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, doi: 10.1080/02602938.2010.545870.
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Conceptualising and measuring student engagement through the Australasian Survey of Student Engagement (AUSSE) : a critique
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.
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