School Engagement (SE) has become a significantly popular topic of psychological research in recent decades. Better engagement definitely influences achievement, success, aspiration, desire, future establishment and overall development of personality. . A frequently used measure of SE is the School Engagement Scale (SES) developed by Fredricks, Blumenfeld, Friedel, and Paris (2003). The SES comprises 19 items under three subscales. Since its development, a number of validation studies have been done in various cultures. However, a Bangla version of such an important measure was lacking so far. The aim of this study was to translate the instrument into Bangla and validate it in Bangladeshi culture. A total of 1000 participants (491 males and
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School engagement is an emerging concept that can be defined in different ways in an effort to assess the extent to which school children are involved, connected, and committed to school and motivated to learn and achieve. It is often measured as one aspect of school bonding (Gonzalez-DeHass, Willems, & Holbein, 2005). It is also a malleable state that can be shaped by school context, therefore holding tremendous potential as a locus for interventions (Jimmerson, Campos, & Grief, …show more content…
Such an attention considers the importance of the students’ engagement in school for their academic achievement, educational enrolment, and well-being (Willms, 2003). Decreases in motivation, performance, desire, and school engagement during adolescence are concerns of parents, teachers, development workers, and policy makers. Adolescents’ school engagement can be facilitated by contextual influences at the school, family, peer, community, and government level throughout the school years (Appleton, Christenson, & Furlong, 2008). So, it is important to measure engagement behavior of students during adolescents period of time. This measurement would help to identify family, peer, and social background factors of engagement, cause of disengagement, role of cognitive and emotional factors to engagement etc. But there is no scientific assessment tool for measuring the same in Bangladesh still
School engagement is an emerging concept that can be defined in different ways in an effort to assess the extent to which school children are involved, connected, and committed to school and motivated to learn and achieve. It is often measured as one aspect of school bonding (Gonzalez-DeHass, Willems, & Holbein, 2005). It is also a malleable state that can be shaped by school context, therefore holding tremendous potential as a locus for interventions (Jimmerson, Campos, & Grief, …show more content…
Such an attention considers the importance of the students’ engagement in school for their academic achievement, educational enrolment, and well-being (Willms, 2003). Decreases in motivation, performance, desire, and school engagement during adolescence are concerns of parents, teachers, development workers, and policy makers. Adolescents’ school engagement can be facilitated by contextual influences at the school, family, peer, community, and government level throughout the school years (Appleton, Christenson, & Furlong, 2008). So, it is important to measure engagement behavior of students during adolescents period of time. This measurement would help to identify family, peer, and social background factors of engagement, cause of disengagement, role of cognitive and emotional factors to engagement etc. But there is no scientific assessment tool for measuring the same in Bangladesh still