Enhancing engagement through a community school approach as the key to increase academic achievement

An important, but underexplored, determinant to successful academic trajectories is the engagement of pupils in scholastic activities. A lack of school engagement is considered to be an early indicator of a problematic educational career and eventual school dropout. This article examines the added value of a specific community school based learning environment - so called community schools - in secondary education as a means to increase pupils' school engagement and ultimately, their educational achievement. The paper concludes by discussing implications of the findings for research.

Publication year:2014

Keywords:Educational achievement, engagement, community school