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Summary: National University of Singapore
MW5200 MSC SCIENCE COMMUNICATION PROJECT
Project Report
Strengthening student engagement in the classroom.
Course: Msc (Science Communication)
Faculty of Science
National University of Singapore
Name: Ganeshini D/O Sri kanthan
Student ID: A0075383Y
Project Supervisor: A/P Helmer Aslaksen
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ABSTRACT
The Ministry of Education (MOE) recognizes the importance of student engagement in the
classroom. However, keeping students engaged in the classroom is a challenge for many
educators these days. Student engagement is a contested concept, theorized in a variety of
different ways within academic literature. This projects aims to define and understand the
concept of student engagement. The purpose of this project was also to find out the usage of
engagement based approaches in the classroom. The survey results in this project indicate that
teachers do use these approaches in the classroom but not frequently enough. Usage of
engagement based approaches in the classroom can be increased with changes in attitudes of
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