Student engagements: impacts on student achievements in secondary school sciences

Abstract

Student engagement (SE) is widely recognized as a crucial factor significantly influencing student achievement. Numerous studies have focused extensively on the relationship between student engagement and student achievement in educational settings.1,2 Understanding this relationship can help inform effective teaching and learning practices that will maximize student success. It is also crucial that teachers are aware of some of the reasons as to why students are not learning science in secondary schools, despite enormous number of reforms had been done to the education in Samoa.