Exploring student engagement practices at a South African university : student engagement as reliable predictor of academic performance

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dc.contributor.authorSchreiber, Birgit
dc.contributor.authorYu, Derek
dc.date.accessioned2018-05-26T08:31:45Z
dc.date.available2018-05-26T08:31:45Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractStudent engagement is one avenue to explore how the experiences within and beyond the classroom impact student persistence behaviours. This article contributes to the sparse research in South Africa on the correlates of student engagement with academic performance at a Historically Disadvantaged University. The results suggest that engagement practices at this university differ across race and gender and that given the South African history we are able to generalise onto the South African higher education system. Influences on persistence and academic success are complex and require a comprehensive approach which embraces the entire context into which student persistence behaviours are embedded. Student engagement patterns are reliable predictors of academic performance and the trends across race and gender suggest that engagement and academic performance remain differentiated along race and gender.en_US
dc.description.accreditationDHET
dc.identifier.citationSchreiber, B. & Yu, D. (2016). Exploring student engagement practices at a South African university : student engagement as reliable predictor of academic performance. South African Journal of Higher Education, 30(5): 157 - 175en_US
dc.identifier.issn1011-3487
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.20853/30-5-593
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10566/3736
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.privacy.showsubmitterFALSE
dc.publisherHigher Education South Africa (HESA)en_US
dc.rightsThis is the author-version of the article published online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.20853/30-5-593
dc.status.ispeerreviewedTRUE
dc.subjectStudent engagementen_US
dc.subjectRetentionen_US
dc.subjectPersistenceen_US
dc.subjectAcademic performanceen_US
dc.subjectRaceen_US
dc.subjectGenderen_US
dc.subjectHigher educationen_US
dc.subjectStudent successen_US
dc.titleExploring student engagement practices at a South African university : student engagement as reliable predictor of academic performanceen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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