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Abstract and Evaluation

Dalena V. Pham

Midwestern State University

Bachelor of Science in Radiologic Technology Program

RADS 4912

September 17, 2018

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Motivating Students in the 21st Century. Mandy L. Sedden and Kevin R. Clark.

Radiologic Technology. 87(6): 609-616 (2016).

This report is concern with the millennial students’ and the educators’ perception on the

motivation of learning based on each other, a classroom setting, and a clinical setting. The

authors used databases with key terms to generate studies and peer-reviewed articles from 2006

to 2015, which were geared towards the approach of instructors to engage the students to

comprehend in the course. This article concluded that in a classroom setting, there are those who

are intrinsically motivated learners while others are extrinsically motivated learners; therefore,

instructors must find the types of students they have in their class in order to engage all the

students to strive to succeed in the course.

I agree that instructors must know what kind of learners they have in the class in order to

have an instructional plan to enlighten students to learn and aim for success. This is especially

true in the clinical environment, where the clinical instructor is as passionate as the students are

in learning and caring in the field.

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Reference

Sedden, M. L., & Clark, K. R. (2016). Motivating students in the 21st century. Radiologic

Technology, 87(6), 609-616. Retrieved from

http://www.radiologictechnology.org/content/87/6/609.short