Agency as a Fourth Aspect of Students' Engagement during Learning Activities

Autor/inn/en	Reeve, Johnmarshall; Tseng, Ching-Mei
Titel	Agency as a Fourth Aspect of Students' Engagement during Learning Activities
Quelle	In: Contemporary Educational Psychology, 36 (2011) 4, S.257-267 (11 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0361-476X
DOI	10.1016/j.cedpsych.2011.05.002
Schlagwörter	Learner Engagement; Learning Activities; High School Students; Student Motivation; Structural Equation Models; Foreign Countries; Taiwan + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernaktivität; High school; High schools; Student; Students; Oberschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; Schulische Motivation; Ausland
Abstract	While a consensus has emerged to characterize student engagement during learning activities as a three-component construct featuring behavioral, emotional, and cognitive aspects, we propose adding agentic engagement as an important new aspect, which we define as students' constructive contribution into the flow of the instruction they receive. High school students (237 females, 128 males) from Taiwan completed surveys of their classroom motivation and the four hypothesized aspects of engagement while grades were obtained at the end of the semester. Structural equation modeling analyses showed that agentic engagement was both a distinct and an important construct, one that was associated with students' constructive motivation, related to each of the other three aspects of engagement, and predicted independent variance in achievement. The discussion highlights the important, though currently neglected, ways that students contribute constructively into the flow of the instruction they receive, as by personalizing it and by enhancing both the lesson and the conditions under which they learn. (Contains 4 tables and 1 figure.) (As Provided).
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