An International Research Collaboration on Student Engagement

Through the research initiative of the International School Psychology Association, an international collaboration team was formed to investigate student engagement in 12 countries (Austria, Canada, China, Cyprus, Estonia, Greece, Malta, Portugal, Romania, South Korea, United Kingdom, and United States). This chapter presents the background of this project and its major findings. Most importantly, this chapter reviews the challenges encountered by the team and how they were solved. A SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis was conducted to reveal the vitality of multicountry research collaboration arising from the platform of international professional associations. The experience of this international project sheds light on the future collaborative endeavors among researchers from countries around the world.