A influência da participação em atividades extraclasse e engajamento escolar no desempenho acadêmico de alunos do Colégio Militar de Salvador

Abstract

The present study, concerning the relationship between the antecedent factors and results of school engagement, is focused on a school located in Salvador, Bahia. The general objective is to analyse how the participation in extracurricular activities by students from the 8 th to the 11th grade relates to engagement levels reported through EAE-4D (BR) scale and how the engagement contributes to the academic results of such students. Therefore, as specific objectives, the study collected data regarding the student’s participation in such activities, registered, in the first and second learning periods, the level of engagement using the related scale to stablish the correlations between contextual factors and the four dimensions of engagement and, further, the correlation between the total engagement score and the academic achievement. The research collect data from 329 students, 119 of whom participated in extracurricular activities and 210 who were Only enrolled in regular classes in the year of 2021. Through the descriptive statistics and multilinear variate regression analysis, it became evident that the participation in extracurricular activities and the student engagement, particularly its behavioral dimension, could explain in 53,4% their academic achievement.