Dissertations / Theses: 'Teacher and student wellbeing'

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Herriman, Mark E. "The three R's, relationships, relationships, relationships: How can teacher-student relationships be more positive and productive in secondary schools?" Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2022. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/230036/1/Mark_Herriman_Thesis.pdf.

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A positive teacher-student relationship is known to have many benefits for teachers and students alike, such as improving student wellbeing, academic engagement and performance, and school retention rates, reducing incidents of bullying, as well as protecting teachers from burnout and stress. However, there is no clear framework of strategies for starting and maintaining relationships with students, particularly in secondary schools in Australia. This research sought the opinions of students, secondary teachers, parents and school counsellors of what a productive and positive teacher-student relationship was and what they thought were the strategies for teachers to start and maintain such a relationship. These data facilitated the construction of a comprehensive framework, the Student-Teacher and Relationship Formation Framework (STARF), to document strategies for starting and maintaining teacher-student relationships as articulated by key stakeholders.

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Jefferies, Willow. "Mindfulness practices in secondary schools: Exploring teachers’ attitudes, and the barriers and facilitators to achieving teacher buy-in to a whole-school approach." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2021. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/2479.

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Mindfulness practices are increasingly being introduced into schools as a whole-school approach, with teachers often responsible for implementing the exercises with their students. The aim of this research project was to explore the attitudes secondary teachers hold towards mindfulness practices and determine the barriers to and facilitators of teachers buying-in to a mindfulness initiative. A qualitative research methodology was utilised with twelve semistructured interviews conducted across three Perth metropolitan secondary schools. Interview questions were devised using both attitudinal constructs and the Revised Theoretical Domains Framework (TDF-R). In order to separately explore both teachers’ attitudes towards mindfulness practices and the barriers to and facilitators of their buy-in to an initiative, the interview data were analysed twice. In the first instance, deductive analysis was used within the suite of questions relating to each attitudinal construct. Following this, a hybrid approach was used to determine which TDF-R domains acted as either barriers to or facilitators of achieving participant buy-in to a mindfulness initiative. Findings indicated that this sample of secondary teachers held ambivalent attitudes towards the implementation of mindfulness practices as a whole-school approach. This included participants’ having a positive attitude towards mindfulness practices in schools, while holding reservations regarding whether teachers should be the ones to implement the practices. The TDF-R domains Situational Knowledge and Beliefs about Consequences were deemed to be facilitators of participant buy-in. The following domains were considered barriers to participant buy-in: Beliefs about Capabilities, Professional Role and Identity, Organisational Culture and Resources. The implications of the research include ensuring schools’ expectations of educators are clearly defined, providing staff with adequate training, and ensuring the leadership have authentic and consistent intentions.

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Butler, Helen. "Student Wellbeing as Educational Practice: Learning from Educators’ Stories of Experience." Thesis, Australian Catholic University, 2017. https://acuresearchbank.acu.edu.au/download/542c3d139d37742295411aca31e8f8b8cb1cc5fcdb37ea9e8f21e289b4a06e36/5462160/BUTLER_2017_THESIS.pdf.

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The promotion of student wellbeing is a key goal of Australian education, increasingly acknowledged as the responsibility of all educators. This study was designed to improve understanding of how educators develop understanding and practice of student wellbeing. The significance of the inquiry is that it is focused on how educators integrate student wellbeing within their practice and identities rather than simply on what they need to know about student wellbeing and how they can be trained to deliver student wellbeing related content and skills. Narrative methodology and methods are used to explore how educators conceptualise student wellbeing; how they locate student wellbeing within their professional practice; and how these processes are influenced by their personal and professional experiences. Research conversations, incorporating a series of visual and narrative research activities, were undertaken with twenty school-based and system-based teachers and leaders within the Catholic education system in Melbourne, Victoria. Analysis of participants’ accounts focused on both the telling (process) and the told (content). In relation to the telling, the combined processes of drawing and storying practice and experience enabled participants to recognise and articulate their understanding and practice of student wellbeing. Participants emphasised the intertwining of conceptual, practical, and, importantly, relational elements of understanding and practice. Analysis of the stories told highlighted the interwoven influences of people, places, and experiences in rhizomatic, rather than linear, journeys of becoming educators with a focus on student wellbeing. The findings of the study suggest that teachers’ complex stories of student wellbeing as educational practice might be used productively by teacher educators, researchers, policymakers, and educators themselves help to shape an integrated, dialogical agenda for student wellbeing practice, teacher education, research, and policy development and implementation.

