STUDENT SCHOOL ENGAGEMENT

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Course and Year ______________________________________________ Sex ______ Age___________

This questionnaire concerns your experiences as a student in this school. Please be honest in your
response. Your identity and your answers will be kept strictly confidential. The information will be used
for research purposes only and will not be available for any other reasons.

Every item is to be answered by putting a circle around the number in the scale that corresponds to your
honest response. If you wish to change your response, put an X over your previous answer and encircle
the number indicating your new answer. Make sure you do not leave any item unanswered.

How often are the following statements of Always Almost Sometimes Rarely Never
your school engagement true to you? Always

1. I am very interested in listening. 5 4 3 2 1

2. I think what we are learning in school 5 4 3 2 1

is interesting.
3. I like what I am learning in school. 5 4 3 2 1

4. I enjoy learning new things in class. 5 4 3 2 1

5. I think learning is boring. 5 4 3 2 1

6. I like my school. 5 4 3 2 1

7. I am proud to be at this school. 5 4 3 2 1

8. Most mornings, I look forward to going 5 4 3 2 1

to school.
9. I am happy to be at this school. 5 4 3 2 1

10. I try hard to do well in school. 5 4 3 2 1

11. In class, I work hard as I can. 5 4 3 2 1

12. When I’m in class, I participate in class 5 4 3 2 1

activities.
13. I pay attention in class. 5 4 3 2 1

14. When I’m in class, I just act like I’m 5 4 3 2 1

working.
15. In school, I do just enough to get by. 5 4 3 2 1

16. When I’m in class, my mind wanders. 5 4 3 2 1

17. If I have trouble understanding a

problem, I go over it again until I
understand it. 5 4 3 2 1

18. When I run into a difficult homework

problem, I keep working at it until I
think I’ve solved it. 5 4 3 2 1

19. I am an active participant of school

activities such as sport day and school
outreach. 5 4 3 2 1

20. I volunteer to help school activities 5 4 3 2 1

such as sport day and school outreach.
21. I take an active role in extra-curricular 5 4 3 2 1
activities in my school.
22. When I study, I try to understand the
material better by relating it to things I
already know. 5 4 3 2 1

23. When I study, I figure out how the

information might be useful in the real
world. 5 4 3 2 1

24. When learning new information, I try 5 4 3 2 1

to put the ideas in my own words.
25. When I study, I try to connect what I 5 4 3 2 1
am learning with my own experiences.
26. I make up my own examples to help
me understand the important
concepts I learn from school. 5 4 3 2 1

27. I often try to associate the lessons in

school with what I learnt in other
classes about the same or similar 5 4 3 2 1
things.
 28. I try to see the similarities and
differences between things I am
learning for school and things I already 5 4 3 2 1
know.
29. I try to understand how the things I
learn in school fit together with each
other. 5 4 3 2 1

30. I try to match what I already know with 5 4 3 2 1

things I am trying to learn for school.
31. I try to think through topics and decide
what I’m supposed to learn from them,
rather than studying topics by just 5 4 3 2 1
reading them over.
32. When studying, I try to combine
different pieces of information from
course material in new ways. 5 4 3 2 1

33. When learning things for school, I try

to see how they fit together with other
things I already know. 5 4 3 2 1

Instruction:
The school engagement construct has three dimensions, namely AFFECTIVE, BEHAVIORAL,
AND COGNITIVE. Put together all related items under each dimension.