Early Elementary Influences on Student Engagement in Learning

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dc.contributor.advisorGottfredson, Gary Den_US
dc.contributor.authorNese, Joseph Fen_US
dc.contributor.departmentCounseling and Personnel Servicesen_US
dc.contributor.publisherDigital Repository at the University of Marylanden_US
dc.contributor.publisherUniversity of Maryland (College Park, Md.)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2007-02-01T20:24:05Z
dc.date.available2007-02-01T20:24:05Z
dc.date.issued2006-12-11en_US
dc.description.abstractStudent engagement is a process that combines the attention, interest, investment, and effort students expend in work towards learning. Studies have shown that engagement leads to academic achievement and that disengaged students have lower scores on achievement tests and a higher probability of dropping out of school (Connell et al. 1994; Finn et al., 1995; Marks, 2000). The goal of this study was to probe the validity of an explicit predictive model of the antecedents of engagement involving measures of prior achievement, ethnicity, sex, socioeconomic status, and parent involvement and the total effect of these variables decomposed into direct and indirect (via engagement) effects on academic achievement. Results indicate that a self-report measure of engagement was found to predict achievement for a sample of 676 third grade students but that engagement had no incremental validity in predicting achievement. The construct validity of engagement and parent involvement measures are discussed.en_US
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dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/4232
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subject.pqcontrolledEducational psychologyen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledEngagementen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledAcademic achievementen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledElementary schoolen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledStructural modelen_US
dc.subject.pquncontrolledLearningen_US
dc.titleEarly Elementary Influences on Student Engagement in Learningen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US

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