Student engagement as a function of environmental complexity in high school classrooms

Learning and Instruction

Volumn 43, Issue , 2016, Pages 52-60

  Shernoff, David J ^a   Kelly, Sean ^b   Tonks, Stephen M ^c   Anderson, Brett ^c   Cavanagh, Robert F ^d   Sinha, Suparna ^a   Abdi, Beheshteh ^c  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Classrooms; Experience sampling method; High school; Learning environments; Student engagement

Indexed keywords

EID: 84953431869     PISSN: 09594752     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.learninstruc.2015.12.003     Document Type: Article

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