Silver linings and storm clouds: Divergent profiles of student momentary engagement emerge in response to the same task.

Previous research has demonstrated that student motivation and engagement can take different forms across a variety of tasks at school or college. However, no yet examined the momentary emerge in response to single task. Adolescent students (N = 196) from two low-income secondary schools Dublin, Ireland were given same English grammar task complete 10-min period. We used systematic observation posttask self-report measures collect data on cognition, emotion, motivation, behavior. Using latent profile analysis, we discovered seven main (dis)engagement: fully engaged, attentive but amotivated, disinterested, disaffected, distracted motivated, disengaged, deeply disengaged. Gender, ethnicity, academic self-efficacy, peer support, classmate cognitive notable predictors group membership. The results should be useful educators wanting understand why their classrooms have responses (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved)