Student Engagement and Learning Outcomes: An Empirical Study Applying a Four-Dimensional Framework

• In Event: Measuring Student Experiences and Developing Frameworks to Guide Practice

Abstract

This study applies Reeve's four-dimensional student engagement framework to a medical education context to elucidate the relationship between behavioral, affective, cognitive, and agentic engagement and learning outcomes. We used the China Medical Student Survey to investigate student engagement, and combined it with the Clinical Medicine Proficiency Test for Medical Schools results as a standardized measurement of learning outcomes. We performed multivariate regression analyses to investigate the effectiveness of different types of student engagement, and evaluated the moderating roles of gender and the National College Entrance Examination (NCEE). We observed that emotional and cognitive engagement could effectively contribute to learning outcomes, while behavioral and agentic engagement negatively affected learning outcomes. Besides, the NCEE played a positive moderating role.

Authors

• Xiaoming Xu, University of Groningen
  Presenting Author

• Zehua Shi, Peking University
  Non-Presenting Author

• Nico A. Bos, University of Groningen
  Non-Presenting Author

• Hongbin Wu, Peking University
  Non-Presenting Author