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Contract Learning: A Technique for Motivating Dairy Science Students

Clemson University, Clemson, SC 29631

ABSTRACT

Motivation is a necessity in the classroom if rapid advances in knowledge are to be assimilated by the students. Motivation is more difficult in classes of students entering the course from varied backgrounds. This diversification in background results in a class of students with different educational goals, as well as with different degrees of interest, training, and experiences. There needs to be a teaching method that can compensate for these variations. A learning contract may be a teaching method to meet diversification in skills and goals of the students. A learning contract is a document stating specifically what and how the student will learn during a given time and is agreed to by both instructor and student.

This paper describes points in designing and writing contracts, an example of a learning contract, and some of the advantages and disadvantages of this teaching method.

The Learning contract provides a mechanism of personalizing and humanizing the teaching-learning process.

¹ Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences, Georgia College, Milledgeville 31061.

² Department of Dairy Science.

³ Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.