Measuring Student Engagement with Assessment Tasks in Higher Education
Keywords:
Student engagement, Engaging Assessment, Assessment Tasks, Authentic AssessmentAbstract
Modern assessment practices emphasize student learning, skill development, and mastery, but the benefits of assessment tasks depend on effective student engagement, an area that remains underexplored in the literature. This review examines research on student engagement with a focus on engagement assessment tasks in higher education and identifies a significant gap in studies that focus on the subject. While student engagement is widely studied as a measure of educational quality and for accountability purposes, limited research has explored how students interact with assessment tasks, and how these tasks influence engagement and learning outcomes. This review evaluates various measurement approaches, including self-report surveys and virtual learning environment data, highlighting the challenges of capturing the multidimensional nature of engagement. Given these limitations, this review advocates for further empirical research using comprehensive mixed-methods approaches to better understand and enhance student engagement with authentic assessment tasks, ultimately improving learning outcomes.
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