Only about one-third of quantitative ECEC engagement studies provide an explicit definition of child engagement or involvement¶

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q3 i? Of 286 identified quantitative studies of child engagement in ECEC settings, only 105 (37%) provided a definition of child engagement or involvement in their introduction or background section. → Ritoša 2023

Evidence¶

Ritoša 2023¶

Ritoša, A., Åström, F., Björck, E., Borglund, L., Karlsson, E., McHugh, E., & Nylander, E. (2023). Measuring Children's Engagement in Early Childhood Education and Care Settings: A Scoping Literature Review. Educational Psychology Review. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10648-023-09815-4

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The review's summative content analysis of definitions across the 286 included studies found that "only 105 studies (37%) provided a definition of child engagement or involvement, or both"; 90 defined engagement, 14 involvement, and one defined both. No effect size is printed.

"Out of the 286 identified studies, only 105 studies (37%) provided a definition of child engagement or involvement, or both, in their introduction/background section; 90 studies provided a definition of child engagement, 14 studies included a definition of child involvement, and one study defined both child engagement and involvement."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• Explicit theoretical frameworks of engagement were provided in only 14% of the reviewed ECEC studies — related
• In ECEC research, engagement is typically defined as behaviors and interactions with the environment while involvement is described as an internal experience — related
• The field uses 77 unique established engagement measures, yet more than one-third of studies rely on unestablished author-created measures — related