What Influences Student Situational Engagement in Smart Classrooms? Perception of Learning Environment and Students' Motivation

• In Event: Perception, Motivation, and Self-Regulated Learning

Abstract

Through experience sampling data collection with 105 students in the smart classroom environment, this study investigated the relationship among situational engagement, motivation, and perception of the learning environment. Hierarchical linear modeling showed that students’ perception and situational engagement fluctuated over time and across smart classroom contexts. The results showed that environmental perception and students’ motivation factors have different effects on situational engagement. Specifically, perceptions of social support, autonomous motivation, and controlled motivation have a significant impact on behavior engagement; perceptions of social support, perceptions of technology support, autonomous motivation, and controlled motivation have a significant impact on shallow cognitive engagement; perceptions of teacher support, perceptions of social support, self-efficacy, autonomous motivation significantly predict deep cognitive engagement and emotional engagement.

Authors

• Guoqing Lu, Central China Normal University

• Kui Xie, The Ohio State University

• Lei Mei, Central China Normal University

• Jiaojiao Wang, Central China Normal University

• Qingtang Liu, Central China Normal University