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The Impact of the Learning Environment on Student Engagement in High School Classrooms by David J. Shernoff, Stephen M. Tonks & Brett Anderson — 2014This chapter presents a study that investigated characteristics of the learning environment predicting for student engagement in public high school classrooms. Students in seven high school classrooms in five different subject areas were observed and videoed in order to predict their engagement as measured by the experience sampling method (ESM).To view the full-text for this article you must be signed-in with the appropropriate membership. Please review your options below: | This article originally appeared as NSSE Yearbook Vol 113, No. 1. |
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- David Shernoff
Rutgers University
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DAVID J. SHERNOFF is visiting associate professor at Rutgers University
and associate professor of educational psychology at Northern Illinois
University. His research interests include student motivation and engaging
learning environments, engagement in educational video games, and
mentoring. Recent publications include the 2013 book, Optimal Learning
Environments to Promote Student Engagement (Springer), and the book
chapter, "Engagement and positive youth development: Creating optimal
learning environments” which appeared in the (2012) APA Educational
Psychology Handbook.
- Stephen Tonks
Northern Illinois University
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STEPHEN M. TONKS is an associate professor of educational psychology
at Northern Illinois University whose research interests include student
motivation, reading engagement, and cultural influences, especially
in Japan. A recent (2011) publication (with A. Taboada) is “Developing
self-regulated readers through instruction for reading engagement” in the
Handbook of Self-Regulation of Learning and Performance (Routledge).
- Brett Anderson
University of Minnesota
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BRETT ANDERSON received his M.S.Ed. in educational psychology from
Northern Illinois University and currently works in the Behavioral Health
Services Department of the University of Minnesota Medical Center. His
research interests include student engagement and motivation, positive
youth development, and well-being. A recently chapter published in the
APA book Activities for Teaching Positive Psychology was “Flow and optimal learning environments” (2013, with David J. Shernoff).
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