Student engagement

Student engagement occurs when "students make a psychological investment in learning. They try hard to learn what school offers. They take pride not simply in earning the formal indicators of success (grades and qualifications), but in understanding the material and incorporating or internalizing it in their lives."[1]

Since the U.S. college dropout rate for first-time-in college degree-seeking students is nearly 50%,[2] it is increasingly seen as an indicator of successful classroom instruction, and as a valued outcome of school reform.[3][clarification needed] The phrase was identified in 1996 as "the latest buzzword in education circles."[4] Students are engaged when they are involved in their work, persist despite challenges and obstacles, and take visible delight in accomplishing their work.[5] Student engagement also refers to a "student's willingness, need, desire and compulsion to participate in, and be successful in, the learning process promoting higher level thinking for enduring understanding."[6] Student engagement is also a usefully ambiguous term for the complexity of 'engagement' beyond the fragmented domains of cognition, behaviour, emotion or affect, and in doing so encompass the historically situated individual within their contextual variables (such as personal and familial circumstances) that at every moment influence how engaged an individual (or group) is in their learning.[7][8]

  1. ^ Newmann, F. (1992) Student Engagement and Achievement in American Secondary Schools. Teachers College Press. pp. 2–3.
  2. ^ Shapiro, D.; Dundar, A.; Wakhungu, P.; Yuan, X. & Harrell, A. (February 2015). "Completing College: A State-Level View of Student Attainment Rates (Signature Report No. 8a)" (PDF). National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. Retrieved February 23, 2016.
  3. ^ Waston, Sarah. "BENEFITS AND STRATEGIES OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT". Edufena. Sarah Watson. Retrieved June 28, 2015.
  4. ^ Kenny, G. Kenny, D. and Dumont, R. (1995) Mission and Place: Strengthening Learning and Community Through Campus Design. Oryx/Greenwood. p. 37
  5. ^ Schlechty, P. (1994). "Increasing Student Engagement." Missouri Leadership Academy. p. 5.
  6. ^ Bomia, L., Beluzo, L., Demeester, D., Elander, K., Johnson, M., & Sheldon, B. (1997). "The impact of teaching strategies on intrinsic motivation." Champaign, IL: ERIC Clearinghouse on Elementary and Early Childhood Education. p. 294.
  7. ^ Hiver, Phil; Al-Hoorie, Ali H.; Mercer, Sarah (2021). Student engagement in the language classroom. Bristol, UK: Multilingual Matters. ISBN 9781788923590.
  8. ^ Hiver, Phil; Al-Hoorie, Ali H.; Vitta, Joseph P.; Wu, Janice (2021). "Engagement in language learning: A systematic review of 20 years of research methods and definitions". Language Teaching Research. Advance online publication. doi:10.1177/13621688211001289. S2CID 233655097.