Conceptualising and Measuring Student Engagement through the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE): A Critique

Autor/inn/en	Hagel, Pauline; Carr, Rodney; Devlin, Marcia
Titel	Conceptualising and Measuring Student Engagement through the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE): A Critique
Quelle	In: Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 37 (2012) 4, S.475-486 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0260-2938
DOI	10.1080/02602938.2010.545870
Schlagwörter	Learner Engagement; Context Effect; Foreign Countries; Surveys; Higher Education; Time on Task; Secondary Education; Feedback (Response); Australia; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; Zeitaufwand; Sekundarbereich; Australien; USA
Abstract	Student engagement has rapidly developed a central place in the quality agenda of Australian universities since the introduction of the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE). The AUSSE is based on one developed in the USA. The main arguments given for adopting this survey in Australia are that it provides a valid instrument for measuring engagement and that it enables international comparisons. However, the survey instrument and scales have been adopted with little scrutiny of these arguments. This paper examines these arguments by considering different perspectives of engagement, examining the importance of contextual differences and evaluating the AUSSE engagement scales in the light of both. The paper concludes that the AUSSE results should be used by universities and policy-makers with caution. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10