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Changes in teacher-student relationships.

Hunter Gehlbach¹, Maureen E Brinkworth, Anna D Harris

¹Harvard University, MA, USA. hunter_gehlbach@harvard.edu

The British Journal of Educational Psychology

|October 3, 2012

Summary

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Teacher-student relationships significantly change throughout the school year, impacting student motivation and academic success. Early social perspective-taking and perceived similarity predict these crucial relationship dynamics.

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Area of Science:

Educational Psychology
Developmental Psychology
Sociology of Education

Background:

Teacher-student relationships are central to the educational experience.
Key questions about the dynamics and influencing factors of these relationships remain unexplored.

Purpose of the Study:

To determine the extent of changes in teacher-student relationships from the start to the end of a school year.
To investigate the association between relationship changes and student academic/motivational outcomes.
To identify upstream factors linked to improvements or declines in teacher-student relationships.

Main Methods:

A novel dual-perspective approach was used to assess teacher-student relationships.
Multi-level models analyzed changes in relationships and their association with student grades, homework completion, self-efficacy, and effort.
The study examined the role of students' perspective-taking accuracy and perceived similarity to teachers.

Main Results:

Significant changes in teacher-student relationships were observed over the school year.
These relationship shifts were associated with changes in key student outcomes.
Improvements in students' social perspective-taking accuracy and perceived similarity correlated with relationship changes.

Conclusions:

Teacher-student relationships are malleable and significantly influence student achievement and motivation.
Further research, including field experiments, is needed to develop strategies for enhancing these critical relationships.