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Tara Hofkens
Researcher at University of Virginia
Publications - 21
Citations - 1236
Tara Hofkens is an academic researcher from University of Virginia. The author has contributed to research in topics: Student engagement & Academic achievement. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 17 publications receiving 789 citations. Previous affiliations of Tara Hofkens include University of Pittsburgh.
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The Math and Science Engagement Scales: Scale development, validation, and psychometric properties
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed and validated student and teacher-report survey measures of student engagement in math and science, which are built around a multidimensional perspective of engagement by using a bifactor modeling approach.
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The trajectories of student emotional engagement and school burnout with academic and psychological development: Findings from Finnish adolescents
TL;DR: This article examined the longitudinal trajectories of emotional engagement and school burnout in Finnish adolescents from 9th to 11th grade and how these trajectories related to the development of adolescents' academic performance and depressive symptoms.
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Using qualitative methods to develop a survey measure of math and science engagement
Jennifer A. Fredricks,Ming-Te Wang,Jacqueline Schall Linn,Tara Hofkens,Hannah Sung,Alyssa Parr,Julia Allerton +6 more
TL;DR: This article conducted in-depth interviews with 106 students from sixth to twelfth grade and 34 middle and high school teachers about how they conceptualized math and science engagement and disengagement, and used this qualitative information from students and teachers to develop and validate a new student self-report measure of Math and Science engagement.
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Parental Involvement and African American and European American Adolescents' Academic, Behavioral, and Emotional Development in Secondary School
TL;DR: Each aspect of parental involvement contributed differentially but significantly to adolescent outcomes and parental warmth moderated the associations between providing structure at home and adolescent grade point average and problem behavior.
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Conceptualization and Assessment of Adolescents’ Engagement and Disengagement in School
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a mixed method sequential exploratory design to develop and validate a student survey measure of school engagement that reflects a multidimensional conceptualization of engagement.