Project Engage: Developing ENGAGE for Adult Interactions and Children’s Engagement

The Project Engage research team is developing ENGAGE, a brief, technology-enhanced, cloud-based observational tool, that will help educators, coaches, administrators, and researchers simultaneously measure and evaluate adult interaction practices (known to increase engagement) and child active engagement for every child in every type of education setting.

Key Findings and Resources to Date

Interaction practice elements provide targeted, actionable behaviors for educators to use to increase children’s active engagement, especially those with developmental delays and disabilities.

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Specifying implementer and organizational features within a causal pathway contributed to predicting variations in children’s active engagement – *a key aspect of this work is the definition and measurement of active engagement.*

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Funding

This work is possible through funding from the National Center for Special Education Research within the Institute of Education Sciences, Award #R324A170032. The work presented does not necessarily reflect the views of our funders and any errors or omissions are our own.