The Importance of Student Engagement.
Teachers and researchers agree that increases in student engagement in the classroom are directly correlated with improvements in student academic performance.
“For learners of all ages, levels of engagement have been proven to correlate positively with student educational outcomes. Some of the positive outcomes correlated with high levels of engagement include increases in retaining students’ interest in school (Yair, 2000), higher levels of academic achievement (Carini, Kuh, & Klein, 2006; Joselowsky, 2007), increases in retention rates (Smith & Cardaciotto, 2011), and lower dropout rates (Archambault, Janosz, Fallu, & Pagani, 2009).”
“Student Engagement or Simply Participation: How Does a Beginning Teacher Know?”. Pattie Johnston, Colleen Beaudoin, Leslie Jones, and Rebecca Waggett (Kappa Delta Pi Record, International Honor Society in Education, 2015)
“For example, the Education Commission’s Learning Generation report argues that ‘setting clear priorities and high standards, collecting reliable performance data to track system and student progress, and using data to drive accountability are consistent features of the world’s most improved education systems’ (2016, p. 52).”
TOWARD DATA-DRIVEN EDUCATION SYSTEMS: Insights into using information to measure results and manage change. Custer, King, Atinc, Read, Sethi (2018)
“The increase in participation correlated with an improvement in classroom performance. After teaching a period, we administered a quiz on that material and we observed that the student with the highest participation rate also earned the highest score on this assessment. In our focus group there was a noticeable improvement on assessments for the low-performing and average students whose participation rates increased. One low-performing student earned an 87% on an assessment on the multiplication of integers. On another assessment, the entire class average increased by 12%. Remarkably, all but one student scored above 65%, and 13 students out of 30 received perfect scores.”
How does student participation influence student achievement? Professor Tang, Cecelia Reddington, Raymond Canada (NYU Training for All Teachers Project, 2006).
Engaged students
are those students who are actively learning. They
are not passively listening, but are instead actively
constructing, dissecting, analyzing, comparing,
collaborating, contributing, creating; they are reflecting
upon information and ideas as well as how to use
that information and those ideas. Technology is a vital
tool that can be used to foster student engagement
through active learning tasks.
The Science Behind Student Engagement 4. Liane Wardlow, PhD, Research Scientist (Pearson 2017)
“The connection between engagement and positive learning outcomes suggests the value of teachers monitoring and assessing student engagement, and thereby assessing their own effectiveness in delivering engaging instruction. Yet, the assessment of “true” engagement has been problematic for teachers—particularly for beginning teachers trying to figure out what works in their new classrooms (Voke, 2002).”
“Student Engagement or Simply Participation: How Does a Beginning Teacher Know?”. Pattie Johnston, Colleen Beaudoin, Leslie Jones, and Rebecca Waggett (Kappa Delta Pi Record, International Honor Society in Education, 2015)
Technology & Insights in the Hands of Educators.
"While technology can support student learning outside of school, its record inside school is mixed. The best results come when technology is placed in the hands of teachers."
Drivers of student performance: Insights from Europe. Denoël, Dorn, Goodman, Hiltunen, Krawitz, Mourshed. (2017)
"Here efficiency is essential, especially given the time constraints of real-time teaching. If you had twenty minutes to gather data every time you wanted it (referring her to the twenty minutes), of course you'd figure out how your students are doing. The key is being able to do it in 2 minutes. If you can't gather data quickly and simply, you're less likely to do it at all."
Teach Like A Champion 2.0. Doug Lemov (2014)