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Engagement for learning physics: a qualitative study of students' perspective

Physics is one of the subjects that includes content of different levels of abstraction and students experience learning activities in physics as interesting but at the same time difficult. Research has shown that engagement in learning activities is associated with many positive outcomes such as school achievement and motivation. According to contextual model of student engagement (Lam, Wong, Yang, & Liu, 2012) contextual determinants such as relationships with teachers, parents and students, and individual determinants such as student motivational beliefs significantly contribute to school engagement. Therefore, the aim of this study was to examine how well students can recognize different determinants of engagement in learning physics. Four focus group interviews were conducted with 8th-grade students from two elementary schools. Thematic analysis was performed. The results of this research have shown that students are well aware of individual and contextual determinants of engagement in learning physics and that the different aspects of engagement are important for more successful and less successful students. It is expected that the findings from research can be used in further developing guidelines for more effective teaching of elementary school physics.

engagement, physics education ; motivation

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