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De, George-Walker Linda. "An Investigation of Teachers' Efficacy for Promoting and Supporting the Social and Emotional Health and Wellbeing of Students." Thesis, Griffith University, 2012. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/368121.

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Evidence is mounting that school-based support programs for student mental health are associated with improved wellbeing and academic outcomes. These programs necessitate teacher participation, yet teachers’ views are varied about the extent to which supporting student mental health is integral to the teaching role. Furthermore, teacher involvement in these activities can vary in quantity and quality. Teacher self-efficacy has received attention as a variable of interest for understanding teacher attitudes, participation, and performance in their work supporting student wellbeing. There has been some consideration of the antecedents of teacher self-efficacy for supporting student wellbeing, such as teacher training, but so far there has been no research using the framework of the sources of efficacy information proposed in Bandura’s self-efficacy theory (Bandura, 1977a, 1977b, 1997) and the model of teacher efficacy (Tschannen Moran, Woolfolk Hoy, & Hoy, 1998). Some studies investigating teacher self-efficacy in the area of teachers’ work supporting student wellbeing have conceptualised the construct broadly and used measures with inadequate domain specificity. Other studies have employed domain specific conceptualisations and measures, but validity-related concerns limit the use of these measures in other studies.
Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy in Organisational Psychology (PhD OrgPsych)
School of Psychology
Griffith Health
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Andersson, Anna, and Kajza Melandsö. "Psykisk hälsa i skolan, ett förebyggande arbete : En enkätstudie över lärare i ämnet Idrott och hälsas uppfattning om arbetet med psykisk hälsa på lektionstid." Thesis, Högskolan Dalarna, Socialt arbete, 2018. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:du-29827.

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The aim of this study was to study how Swedish teachers in Physical education work with mental health, their own perceived level of knowledge and how they wish to work. A quantitative survey has been conducted via Facebook. In total 146 respondents participated in the survey. The results were analyzed with the theories KASAM and OCB role perception taken into account, and linked to previous research. The result shows that teachers plan for mental health in the education quite rarely, but nevertheless talk about mental health relatively often outside of scheduled time. Most teachers consider themselves to have a fairly good knowledge of mental health. However, more than half of them perceive that the subject has been treated to a low degree during their own education. Most teachers want mental health to take a greater part in lessons. Several teachers suggest that mental health should become an own subject.
Studiens syfte var att studera hur lärare i Idrott och hälsa arbetar med psykisk hälsa, deras upplevda kunskapsnivå samt hur de önskar arbeta med psykisk hälsa. En kvantitativ enkätundersökning har genomförts via Facebook. I denna deltog totalt 146 respondenter. Resultatet har analyserats och tolkats utifrån teorierna KASAM och OCB rolluppfattning, samt utifrån tidigare forskning inom området. Resultatet visar att nästan alla respondenter anser att skolan har ansvar för undervisning i psykisk hälsa. Lärare planerar ganska sällan för psykisk hälsa på lektionstid, men berör ändå ämnet relativt ofta utanför schemalagd lektionstid. De flesta lärare anser sig ha en ganska god kunskap om psykisk hälsa, dock upplever mer än hälften att ämnet behandlats i låg omfattning under lärarutbildningen. De flesta lärare vill att psykisk hälsa ska utgöra en större del av undervisningen även om bristande tid och utrymme utgör hinder. Flera lärare föreslår att psykisk hälsa borde bli ett eget skolämne.

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Huggins, Lynda Rose. "Ninth Grade Student and Teacher Perceptions of Teacher-Student Relationship." ScholarWorks, 2016. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/2289.

