Journal ArticleDOI
Defining Student Engagement
Rick D. Axelson,Arend Flick +1 more
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
Few terms in the lexicon of higher education today are invoked more frequently, and in more varied ways, than engagement, and none (except perhaps "funding") is employed more often to describe what higher education is about than engagement as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Few terms in the lexicon of higher education today are invoked more frequently, and in more varied ways, than engagement. None (except perhaps “funding”) is employed more often to describe what ins...read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Computer-based technology and student engagement: a critical review of the literature
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a critical review of the literature from the past 5 years related to how web-conferencing software, blogs, wikis, social networking sites (Facebook and Twitter), and digital games influence student engagement.
Book ChapterDOI
Student Engagement: Bridging Research and Practice to Improve the Quality of Undergraduate Education
TL;DR: This chapter traces the development of student engagement as a research-informed intervention to shift the discourse on quality in higher education to emphasize matters of teaching and learning while providing colleges and universities with diagnostic, actionable information that can inform improvement efforts.
Journal ArticleDOI
A Comparative Study of Student Engagement, Satisfaction, and Academic Success among International and American Students.
Nadia Korobova,Soko S. Starobin +1 more
TL;DR: This article examined the relationship between student engagement, student satisfaction, and academic success of international and American students using 2008 National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE) data and found that international students scored slightly higher than American students on enriching educational experiences and supportive campus environment/institutional emphases during their senior year benchmarks.
Journal ArticleDOI
The roles of academic engagement and digital readiness in students’ achievements in university e-learning environments
TL;DR: In this paper, the mediating roles of academic engagement and digital readiness within the university context of an e-learning environment for academic achievement were examined for a total of 614 undergraduate students enrolled in a Korean university.
Journal Article
Student Perceptions of Classroom Engagement and Learning using iPads
TL;DR: In this article, a multidisciplinary assessment of student perceptions of engagement and learning using iPads is presented, where student reactions following multiple classroom activities using iPads are measured via a survey asking them to rate their learning and engagement using a 5-point Likert scale.
References
More filters
Book
How people learn: Brain, mind, experience, and school.
TL;DR: New developments in the science of learning as mentioned in this paper overview mind and brain how experts differ from novices how children learn learning and transfer the learning environment curriculum, instruction and commnity effective teaching.
Book
Leaving College: Rethinking the Causes and Cures of Student Attrition
TL;DR: In the second edition of this text, Tinto synthesizes far-ranging research on student attrition and on actions institutions can and should take to reduce student attrition as mentioned in this paper, showing that effective retention is in a strong commitment to quality education and the building of a strong sense of inclusive educational and social community on campus.
Journal ArticleDOI
School Engagement: Potential of the Concept, State of the Evidence
TL;DR: The concept of school engagement has attracted increasing attention as representing a possible antidote to declining academic motivation and achievement as mentioned in this paper, and it is presumed to be malleable, responsive to contextual features, and amenable to environmental change.
Journal Article
How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research. Volume 2.
Book
How College Affects Students: A Third Decade of Research
TL;DR: The second volume of Pascarella and Terenzini's 1991 award-winning review of the research on the impacts of college on students is presented in this paper, where the authors review their earlier findings and synthesize what has been learned since 1990 about college's influences on students' learning.