COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF STUDENT ENGAGEMENT AMONG SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS WITH RESPECT TO SELECTED DEMOGRAPHIC VARIABLES

Abstract

Student engagement corresponds to the purposeful commitment by the students in teaching-learning
process. In other words, Student engagement pertains to the degree to which learners engaged themselves
in formal education process for learning and refers to commitment of time, energy, and efforts by students
regarding their learning tasks which include activities related to learning. There are three dimensions of
student engagement i.e. emotional engagement, behavioral engagement and cognitive engagement. The
main motive of this study was to compare the types of student engagement among senior secondary
school students with respect to the selected demographic variables i.e. gender, type of school and stream
of study. The sample was taken from three districts of Punjab i.e. Amritsar, Ludhiana and Jalandhar
corresponding to Majha, Malwa and Doaba regions of Punjab respectively. The sample size taken for this
study was 449 senior secondary school students from meritorious, government and private schools from
each district. The results revealed that male students have high student engagement in all the dimensions
than females. There was no significant difference among students of meritorious, government and private
schools in behavioral engagement. But students of meritorious schools have more emotional engagement
in comparison to students of government and private school and students of meritorious school were
more cognitively engaged in comparison to students of government and private school. When it comes of
stream of study, there was no significant difference in terms of emotional engagement and cognitive
engagement. But in case of behavioral engagement, it was found that the students belong to arts stream
have more behavioral engagement than commerce and science stream.