Charting the Path from Engagement to Achievement:

A Report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement.

The most recent results from the annual High School Survey of Student Engagement (HSSSE) closely resemble past findings, reflecting bored students who say they are not connected to their school.

“Charting the Path from Engagement to Achievement: A Report on the 2009 High School Survey of Student Engagement” presents the latest numbers from the annual survey conducted by the Indiana University Center for Evaluation and Education Policy (CEEP).

Here are some of the findings:

• Only two percent of students said they’d never been bored in school.
• Just 41 percent of the students in the 2009 survey responded that they went to school because of what they learn in classes.
• Only 23 percent said they went because of their teachers.
• Around a third said they went because they enjoy being in school.
• Students who have thought about dropping out continue to cite a lack of engagement with the school as a reason: 50 percent said they considered dropping out because they didn’t like the school (51 percent cited this in the 2008 survey); 39 percent said they considered it because they didn’t like the teachers (40 percent in 2008); 42 percent said they thought of dropping out because they didn’t see the value in the work they were asked to do (45 percent in 2008).

Click HERE to see the report in PDF format.

Click HERE to see the media release issued by Indiana University about the report.