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Academic Coaching, Student Engagement, And Instructor Best Practices, Jainie Denisse Miranda Martinez
Academic Coaching, Student Engagement, And Instructor Best Practices, Jainie Denisse Miranda Martinez
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Academic coaching has demonstrated positive relationships with college students' academic engagement and performance. A university campus in Puerto Rico implemented academic coaching for at-risk students, but the program has not been studied for its impact on student engagement. Guided by self-regulation theory and constructivism, this quasi-experimental study examined differences in engagement and identification of best teaching behaviors between students who experienced academic coaching (n = 115) and those who did not (n = 55). Students completed the Classroom Survey of Student Engagement (CLASSE) before and after the 4-week instructional unit and the Instructor Behavior Checklist (IBC) after the instructional unit. …