School engagement profiles in Chilean secondary students
Autor
de Toro, Ximena
Saracostti, Mahia
Lara, Laura
Miranda, Horacio
Miranda-Zapata, Edgardo
Resumen
School engagement is considered a key variable in promoting educational trajectories. Previous research shows that maintaining high levels of school engagement is fundamental, given its association with multiple academic results and lower-risk behaviors. This article aims to show how school engagement profiles (based on the behavioral, affective, and cognitive subdimensions) relate to academic achievement (math and language), contextual factors (family, teachers, and peer support), and gender. This study involved 527 students enrolled in the 1st year of secondary education in public schools in Chile. All students came from vulnerable schools. Our study used cluster analysis to identify students’ profiles. We identified the existence of three different profiles of school engagement (high, medium, and low) considering the three subdimensions of school engagement (behavioral, affective and cognitive). Secondly, ANOVA analysis showed differences in language and math academic achievement scores between the profiles, where higher engagement students showed higher academic performance in language and math. These findings are consistent with previous studies showing that contextual factors strongly influence school engagement and better behavioral engagement in female than male students. It will discuss the pertinence of person-centered approaches focusing on combinations of variables within students rather than taking each variable as the focal point when analyzing goals. These techniques are a favorable methodological alternative to investigate why some students have better results than others instead of just ranking students by their performance. It will conclude with some future lines of research and practical implications.
Colecciones
Ítems relacionados
Mostrando ítems relacionados por Título, autor o materia.
-
Article
Longitudinal analysis of school performance according to school engagement and contextual factors: The chilean case (2021)
Miranda, Horacio; Miranda-Zapata, Edgardo Daniel; Lara, Laura; Saracostti-Schwartzman, Mahia (AIDEP, 2021)In order to quantify the effect of contextual factors on school engagement and school performance variables: Grade point average (GPA) and class attendance in Chilean schoolchildren evaluated at two moments in time, a ... -
Article
Modeling the school engagement effect on school performance in five iberoamerican countries (2021)
Miranda-Zapata, Edgardo Daniel; Lara, Laura; Saracostti-Schwartzman, Mahia (AIDEP, 2021)The objective of this study to understand school engagement as mediator variable between contextual factors and school achievement in students from Chile, Colombia, Spain, Perú and Uruguay. The causal model links school ... -
Article
Online platform for the evaluation of school engagement, 2.0 version: From the chilean experience to its use in iberoamerican countries (2021)
Saracostti-Schwartzman, Mahia; Sotomayor, Belén; Hernández, María Teresa; Lara, Laura; Miranda-Zapata, Edgardo Daniel; Aparicio, José; Díaz Jiménez, Rosa María; Acevedo, Fernando; Dominguez-Lara, Sergio Alexis (AIDEP, 2021)This article presents the development of version 2.0 of a technological platform for evaluating school engagement in Chile, Colombia, Peru, Uruguay and Spain. The platform contains instruments for measuring school engagement ...