Skills and Dispositions, Executive Summary

Summarizes our research on the definition, measurement, and movement of student motivation, engagement, and 21st-century skills.

Brief executive summary of YDEKC’s series on student motivation, engagement, and 21st-century skills. The  first part of series, published in 2012 (revised in 2014) proposed a working  definition  of motivation and engagement,  and  suggested  possible approaches to  measurement. The second part, released in 2014, describes a number of strategies for building motivation and engagement in schools and in out-of-school-time settings.