Three-component model of student engagement: behavioral, emotional, and cognitive¶

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Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 1 study (1 review), q2 · 0 of 1 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description¶

The synthesis organizes student engagement as three interrelated components. Behavioral engagement is doing academic work such as attending class and completing assignments; emotional engagement covers interest, enjoyment, or anxiety about material and feelings about teachers and school; cognitive engagement is actively working to master new skills. The review states that "Engagement has behavioral, emotional, and cognitive components" and that "In practice, all of these are interrelated," with only behavioral engagement observable by others, making it a crucial signal educators must attend to.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Educators must attend to behavioral engagement as the observable signal of overall engagement, since only it is observable by others.

Constraints¶

Target Learners¶

• K-12 students

Target Learning Objectives¶

• Participation and investment in academic learning

Claims¶

• Attendance and effort, more than test scores or demographics, drive course grades, GPA, course failure, graduation, and college readiness [+W]
• Students with more positively oriented academic mindsets show better academic behaviors and earn better grades than students for whom the mindset beliefs do not feel true [+W]

Related Theories¶

• Learning readiness as an operationalization of self-regulated learning (SRL)

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Allensworth, E.M., Farrington, C.A., Gordon, M.F., Johnson, D.W., Klein, K., McDaniel, B., & Nagaoka, J. (2018). Supporting social, emotional, & academic development: Research implications for educators. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Consortium on School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/page/presentations