Middle School Students' Perceptions of Social Dimensions as Influencers of Academic Engagement

Autor/inn/en	Bishop, Penny A.; Pflaum, Susanna W.
Titel	Middle School Students' Perceptions of Social Dimensions as Influencers of Academic Engagement
Quelle	In: RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 29 (2005) 2, S.1-14 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1940-4476
Schlagwörter	Middle School Students; Student Attitudes; Academic Achievement; Student Participation; Rural Schools; Student Motivation; Freehand Drawing; Interviews; Socioeconomic Influences; Age Differences; Gender Differences; Institutional Characteristics; Social Influences; Classroom Environment; Environmental Influences; Leadership; Peer Influence + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Schülerverhalten; Schulleistung; Schülermitarbeit; Schülermitwirkung; Studentische Mitbestimmung; Rural area; Rural areas; School; Schools; Ländlicher Raum; Schule; Schulen; Schulische Motivation; Drawing; Zeichnen; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Sozioökonomischer Faktor; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Geschlechterkonflikt; Sozialer Einfluss; Klassenklima; Unterrichtsklima; Environmental influence; Umwelteinfluss; Führung; Führungsposition
Abstract	This qualitative study investigates rural middle school students' perceptions of academic engagement. Participant-produced drawings (Kearney & Hyle, 2003), integrated with a series of semi-structured interviews (Patton, 2002), served as the primary data collection techniques. Twenty middle school students participated, stratified for socioeconomic status, grade level, gender, history of academic achievement, and school type. Findings indicate students strongly perceived the social conditions of the classroom as influencing their academic engagement, positively through an authentic community and leadership opportunities; and negatively through distraction and the judgment of peers. (Contains 1 table.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10