Engaging Students in Learning through Teacher Research

Recent decades have seen extensive research on student engagement. According to Sinatra et al. (2015: 2), student engagement has been ‘one of the hottest research topics in the field of educational psychology’. This is perhaps because student engagement is ‘often hailed as the core of the education enterprise’ (Dörnyei, 2018). Reyes et al. (2012) assert that student engagement is vital for academic achievement. Indeed, a sound body of literature has established robust relationships between student engagement and desirable educational outcomes such as social engagement, academic achievement, interest, student persistence and satisfaction (Chickering & Gamson, 1987; Christenson et al., 2012; Finn