Student engagement scale: development, reliability and validity

Assessment and Evaluation in Higher Education

Volumn 40, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 587-610

  Gunuc, Selim ^a   Kuzu, Abdullah ^b  

^a YUZUNCU YIL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b ANADOLU UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

campus engagement; class engagement; scale development; student engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84927800651     PISSN: 02602938     EISSN: 1469297X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02602938.2014.938019     Document Type: Article

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