Research On Improving The Measurement Of Student Engagement Of Engineering Student

The student engagement is a concept measuring the time and vigor that students endow in their studying and valid educational practicing activities as well as what the student regard the school's support in the institutional education, whose essence lies in the interaction between the student's behaviors and the school environment. Among the various student engagement measurements, the NSSE (National Survey of Student Engagement) in the U.S. is the most influential one. The NSSE is a survey developed by the Higher Educational Study Centre of Indiana University, American Higher Educational Administrating Centre and the Indiana University, which is widely applied to improve the quality of high school education.So far, the studies on the student engagement measurement mostly concentrate on the macro level without taking in to account the differences between different kinds of high schools. However, different kinds of high schools bear diverse aims and ideas, which have a great impact on the student engagement. After an elaborate survey of the previous domestic and external literatures, it is found that not a single measurement is developed that aims at the engineering student's engagement specifically. Using the original NSSE, this article is based on a survey among all the full-time H.I.T. undergraduate students'engagement on a 100-informat sample size. This article make a perfection of NSSE measurement with reliability analysis, validity analysis, factor analysis and non-structural interviews, aiming at making an adaption to NSSE measurement and making a new specific measurement for engineering high school students'engagement out of it. This article, in the end, makes verification and an application of the adjusted student engagement measurement with the survey of full-time H.I.T. undergraduate students.