The significance and effectiveness of pre-reading activities in the contexts of both ESL and EFL has been acknowledged by many researchers. If students lack the required background knowledge, a teacher must activate students’ background knowledge or offer background information prior to reading a text. The present study aimed at investigating the role of pre-reading questions plus extensive rea...

Student engagement, and in particular intellectual engagement, has been identified as a key factor in learning at the high school level. While this type of engagement has an impact on student learning in fields related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), it also has a positive impact on the learning of other disciplines such as English, Fine Arts, and Social Sciences. Th...

The positive relationship between student engagement and achievement is well documented, but the nature of this engagement is less-widely considered and narrowly defined. This project investigated the levels of behavioural, emotional and cognitive engagement of students in a technology-rich learning project. A class of 22 Year 3 students, one participant-observer classroom teacher and two pre-s...

Although there is evidence that academically successful students are engaged with their studies, it has proved difficult to define student engagement clearly. Student engagement is commonly construed as having two dimensions, social and academic. The rapid adoption of social media and digital technologies has ensured increasing interest in using them for improving student engagement. This paper...

The current paper focuses on modeling actions of high school students with a mathematics tutoring system with Hidden Markov Models. The results indicated that including a hidden state estimate of learner engagement increased the accuracy and predictive power of the models, both within and across tutoring sessions. Groups of students with distinct engagement trajectories were identified, and fin...

Engagement has been viewed as an important construct to understand students’ learning performances in classroom settings. Taking an interactive perspective, the study investigates ninth graders’ cognitive, emotional, and behavioral engagement in teacher-centered (TC) and student-centered (SC) technology-enhanced classrooms. 54 students from two science classes in Taiwan participated in this stu...

Social media and mobile phones have emerged as important platforms for college students' communication activities. This study examined how college students' psychological need to belong is associated with their use of social media and smartphones. In addition, it further investigated the effects of college students' digital media use on their social engagement. Findings revealed that students' ...