Can We Distinguish Student Engagement Between Universities? Evidence From the United Kingdom Engagement Survey

• In Event: Marriott Roundtable Session 37
  In Roundtable Session: Student Engagement and Involvement

Abstract

Policy changes in the Higher Education landscape have given way to increased interest in the way students perceive engagement in UK higher education. The paper aims to see if we can reliably distinguish between institutions and disciplines, and what key student and institutional variables are a predictor of engagement of undergraduate students. Using data from two waves of the United Kingdom Engagement Survey (UKES 2014 and 2015), a national survey of undergraduate student engagement, we constructed multilevel models for different aspects of student engagement. The results show that the vast majority of the variance of the models is at the student level, indicating that demographic characteristics seem to contribute most to differential aspects of engagement.

Authors

• Christian Bokhove, University of Southampton

• Daniel R. Muijs, University of Southampton