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Rocconi, Louis M.; Ribera, Amy K.; Nelson Laird, Thomas F. – Research in Higher Education, 2015
This study examines the extent to which college seniors' plans for graduate school are related to their tendency to engage in deep approaches to learning (DAL) and their academic environments (majors) as classified by Holland type. Using data from the National Survey of Student Engagement, we analyzed responses from over 116,000 seniors attending…
Descriptors: College Seniors, Graduate Study, Student Educational Objectives, Academic Aspiration
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Axelson, Rick D.; Flick, Arend – Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, 2011
Few terms in the lexicon of higher education today are invoked more frequently, and in more varied ways, than "engagement". The phrase "student engagement" has come to refer to how "involved" or "interested" students appear to be in their learning and how "connected" they are to their classes,…
Descriptors: College Students, Learner Engagement, National Surveys, Educational History