The current emphasis on performance outcomes in schools has threatened to eclipse the importance of social connectedness as an antecedent to student success. Presented is an instrument designed to measure student sense of connectedness with school based on relevant dimensions provided in the literature: student sense of belonging, engagement, expected learning, and trust. Drawing on data from o...

Walking in to teach your first lecture as a newly minted assistant professor can be an intimidating experience. All eyes are on you, and the facial expressions of the students communicate emotions ranging from interest and excitement to boredom and sleepy disengagement. You know you want to hook your students on the class subject as soon as possible to encourage them to be more responsible for ...

In this paper, we explored the research question: Does Twitter in a large-lecture format university course produced a difference in levels of selfreported student engagement? To do so, we utilize a quasi-experimental design testing the effect of Twitter on student engagement in introductory sociology and anthropology courses. Our hypotheses predicted that students using Twitter would report hig...

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the effect of interactional management style on academic adjustment, mathematical anxiety, and academic engagement in elementary sixth grade students. Methodology:  This research is applied in terms of purpose and quasi-experimental in terms of method and with pre-test-post-test design with experimental group and control group. The statistical ...

This paper reports on research that extends knowledge about higher education students’ perceptions of online engagement. In particular, the study aimed to identify what students thought engagement was and how they experienced it. Understanding views will provide a more comprehensive understanding topic should assist instructional designers support academic staff develop courses are likely engag...

We test our hypothesis that student in-class Internet actions reflect their engagement levels. We predict that an engaging learning environment will result in students performing a higher number of on-task Internet activities. To test our hypothesis, we compare student behaviors during two types of instructional episodes. Students participate in either a traditional, lecture-based lesson or an ...

The relationship between student engagement and learning outcomes has been extensively studied in the context of online learning. However, it has been less investigated in face-toface learning. In this paper, we describe initial findings from a study of student engagement and outcomes at a ‘bricks-and-mortar’ (BaM) university, where engagement is characterized by a diverse set of systems and ag...