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      Student engagement and wellbeing over time at a higher education institution

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          Student engagement is an important factor for learning outcomes in higher education. Engagement with learning at campus-based higher education institutions is difficult to quantify due to the variety of forms that engagement might take (e.g. lecture attendance, self-study, usage of online/digital systems). Meanwhile, there are increasing concerns about student wellbeing within higher education, but the relationship between engagement and wellbeing is not well understood. Here we analyse results from a longitudinal survey of undergraduate students at a campus-based university in the UK, aiming to understand how engagement and wellbeing vary dynamically during an academic term. The survey included multiple dimensions of student engagement and wellbeing, with a deliberate focus on self-report measures to capture students’ subjective experience. The results show a wide range of engagement with different systems and study activities, giving a broad view of student learning behaviour over time. Engagement and wellbeing vary during the term, with clear behavioural changes caused by assessments. Results indicate a positive interaction between engagement and happiness, with an unexpected negative relationship between engagement and academic outcomes. This study provides important insights into subjective aspects of the student experience and provides a contrast to the increasing focus on analysing educational processes using digital records.

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                Journal
                PLoS One
                PLoS ONE
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                plosone
                PLoS ONE
                Public Library of Science (San Francisco, CA USA )
                1932-6203
                27 November 2019
                2019
                : 14
                : 11
                : e0225770
                Affiliations
                [1 ] Computer Science, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
                [2 ] School of Psychology, University of Exeter, Exeter, United Kingdom
                University of Reading, UNITED KINGDOM
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                Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.

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                http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6172-3988
                Article
                PONE-D-19-11527
                10.1371/journal.pone.0225770
                6881016
                31774878
                a7cc0906-7e57-467c-ac10-8a24c1bca656
                © 2019 Boulton et al

                This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.

                History
                : 23 April 2019
                : 12 November 2019
                Page count
                Figures: 6, Tables: 4, Pages: 20
                Funding
                This research was supported by the Effective Learning Analytics project at the University of Exeter. The funder had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
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