“What are triggers for student engagement”

Brian P. Godor

Avans Hogeschool

Identifying Engagement Types

What is Engagement?

How does it differ among programs?

How does it differ among years?

What next?

Engagement

The amount of “physical” and “psychological” energy that the student devotes to the academic

experience.

Engagement Types and Triggers

Specific Engagement Triggers

Specific Engagement Triggers

Dutch Student Population vs. International Student Population

Specific Academies

Specific Academies

Specific Academies

Specific Academies

Engagement Triggers over the study years

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Practice Based Stategic Approach

Model of Persistence

THEORY OF STUDENT INVOLVEMENT

• Focus less on what teachers do and more on what the student does

• More concerned with the behavioral mechanisms or processes that facilitate student development

• Educators are competing with other forces in the student’s life for a share of that finite time and energy

• Every institutional policy and practice can affect the way students spend their time and the amount of effort

• The extent to which students reach this goal is a direct function of the time they spend in productive learning activities

Just imagine…Our students..

• have a higher sense of being part of the classroom discourse (Reid & Solomonides, 2007)

• less likely to prematurely exit higher education (Kuh, et al, 2008)

• feel a greater sense of pride and satisfaction (Skinner & Belmont, 1993)

• more likely to employ a deep approach to their learning (Horstmanshof & Zimitat, 2007, Jansen & Bruinsma, 2005)

• and are more successful in their latter years of study (Severiens & Schmidt, 2009)

Identifying Engagement Types

What is Engagement?

How does it differ among programs?

How does it differ among years?

What next?

“What are triggers for student engagement”

Brian P. Godor

Avans Hogeschool