The phrase "disengaged students" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to students who are not actively participating or engaging in their studies or in the classroom. Example: The increasing number of disengaged students in the classroom is a cause for concern among teachers and school administrators.
Poor attendance and disengaged students have been such a problem that Agora dismissed 600 students last year for nonattendance, 149 of them just before state tests were administered, according to school board minutes.
The school has cracked down on disengaged students, according to a statement by its director, Sharon Williams, who said a policy adopted last December mandates attendance at online classes for those students who do not log in, repeatedly fail to complete lessons or are failing three courses.
What about disengaged students then, or those seeking an alternative at levels 1 and 2? Certainly, in terms of priority markets, the most urgent issue in 14-19 reform is the growing number of young people leaving without qualifications or marketable skills of any type.
As a seventh-grader in California, Patty writes, her Latin classes were both abstruse and laughably easy: boring, rote recitations of declensions performed by rowdy, disengaged students, the words presented in such a way as to suggest that they had nothing to do with anything anyone ever actually said to one another.
This is useful for predictive modeling where disengaged students can be targeted to ensure that dropout rates do not increase.
Cothran and Ennis (2000) report that "the number of disengaged students may exceed two thirds of the high school population" (p. 106).
She had been a disengaged student, by her own account, mainly focussed on her music.
Likewise, whether dealing with an egotistic colleague or an insecure or disengaged student, the ability to find common ground and laugh together is the closest thing that we in academia have to a magic bullet.
Conversations, including brief verbal encounters, can make the difference in the life of a senior citizen, a crying child, a disengaged student or a fellow traveler.
Not just the traditional philanthropists with millions of dollars, but everyday people -- even notoriously apathetic and disengaged college students.
St Richard Gwyn Catholic High School, Wales: install a new health and fitness suite to connect disengaged and unfit students with the benefits of exercise.
