Theoretical and practical aspects of pedagogy and psychology
- Author:
- Galina A. Glotova
- Work direction:
- Глава 6
- Abstract:
- The study of age-related features of academic engagement of university students is relevant, since some students by the time they complete their studies do not sufficiently master the necessary knowledge and competencies. This requires an in-depth study of the phenomenon of academic engagement, its various aspects, among which the age aspect plays an important role. The study used the methods «Emoticons» (Gizhitsky, 2016), «Diagnostics of students' educational motivation» (Badmaeva, 2004), «Scales of academic motivation» (Gordeeva, Sychev, Osin, 2014), «Self-assessment of emotional and personal well-being» (Glotova, Karapetyan, 2020), pilot author's questionnaires «Inclusion in training sessions» and «Academic microdeviations». Students also provided information about their academic performance over the past semesters, age and course of study at the time of the survey. 263 university students aged 16–25 years (202 girls and 61 boys) took part in the study conducted by an online survey. The Mann-Whitney U-test and Spearman correlation analysis were used in data processing. The results showed that the age factor was largely manifested in the behavioral component of engagement in learning in both female and male samples; in the motivational and cognitive components of engagement, gender differences were found, manifested in a more pronounced effect of the age factor in girls; in the female and male samples, the effect of the age factor was not manifested in the resulting component of academic engagement, as well as in value and emotional components.
- Keywords:
- learning, academic performance, university students, academic engagement, age differences
Theoretical and practical aspects of pedagogy and psychology