Student Engagement and Motivation
16 observed through students’ flexible problem solving, willingness to comprehend
complex ideas by implementing meta-cognitive strategy such as regulating attention, persistence, relating new information to existing knowledge, and
actively monitoring comprehension, and self-regulation Fredricks, Blumenfeld, and Paris, 2004; Fredricks and McColskey, 2012.
There are various instruments that have been developed to measure student engagement with specific aims of measurement or emphasize on particular type of
engagement, such as Engagement vs. Disaffection with Learning—Student Report and Identification with School Questionnaire ISQ or instruments which cover all
constructs of engagement such as School Engagement Measure SEM and School Engagement Instrument Fredricks and McColskey, 2012. The data are collected
through various methods such as student and teacher report, observation, interview, questionnaire, experience sampling, and focus case studies Chapman,
2003; Fredricks, and McColskey, 2012. One instrument that is broadly used and has served numerous schools and universities is NSSE National Survey of
Student Engagement which survey is used to find data that educational institution may use to improve its students and institutional performances, to discover and to
document effective educational practice, and to encourage the educational institutions to report their performance publicly Kuh, 2009.
Most of the instrument to measure student engagement is built for school- wide engagement. Barkley 2010:5, however, mentioned that student engagement
is very possible to be observed and measured in classroom wide of which result is used to create the best learning environment to improve the students’ performance
in the subject learned. Moreover, student engagement is best analyzed within a PLAGIAT MERUPAKAN TINDAKAN TIDAK TERPUJI
17 context. For this reason, the instruments to measure and analyze student
engagement are often developed based on the specific information on learning, school, or family context Christenson, Reschly, and Wylie, 2012.