The Effects of Student-Led Conferences on Learning Motivation and Responsibility: An Action Research Study

During the 2023-2024 school year, 6th-grade students from an urban Primary School participated in a parent reporting programme utilising the "Student-Led Conference" (SLC) method. The purpose of this action research was twofold: firstly, to empower students’ involvement in informing their parents; and secondly, to investigate their views regarding the method"s impact on their motivation and sense of personal responsibility for learning, as well as their perceptions of the implementation process. For data collection, a questionnaire with both closed and open-ended questions was administered at the end of the first and the third trimesters. The results indicated that SLCs were accepted as a positive pedagogical practice that reinforced students" active involvement, cultivated their autonomy and critical self-awareness, and contributed to the formation of responsible attitudes towards learning. Students’ suggestions for improvement primarily focused on technical issues of implementation, confirming the acceptance of the method’s pedagogical core.