Teacher-Student Relationship and Academic Adaptation in College Freshmen: Disentangling the Between-Person Effects and Within-Person Effects

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Bin Li

Developing a good relationship with teachers and adapting to the new academic environment are important developmental issues for college freshmen. Based on three-wave longitudinal data collected at the 2nd (T1), 4th (T2), and 8th (T3) months upon entry to college, this study examined the dynamic associations between teacher-student relationship (TSR) and academic adaptation among 1,578 Chinese college freshmen. Results of cross-lagged panel model found a reciprocal association between TSR and academic adaptation across time points. Results of random-intercept, cross-lagged panel model suggested that after controlling for the significant association between TSR and academic adaptation at the between-person level, the within-person changes in TSR at T2 predicted corresponding changes in academic adaptation at T3. In conclusion, the association between TSR and academic adaptation is mainly due to the stable, trait-like difference between individuals and partly due to state-like variations within individuals. Practically, enhancing TSR seems a promising avenue to facilitate academic adaptation among college freshmen.

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 0690-0697
Author(s):  
Marlons Lino da Cruz ◽  
Antonio Marcos de Oliveira Siqueira

RESUMO. A preocupação básica deste estudo é refletir sobre o papel do supervisor escolar diante da relação professor/aluno, relação esta que se faz imprescindível para que o processo educativo aconteça. Este artigo tem como objetivo analisar a importância de um bom relacionamento entre professores e alunos no processo de construção do conhecimento. Realizou-se uma pesquisa bibliográfica considerando as contribuições de diversos autores, procurando enfatizar a importância do bom convívio entre educando e educadores, bem como a necessidade do pedagogo cuidar para que a dimensão interpessoal entre ensinantes e aprendentes não interfira de modo negativo no processo ensino-aprendizagem. Concluiu-se a importância de ter um supervisor escolar atuando como mediador dos afetos que ocorrem no interior da escola, de modo a garantir que o processo educativo formal aconteça com qualidade. ABSTRACT. The basic concern of this study is to reflect on the role of the school supervisor regarding the teacher / student relationship, which is essential for the educational process to happen. This article aims to analyze the importance of a good relationship between teachers and students in the process of knowledge construction. A bibliographic research was carried out considering the contributions of several authors, trying to emphasize the importance of the good coexistence between educating and educators, as well as the necessity of the pedagogue to take care that the interpersonal dimension between teachers and learners does not negatively interfere in the teaching process. learning. It was concluded the importance of having a school supervisor acting as a mediator of the affections that occur within the school, in order to ensure that the formal educational process happens with quality.


2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 267-274
Author(s):  
Irsyad Farhah ◽  
Airin Yustikarini Saleh ◽  
Shahnaz Safitri

A good relationship between teachers and students can positively influence the subjective well-being of teachers. However, in the context of middle school setting, a good relationship with students was considered as an effortful attempt for teacher to maintain which was related to the teacher well-being too. It was said that the more teaching experience the teacher has, the easier for them to navigate their relationship with students. Therefore, this study aimed to test whether the teaching experience moderate the impact of the teacher-student relationship to the teacher subjective well-being. The teacher-student relationship was measured using the Student-Teacher Relationship Scale (STRS), while the teacher subjective well-being was measured by the Teacher Subjective Well-Being Questionnaire (TSWQ). Respondents in this study were 289 teachers at the middle school level from both junior high school and senior high school or equivalent. The analysis technique used was a simple moderation analysis. The result showed that there was a positive relationship between the teacher-student relationship, the teacher subjective well-being, and teacher experience. However, this study indicated that there was no moderation role of the teaching experience in weakening or strengthening the close teacher-student relationship impact on the teacher well-being.


Think India ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 22 (2) ◽  
pp. 2665-2673
Author(s):  
Parmanand Tripathi

Every teacher must realize that he/she needs to be highly motivated, committed, passionate, and optimistic towards his/her students as well as his/her teaching in order to create a positive and productive impact on the students and their learning outcomes. It is a proven fact that teachers who are sincere, caring, approachable, supportive and inspiring can easily enable their students to become enthusiastic, successful and creative learners. John Hattie, a proponent of Evidence Based Quantitative Research Methodologies on the Influences on Student achievement, who is also a Professor of Education and Director of the Melbourne Education Research Institute at the University of Melbourne, Australia, has noted in his study that a harmonious classroom can assist with the development of creativity as well as reduce anxiety levels amongst students. In my opinion, the primary objective of all effective and conscious teachers should be to promote a safe and healthy learning environment wherein students will feel confident, comfortable, happy and accepted. Time and again, I am convinced of the fact that only effective and conscious teachers understand, acknowledge and therefore, appreciate the significance of creating a rapport and bonding with their students for providing an education that is positive, productive and progressive. When teachers display a positive and congenial attitude towards their students, they not only make them ‘learn better, faster and deeper’ but make them self-confident and self-reliant too. Building positive, supportive, cooperative and mutually strong teacher-student relationships is the key to create a welcoming, healthy and conducive learning space in which students are enabled to thrive, prosper and go on to become what they are meant to be in life. And it is only by forging and nurturing a strong and positive relationship with their students, can teachers create a healthy and conducive learning atmosphere wherein students feel welcome, accepted, respected, loved and cared for, wherein learning becomes fun and joy. Conscious and committed teachers promote the art of positive parenting in every classroom and in every school to enable the students to become confident learners by willingly and happily shouldering the responsibility of being their ‘second parents’.When teachers teach with passion, display positive attitude towards their students and their success, and show genuine care for them, the students reciprocate with respect for their teachers, interest and love for their learning.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lin-Xin Wang ◽  
Kai Dou ◽  
Jian Bin Li ◽  
Ming-Chen Zhang ◽  
Ji-Yao Guan

Although interparental conflict is a risk factor for adolescent problematic internet use (PIU), little research has investigated the mediating and moderating mechanisms underlying this association from the perspective of "school × family" interplay. To address such gaps, this study tested the idea that interparental conflict might be associated with PIU in adolescents via restraining the protective effect of future positive time perspective and via boosting deleterious effect of future negative time perspective. In addition, this study also investigated the moderation effect of teacher-student relationship in the association between interparental conflict and future time perspective. Using three-wave longitudinal data, with each time point spanning three months apart, this study examined the aforesaid questions in a sample of 523 Chinese adolescents (M age = 14.64, SD = 1.37; 276 boys and 247 girls). Results of moderated mediation model indicated that interparental conflict at T1 was associated with PIU at T3 in adolescents through future negative time perspective at T2, especially for adolescents with a great teacher-student relationship. These findings shed light on the underlying mechanisms that explain how interparental conflict is associated with PIU in adolescents and provide effective prevention and intervention strategies of PIU in a Chinese cultural context


2019 ◽  
Vol 2019 ◽  
pp. 1-7
Author(s):  
Li Xu ◽  
Qi Yang

Although the teacher-student relationship has been addressed in some studies, the cooperation or reciprocal relations between teachers and students have not been explored sufficiently. In this paper, a difference equation model is applied to express the relationship, stability analysis at the positive steady state of the discrete model is done to verify that the performance output is not empty, and hypothesis testing is conducted to show the validity of the model by means of sample data from a college. Then some reasonable suggestions are proposed to improve the performance output of teachers and students.


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