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Part I Commentary: So What Is Student Engagement Anyway?

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This chapter, by the esteemed motivation scholar Jacque Eccles and Ming-Te Wang, provides a commentary on the five chapters in Part I. The authors offered additional critique of the issues raised by authors in this part, as well as their perspectives on future directions for the engagement construct. In addition, Eccles and Wang described links between the theories of engagement and the Expectancy-Value Theoretical Model of Achievement-Related Behavior espoused by Eccles.

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  1. Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Jacquelynne Eccles & Ming-Te Wang

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  1. Jacquelynne Eccles
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Correspondence to Jacquelynne Eccles .

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  1. Dept. Educational Psychology, University of Minnesota, E. River Road 56, Minneapolis, 55455, Minnesota, USA

    Sandra L. Christenson

  2. Dept. Educational Psychology &, Instructional Technology, University of Georgia, Aderhold Hall 325N, Athens, 30602, Georgia, USA

    Amy L. Reschly

  3. Educational Research, New Zealand Council for, Wellington, New Zealand

    Cathy Wylie

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Eccles, J., Wang, MT. (2012). Part I Commentary: So What Is Student Engagement Anyway?. In: Christenson, S., Reschly, A., Wylie, C. (eds) Handbook of Research on Student Engagement. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-2018-7_6

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