Other Public Sector Research Funding

Project Title: Schooling Issues Digest: Student Motivation and Engagement

Chief Investigator(s): Associate Professor Erica Frydenberg, Dr Mary Ainley and Dr Valerie Russell.

Funded by: Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST)

Project Summary: DEST commissioned the University to complie a brief report titled ‘Schooling Issues Digests: Student Motivation and Engagement’ which summarised existing research material on the topic of student motivation and engagement. The digest provides a status reports on the results of recent international and national research on the topic of student motivation and engagement, in a non-technical, easy to read format, which bought together and demystified complicated research and statistical data.

The Schooling Issues Digest is available from the DEST website. Click here.