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Conceptualising and measuring student engagement through the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) : a critique Hagel, Pauline, Carr, Rodney and Devlin, Marcia 2011, Conceptualising and measuring student engagement through the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) : a critique, Assessment and evaluation in higher education, vol. 37, no. 4, pp. 475-486. Attached Files Name Description MIMEType Size Downloads Title Conceptualising and measuring student engagement through the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) : a critique Author(s) Hagel, Pauline Carr, Rodney Devlin, Marcia Journal name Assessment and evaluation in higher education Volume number 37 Issue number 4 Start page 475 End page 486 Publisher Routledge Place of publication London, England Publication date 2011 ISSN 0260-2938 1469-297X Keyword(s) student engagement AUSSE NSSE learner engagement time on task post secondary education Summary Student engagement has rapidly developed a central place in the quality agenda of Australian universities since the introduction of the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE). The AUSSE is based on one developed in the USA. The main arguments given for adopting this survey in Australia are that it provides a valid instrument for measuring engagement and that it enables international comparisons. However, the survey instrument and scales have been adopted with little scrutiny of these arguments. This paper examines these arguments by considering different perspectives of engagement, examining the importance of contextual differences and evaluating the AUSSE engagement scales in the light of both. The paper concludes that the AUSSE results should be used by universities and policy-makers with caution. Language eng Field of Research 130103 Higher Education Socio Economic Objective 930101 Learner and Learning Achievement HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal Copyright notice ©2011, Taylor & Francis Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30042856 Document type: Journal Article Collections: Faculty of Business and Law Deakin Graduate School of Business School of Management and Marketing Higher Education Research Group Related Links Link Description Connect to published version (restricted access) Go to link with your DU access privileges     Unless expressly stated otherwise, the copyright for items in DRO is owned by the author, with all rights reserved. Versions Version Filter Type Fri, 02 Mar 2012, 13:00:45 EST Tue, 06 Mar 2012, 08:33:21 EST Tue, 06 Mar 2012, 08:36:21 EST Mon, 21 May 2012, 14:01:17 EST Mon, 21 May 2012, 14:06:08 EST Wed, 06 Jun 2012, 13:08:43 EST Wed, 06 Jun 2012, 13:21:06 EST Mon, 17 Jun 2013, 17:29:55 EST Fri, 13 Jun 2014, 13:09:00 EST Filtered Full Citation counts:   Cited 0 times in TR Web of Science Search Google Scholar Access Statistics: 104 Abstract Views, 4 File Downloads  -  Detailed Statistics Created: Fri, 02 Mar 2012, 13:00:30 EST by Katrina Fleming

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