Context-specific adaptation of a student engagement measure: a case study of a private university in Bangladesh

Student engagement needs to be context-specific to embrace holistic learning for increasingly diverse students in higher education. This paper presented a case study on the context-specific adaptation of a student engagement measure for a private university in Bangladesh. The adaptation process involved steps such as benchmarking theoretically sound student engagement measures, drawing on the opinions of academic experts, and statistical model fit analysis. A 34-item adapted Measure of Student Engagement in Higher Education (MSEHE) was tested with 953 undergraduate and postgraduate students from two disciplines. This process expanded the original five-component student engagement measure with new insights such as students engaging with integration of ideas from real-life problems. The MSEHE had acceptable internal consistency (Cronbach’s standardised alpha = 0.61 to…