RT Journal Article
T1 The association between academic engagement and achievement in health sciences students
A1 Casuso Holgado, María Jesús
A1 Cuesta-Vargas, Antonio
A1 Moreno-Morales, Noelia
A1 Labajos-Manzanares, María Teresa
A1 Barón-López, Francisco Javier
A1 Vega-Cuesta, Manuel
K1 Ciencias de la Salud - Estudio y enseñanza
AB Background: Educational institutions play an important role in encouraging student engagement, being necessary to know how engaged are students at university and if this factor is involved in student success point and followed.To explore the association between academic engagement and achievement.Methods: Cross-sectional study. The sample consisted of 304 students of Health Sciences. They were asked to fill out an on-line questionnaire. Academic achievements were calculated using three types of measurement.Results: Positive correlations were found in all cases. Grade point average was the academic rate most strongly associated with engagement dimensions and this association is different for male and female students. The independent variables could explain between 18.9 and 23.9% of the variance (p < 0.05) in the population of university students being analyzed.Conclusions: Engagement has been shown to be one of the many factors, which are positively involved, in the academic achievements of college students.
PB BMC Springer Nature
YR 2013
FD 2013-02-27
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37895
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/37895
LA eng
NO Casuso-Holgado MJ, Cuesta-Vargas AI, Moreno-Morales N, Labajos-Manzanares MT, Barón-López FJ, Vega-Cuesta M. The association between academic engagement and achievement in health sciences students. BMC Med Educ. 2013 Feb 27;13:33. doi: 10.1186/1472-6920-13-33. PMID: 23446005; PMCID: PMC3599896.
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