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Betts, Joseph E.; Appleton, James J.; Reschly, Amy L.; Christenson, Sandra L.; Huebner, E. Scott – School Psychology Quarterly, 2010
The construct of student engagement is increasingly prevalent in the field of education, serving as the foundation of dropout prevention and high school reform initiatives. The purpose of this study was to further examine 1 measure of student engagement, the Student Engagement Instrument (SEI), designed to measure 2 subtypes of student engagement:…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Dropout Prevention, Reliability, Factor Structure
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Tse, Shek Kam; Yuen, Allan Hoi Kau; Loh, Elizabeth Ka Yee; Lam, Joseph Wai Ip; Ng, Rex Hung Wai – Australasian Journal of Educational Technology, 2010
This study looked at the types of blog consulted by 1,298 Primary 4 students in Hong Kong and whether such consultation influenced performance on standardised tests of Chinese and English reading comprehension. When students were asked if they consulted Chinese and English blogs, 42% said they looked at Chinese blogs and 19% said they looked at…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, Web Sites, Electronic Publishing, Reading Achievement