1st Edition

Task Engagement Across Disciplines Research and Practical Strategies to Increase Student Achievement

Edited By Joy Egbert, Priya Panday-Shukla Copyright 2024
260 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

260 Pages 16 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

Using an evidence-based model developed by Egbert and colleagues, editors Joy Egbert and Priya Panday-Shukla provide a comprehensive overview of task engagement for teachers and researchers. Research has positioned task engagement as central to student learning, and Egbert and Panday-Shukla now collate this research into a resource that teachers can utilize. The chapters address how task... Read more

List of Illustrations

Contributors

Preface

Acknowledgements

Part 1: Introduction to Task Engagement

1. Introduction to Task Engagement across the Disciplines

Joy Egbert

Part 2: Task Engagement Facilitators

2. Exploring Interest in Task Engagement

Priya Panday-Shukla and Joy Egbert

3. Authenticity as a Facilitator of Task Engagement

Haixia He and Intissar Ahmed Omar Yahia

4. Facilitating Task Engagement through Social Interaction

Seyed Abdollah Shahrokni

5. Using Learning Support to Provide Opportunities for Task Engagement

Keun Huh and Joy Egbert

6. The Role of Challenge-Skills Balance in Task Engagement

Mehdi Mirlohi and David Herman

 7. Autonomy-Structure Balance in Facilitating Task Engagement

Reima Abobaker and Irene Silas

Part 3: Task Engagement Indicators

8. Understanding Behavioral Indicators of Task Engagement

Tingting Wang and Carolyn FitzGerald

 9. Identifying Cognitive Indicators of Task Engagement

Joy Egbert and Jo Ann Arinder

10. Emotional Indicators of Task Engagement

Ali Asiri and Dini Arini

11. Linking Agentic Indicators to Task Engagement

Eugenie Mainake and Hadir Alderaan

12. Task Engagement as Viewed through Social Indicators

Jennifer Fredricks

Part 4: Measures, Designs, and Contexts for Task Engagement 

13. Measures and Instruments

Jennifer Fredricks

14. Designing for Task Engagement

Priya Panday-Shukla

15. Task Engagement in Context

Amy L. Reschly and Elyse M. Farnsworth

Part 5: Task Engagement Resources

16. Task Engagement Resources: Facilitators

Estephanie S. López Contreras and Zixing Li

17. Task Engagement Resources: Indicators

Zixing Li and Estephanie S. López Contreras

Biography

Joy Egbert is Regents Professor of Education Technology and English Language Learners at Washington State University, USA.

Priya Panday-Shukla is currently finishing her doctoral coursework in the Language, Literacy, and Technology program at Washington State University, USA.