Engagement

Student engagement is among the most studied constructs in education research, yet it is among the least consistently defined. It is variously understood as a behaviour, an emotional state, a cognitive disposition and a social phenomenon, and these dimensions do not always move together.

This collection examines what engagement is, how it is measured, and what the evidence shows about its causes and consequences across secondary schooling.

Engaging students Creating classrooms that improve learning

Grattan Institute
2017

This Grattan Institute paper draws on national data to show that around 40% of Australian students are regularly unproductive in class — and that the...

(Re)Conceptualising Student Engagement: Doing Education Not Doing Time

Zyngier, D.
2008

Written by a Monash University researcher drawing on action research in a disadvantaged Victorian high school, this paper challenges mainstream definitions of...