کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
881335 911720 2009 20 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Student engagement and its relationship with early high school dropout
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی سیاست های بهداشت و سلامت عمومی
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Student engagement and its relationship with early high school dropout
چکیده انگلیسی

Although the concept of school engagement figures prominently in most school dropout theories, there has been little empirical research conducted on its nature and course and, more importantly, the association with dropout. Information on the natural development of school engagement would greatly benefit those interested in preventing student alienation during adolescence. Using a longitudinal sample of 11,827 French-Canadian high school students, we tested behavioral, affective, cognitive indices of engagement both separately and as a global construct. We then assessed their contribution as prospective predictors of school dropout using factor analysis and structural equation modeling. Global engagement reliably predicted school dropout. Among its three specific dimensions, only behavioral engagement made a significant contribution in the prediction equation. Our findings confirm the robustness of the overall multidimensional construct of school engagement, which reflects both cognitive and psychosocial characteristics, and underscore the importance attributed to basic participation and compliance issues in reliably estimating risk of not completing basic schooling during adolescence.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Adolescence - Volume 32, Issue 3, June 2009, Pages 651–670
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