Resources and Extension - Module 3: Agency
Resources
- Quick Tip Sheet for Creating Accessible Materials from Vanderbilt University’s Center for Teaching.1 This resource includes how-tos on converting a PowerPoint to an RFT, converting a PDF to a Word Document, captioning videos, adding image/figure descriptions, and adding audio descriptions to a video.
- Read more about Learning Partnerships from the National Equity Project.6
- Read the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) Student Agency for 2023 Policy, where the concept of student agency “is rooted in the principle that students have the ability and the will to positively influence their own lives and the world around them (p. 2).7
- The video below is a presentation of the theory of self authorship specifically as it applies to college student development through the lens of Marsha Baxter-Magolda.8 It is important for those trying to promote the achievement of learning outcomes in college students.
Extensions
- Assistive Technology Resource Centers of Hawaii (ATRC): A non-profit organization whose mission is to link people with technology and empower individuals through its use. ATRC is the State of Hawai’i’s designated Assistive Technology Act agency.9
- Further reading is this 2018 Special Issue of Learned Publishing, which focuses on accessibility in publishing.10
- Read the journal article by Bandura (2001) – Social cognitive theory: An agentic perspective. 11
- Read the journal article by Smyth (2006) – When students have power.12
- Read the journal article by Code (2020) – Agency for learning: Intention, motivation, self-efficacy, and self-regulation.13
- Center for Teaching Vanderbilt University. (n.d.). Quick tip sheet for creating accessible materials. https://cft.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/59/Quick-Tip-Sheet-for-Creating-Accessible-Materials.docx.
- WebAIM. (2021, January 9). WebAIM: Contrast and Color Accessibility – Understanding WCAG 2 Contrast and Color Requirements. Webaim.org. https://webaim.org/articles/contrast/.
- WebAIM. (2021). WAVE Web Accessibility Tool. Wave.webaim.org. https://wave.webaim.org/.
- Create and verify PDF accessibility (Acrobat Pro). (2022). Adobe.com. https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/create-verify-pdf-accessibility.html.
- Grackle Docs – Google Workspace Marketplace. (n.d.). Workspace.google.com. https://workspace.google.com/marketplace/app/grackle_docs/1085622905455.
- National equity project. (n.d.). Learning partnerships. https://www.nationalequityproject.org/frameworks/learning-partnerships.
- Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (n.d.). Student Agency for 2023 Policy. https://search.oecd.org/education/2030-project/teaching-and-learning/learning/student-agency/Student_Agency_for_2030_concept_note.pdf.
- Strickland, D. (2018). Baxter-Magolda’s Self-Authorship-Theory-Video-by-Strickland. In YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yDaIyhzNOow
- Assistive Technology Resource Centers of Hawaii. ATRC. (n.d.). https://atrc.org/.
- Learned publishing Volume 31, Issue 1. (2018). Learned Publishing, 21(1), 1-88. https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/17414857/2018/31/1.
- Bandura, A. (2001). Social cognitive theory: An agentic perspective. Annual review of psychology, 52(1), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.psych.52.1.1.
- Smyth, J. (2006). When students have power. International Journal of Leadership in Education, 9(4), 285–298. https://doi.org/10.1080/13603120600894232.
- Code, J. (2020). Agency for learning: Intention, motivation, self-efficacy and self-regulation. Frontiers in Genetics, 5(19). https://doi.org/10.3389/feduc.2020.00019.
