School engagement in three Senegalese secondary schools

2014

The purpose of the research was to examine how is the construct and the prediction of school engagement and affective, cognitive and behavior engagement subdimensions in Senegalese secondary school. Another matter of interest was to find out what kind of the support experiences students get from teachers, family and peers. The cross-sectional data of research consisted of Senegalese junior high school students (N＝571, age10 – 20 years) from three schools located in Fatick province, Senegal. Participants answered self - report questionnaires in May 2013. The data was analyzed with factor analysis, reliability analysis with Cronbach alpha, t-test and One-way analysis of Variance (ANOVA) were …