-24 18:57:12 UTC

Reflection and metacognition are fundamental to own the learning.

2025-02-24 18:58:47 UTC

Students have the ability to define a mini enrichment project for themselves, they decide on a question they wish to answer and how they will do it.

Their choice is the fact that they have the chance to decide how to answer the question and their voice on the question to answer.

They have entire ownership of the project, even deciding how they want to be assessed, the goals to meet their objective and the timeline.