Tag: student engagement

“How it is Useful to Me”: Including Utility Value as a Way to Enhance Statistics Achievement by Yuqing Zou

Statistics achievement is one’s level of success or proficiency in the field of statistics. It is critical to enhance college students’ statistics achievement because it benefits their future research endeavors (Onwuegbuzie 2004). However, many college students, particularly those in traditionally less quantitative programs in social sciences, are shown to exhibit unsatisfying academic behaviors that result in

Reflectiveness, Adaptivity, and Support: How Teacher Agency Promotes Student Engagement. By Kristy Cooper Stein, Tara Kintz, and Andrew Miness

Image by flickr user Maria Belhassan While student engagement is essential to actualizing powerful instruction and authentic learning, engaging students remains challenging for teachers. Persistent student disengagement may not reflect teachers’ lack of attention to engagement. In fact, teachers we spoke with seemed to overwhelmingly recognize engagement as vital to students’ learning. Disengagement also does not