Date Approved
4-3-2023
Graduate Degree Type
Project
Degree Name
Education-Educational Leadership (M.Ed.)
Degree Program
Education Leadership & Counseling
First Advisor
Catherine L. Meyer-Looze
Academic Year
2022/2023
Abstract
Education has mostly stayed the same since the 19th century, yet students and teachers have changed. Teachers once defined student engagement as the time students spent working on the task assigned. However, today there are many definitions for student engagement; which is correct? Researchers have defined student engagement as anything from "time on task" to seven different levels of engagement (Merwin, 1969, as cited in Trowler, 2010, p. 34; Schlechty, 2011). There is no one standard definition for student engagement. The concern is how educators increase engagement. This project suggests that educators move out of the 19th-century classroom setting and replace it with modern, flexible seating in order to increase engagement. Early studies have shown increases in student engagement when implementing flexible seating.
ScholarWorks Citation
Phillips, Jacklyn, "Defining and Increasing Student Engagement Using Flexible Seating in Elementary Classrooms" (2023). Culminating Experience Projects. 240.
https://scholarworks.gvsu.edu/gradprojects/240
