Main description:

The second edition of the handbook reflects the expanding growth and sophistication in research on student engagement. Editorial scope and coverage are significantly expanded in the new edition, including numerous new chapters that address such topics as child and adolescent well-being, resilience, and social-emotional learning as well as extending student engagement into the realm of college attendance and persistence. In addition to its enhanced focus on student engagement as a means for promoting positive youth development, all original chapters have been extensively revised and updated, including those focusing on such foundational topics related to student engagement as motivation, measurement, high school dropout, school reform, and families.

Key areas of coverage include:

Demography and structural barriers to student engagement.
Developmental and social contexts of student engagement.
Student engagement and resilience.
Engaging students through effective academic instruction and classroom management.
Social-emotional learning and student mental health and physical well-being.
Student engagement across the globe, languages, and cultures.

The second edition of the Handbook of Research on Student Engagement is the definitive resource for researchers, scientist-practitioners and clinicians as well as graduate students in such varied fields as clinical child and school psychology, social work, public health, educational psychology, teaching and teacher education, educational policy, and all interrelated disciplines.

Contents:

Section I: Defining Student Engagement: Models and Related Constructs

1) Jingle Jangle Revisited: History and Further Evolution of the Student Engagement Construct

2) Using the Positive Synergy Between Engagement and Motivation

3) Situated Expectancy Value Theory, Dimensions of Engagement, and Academic Outcomes

4) Study Demands - Resources Model of Student Engagement and Burnout

5) Agentic Engagement

6) Academic Emotions and Student Engagement

7) School Belonging and Student Engagement: The critical overlaps, similarities, and implications for student outcomes.

8) Self-Efficacy and Engaged Learners

9) Using Self-Regulated Learning (SRL) Assessment Data to Promote Regulatory Engagement in Learning and Performance Contexts

10) Hope and Student Engagement/Disengagement

Section II: Student Engagement: Positive Development and Outcomes

11) Relationships between Student Engagement and Mental Health as Conceptualized from a Dual-Factor Model

12) Resilience and Student Engagement: Promotive and Protective Processes in Schools

13) Developmental Relationships and Student Academic Motivation: Current Research and Future Directions.

14) Early Childhood Engagement

15) Using Positive Student Engagement to Create Opportunities for Students with Troubling and High-Risk Behaviors

16) Student Engagement and School Dropout: Theories, Evidence, and Future Directions

17) Exploring the Character of Student Persistence in Higher Education: The Impact of Perception, Motivation, and Engagement

Section III: Contexts for Engagement

18) Expanding an Equity Understanding of Student Engagement: The Macro (Social) and Micro (School) Contexts.

19) Parental Influences on Achievement Motivation and Student Engagement

20) Teacher-Student Relationships, engagement in school, and student outcomes

21) The Role of Peer Relationships on Academic and Extracurricular Engagement in School

22) Instruction and Student Engagement: Implications for Academic Engaged Time

23) The Role of Academic Engagement in Students' Educational Development: Insights from Load Reduction Instruction and the 4M Academic Engagement Framework.

24) Achievement Goal Theory and Engagement

25) Student Engagement: The Importance of the Classroom Context

26) Student Engagement and Learning Climate

27) Engaging High School Students in Learning

28) : The Role of Policy in Supporting Student Engagement

Section IV: Measurement

29) The Measurement of Student Engagement: Methodological Advances and Comparison of New Self-Report Instruments.

30) "Measuring Student Engagement with Observational Techniques) "

31) Multicultural and Cross-Cultural Considerations in Understanding Student Engagement in Schools: Promoting the development of Diverse Students Around the World

32) Measuring Student Engagement: New Approaches and Issues

33) Advances in Student Engagement: Conceptual, Empirical, and Applied Considerations