Article Critique of Student Engagement in the Classroom: The Impact of Classroom, Teacher, and Student Factors
Discussion
The core emphasis of this research article was joint coordinate engagement by students with or without autism spectrum disorders. There are two main objectives present throughout the article. The first concept is the relationship between environmental classroom factors and student coordinated joint engagement (Steinbrenner, 2015, p. 2394). The second concept is the relationship between the characteristic of the student and coordinated joint engagement (Steinbrenner, 2015, p. 2394). The first objective yielded a result that there was a relationship found between student coordinated joint engagement with student-directed …show more content…
2403). Also, similar to the first objective, there was a second factor involved. Expressive communication of the student was suggestively related to coordinated joint engagement (Steinbrenner, 2015, p. 2403). This article and study was engaged to fill in major gaps of previous research done with autism spectrum disorders. It is mentioned and widely known theme that the diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder has drastically increased in school-aged children. With increasing numbers of children in classrooms with different needs depending on their diagnosis, more and more research has ascended for interventions and little has arisen for educationally serve these children in a classroom (Steinbrenner, 2015, p. 2392). This article devotes a considerable amount to all of research on student engagement, which can be defined in many manners. The definition of engagement Steinbrenner (2015) used for this study is “capturing aspects of the environment and the individual. The environment taps into the quantity and quality of learning opportunities, and includes things related to the task or activities and to interactions and characteristics of the environment. The aspects of engagement related to the individual may include
Discussion
The core emphasis of this research article was joint coordinate engagement by students with or without autism spectrum disorders. There are two main objectives present throughout the article. The first concept is the relationship between environmental classroom factors and student coordinated joint engagement (Steinbrenner, 2015, p. 2394). The second concept is the relationship between the characteristic of the student and coordinated joint engagement (Steinbrenner, 2015, p. 2394). The first objective yielded a result that there was a relationship found between student coordinated joint engagement with student-directed …show more content…
2403). Also, similar to the first objective, there was a second factor involved. Expressive communication of the student was suggestively related to coordinated joint engagement (Steinbrenner, 2015, p. 2403). This article and study was engaged to fill in major gaps of previous research done with autism spectrum disorders. It is mentioned and widely known theme that the diagnosis of an autism spectrum disorder has drastically increased in school-aged children. With increasing numbers of children in classrooms with different needs depending on their diagnosis, more and more research has ascended for interventions and little has arisen for educationally serve these children in a classroom (Steinbrenner, 2015, p. 2392). This article devotes a considerable amount to all of research on student engagement, which can be defined in many manners. The definition of engagement Steinbrenner (2015) used for this study is “capturing aspects of the environment and the individual. The environment taps into the quantity and quality of learning opportunities, and includes things related to the task or activities and to interactions and characteristics of the environment. The aspects of engagement related to the individual may include