Abstract
The purpose of this exploratory study was to examine the associations between the student-teacher relationship and outcomes for African American students who were behaviorally at-risk for referral to special education. Students were identified by their teachers as having behavior problems. Participants were 44 students and 25 teachers from two suburban and three urban elementary schools in a mid-western state. A multi-rater, multi-method approach was used. As teacher-reports of student-teacher relationship quality increased, there were also increases in positive social, behavioral, and engagement outcomes for students. Similarly, as student-reports of student-teacher relationship quality increased, there were increases in positive behavioral, engagement, and academic outcomes. Additional analyses of dyadic relationship patterns showed that as the relationship pattern improved (moving from negative concordance to discordance to positive concordance), there were increases in positive social, behavioral, and engagement outcomes for students. Implications for school practice are discussed.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 83-109 |
Number of pages | 27 |
Journal | Journal of school psychology |
Volume | 45 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Feb 2007 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:This research was supported, in part, by a grant from the Minnesota Department of Education to the second author, PO 42580.
Copyright:
Copyright 2006 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
Keywords
- At-risk students
- Student-teacher relationships