The Predictive Role of Hope on the Online Student Engagement of Filipino Pre-Service Teachers

To promote positive education in the Philippines and contribute to the understanding of online learning, this study aimed to investigate the predictive influence of dispositional hope on the online student engagement of Filipino pre-service teachers at a university in northern Luzon. The participants of this study comprised 279 Filipino pre-service teachers. Two scales were used: The Online Student Engagement Scale and the Adult Hope Scale. Moreover, for the main analysis, simple regression was used. Based on the overall statistical results of all the regression analyses conducted, dispositional hope consistently emerged as a positive predictor of the four domains of online student engagement: skills engagement, emotional engagement, participation engagement, and performance engagement. Consequently, this may indicate that hopeful pre-service teachers are more likely to be actively engaged in their online learning. This research contributes further to the understanding of how dispositional hope influences student engagement, showing that its positive effects apply to both face-to-face and online learning contexts.