Research, Funding, and Awards

  • Quick survey: Communication and Motivation

    If you are a university student (undergraduate or graduate), please join our survey by completing our Qualtrics questionnaire here: https://uconn.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_d3UDYqaJ6Kc3lGZ

    It will help UConn’s educational researchers investigate the relationship between university instructors’ communication and their students’ motivation, which will inform the development of new instructional strategies that will enhance university students’ learning.

    Your participation in this study will require the completion of this questionnaire that contains 33 multiple-choice questions and 7 demographic questions. This process should take approximately 5-10 minutes. You can complete it in any place you feel comfortable with, as long as there is access to the internet. You will not be paid for being in this study, and your participation will be anonymous. There is no IP-tracking or audio-/video-taping involved. Participants will not be named or identified in any efforts for the publication of the findings.

    If you have any questions about your rights as a research participant, you may contact the University of Connecticut Institutional Review Board (IRB) at 860-486-8802.  The IRB is a group of people who review research studies to protect the rights and welfare of research participants. This study was approved by the UConn IRB, Protocol #H16-014.

    For more information, contact: Dandan Chen at dandan.chen@uconn.edu