Student engagement, student wellness, and sense of belonging: Race and gender differences
- WCU Author/Contributor (non-WCU co-authors, if there are any, appear on document)
- Destini Brianna Tamara Brown (Creator)
- Institution
- Western Carolina University (WCU )
- Web Site: http://library.wcu.edu/
- Advisor
- Lori Unruh
Abstract: Student engagement operates as a mediator between supportive school environments and academic achievement. The developing interest in student engagement and its relation to students’ feelings of congruences with their academic success and wellbeing has become a focal point to enhance learning and teaching. Understanding the various factors that determine students’ degrees of engagement is pivotal in order to address the best practices to increase academic achievement. Student factors related to academic engagement have been identified as key components that are related to the effectiveness of student academic engagement. In addition to these factors, there are individual student variables that also have an influence on academic engagement. Individual students' variables such as gender, ethnicity and student wellness have been found to have an impact on their academic engagement. The association between teacher support and student engagement is possibly different for boys and girls. Females indicate more engagement than boys due to the types of activities provided and content being more feminine. In addition, research has found that minority students are at times alienated from the classroom due to the differences between patterns of home and school interaction, impacting their ability to be engaged and perform well academically. Lastly, research has found that integrating mental health supports and services in the school setting is an effective delivery system for student wellbeing. The focus of this research is to examine one aspect of student wellness which is sense of belonging and how it differs based on gender and ethnicity. In addition, this research will look at how this area of sense of belonging is related to other areas of student well-being.
Student engagement, student wellness, and sense of belonging: Race and gender differences
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Created on 4/1/2024
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Additional Information
- Publication
- Thesis
- Language: English
- Date: 2024
- Subjects
- Academic achievement
- Students
- Well-being
- Belonging (Social psychology)
- Inclusive education