“…Regarding generally low levels of engagement observed for Teacher Interactions, Peer Interactions, and Conflict Interactions, as well as medium-range levels for Task Orientation, these findings are consistent with other studies (Ramirez & Linberg, 2021;Roy-Vallières et al, 2022;Slot & Bleses, 2018;Smidt & Embacher, 2021;Yang et al, 2022). This suggests children may be more engaged towards tasks and activities than people, as social skills take longer to develop during early childhood (Roy-Vallières et al, 2022). Furthermore, engagement has been shown to be highly sensitive to classroom contexts which might provide insight regarding the absence of significant associations between ELLCO Pre-K variables and inCLASS variables.…”