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The challenge of transitioning into high school is associated with social anxiety, decreased grades, increased absences, and overall motivation to learn. Based on anecdotal evidence from 9th grade teachers in the Ohio School District, teachers had poor rapport with some of their students, and 9th graders were being retained more often than were students in any other grade. Grounded in Noddings's care theory, the purpose of this mixed methods sequential case study was to explore perceptions of rapport between 9th graders and their teachers. Guiding research questions were used to discover student and teacher perceptions about their relationship as it relates to care, respect, and communication. Archived data from Gallop Poll surveys given to 9th grade students at 3 schools (n = 163) demonstrated student perceptions of their relationships with teachers. Additionally, 15 teachers were randomly selected for a focus group interview about rapport with students. The interview transcripts were coded for emergent themes related to the guiding questions. The analysis of the Gallup Poll data included calculation of the mean, standard deviation, median, item score range, mode, and raw-data frequencies/percent for responses to answer the respective research questions. Responses on the survey showed that students perceived a moderate level of bonding with teachers, while the interview data showed that there were issues related to communication with students, administrative support of teachers, and sincerity of teacher care for students. The project outcome is a professional development about communication amongst teacher and students, teachers and teachers, and teachers and administration to improve rapport and reduce the prevalence and impact of adverse events such as dropout and other forms of disengagement.

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Lane, Nicola. "The role of the secondary school in student wellbeing." Thesis, University of Oxford, 2012. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.589596.

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Adolescence is a developmental stage characterised by intense emotional reactivity and formation of identity and can be a challenging time. Young people spend almost as much of their waking life at school as they do at home, therefore education establishments can have an important impact on adolescents' development. This is recognised by the education system and using the school to address adolescents' psychological wellbeing is an established goal for educational institutions. There is a substantive body of research exploring how schools aid students' wellbeing. However there is limited information exploring how schools support and aid young people's wellbeing post bereavement. The first paper presents a systematic review of current universal school-based mental health promotion interventions designed to improve student wellbeing. Methodological limitations are discussed. The review concludes that current research is not providing strong evidence to suggest there are significant long-term benefits of such interventions. Implications for future research are suggested including increasing understanding of how teachers informally manage the emotional needs of students which may be a useful way of working to improve adolescents' mental health in schools. Between 4 - 7% of young people experience the death of a parent by the age of sixteen. The second paper therefore focuses on student wellbeing post bereavement. An empirical study exploring teachers' experiences of supporting students after a parental bereavement is presented. A grounded theory project was undertaken and twelve teachers were interviewed. Participants identified experiencing a range of responses to working with bereaved students, these responses fall within six central processes - Flexibility, Openness, Support, Emotionality, Sharing, and Communication. These processes are conceptualised as continuums to capture the range and fluidity of responses. Teachers' narratives revealed that they were influenced by various contextual factors including systemic, individual and student factors. Teachers described their responses as being fluid, ongoing throughout the bereaved student's school career and unique to each student. A model is presented to illustrate the relationships between influential factors and the six central processes leading to each teacher's unique response.

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Moscatelli, Maria Jordana. "The socialization process of the student teacher during the student-teaching experience continous negotiation between student teacher and mentor teacher /." Pullman, Wash. : Washington State University, 2008. http://www.dissertations.wsu.edu/Dissertations/Fall2008/m_moscatelli_012609.pdf.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Washington State University, December 2008.
Title from PDF title page (viewed on Apr. 15, 2009). "Department of Teaching and Learning." Includes bibliographical references (p. 166-179).

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Chandler, Jack L. "Conflict in student teacher-cooperating teacher relationships." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Blackmore, Jacqueline Hilary. "Teacher-Student Relationships and Student Writing Achievement." Thesis, Walden University, 2014. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3604330.

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Past research has shown that learner-centered environments can improve students' self-esteem and increase their academic skills. The purpose of this study was to determine whether teaching the core curriculum within a caring classroom environment increases students ability to communicate effectively and perform at higher achievement levels in writing. The study addressed the experiences of teachers in implementing a new writing program with a strong emphasis on social skill development as a precursor to good writing. Guided by the social learning theories of Dewey, Rogers, and Vygotsky, who contended that social interaction is vital to the development of cognition, a qualitative case study was undertaken consisting of individual interviews with 15 teachers at 6 elementary schools in southwestern Connecticut. Data were collected to address the extent to which a caring community of students can foster positive academic outcomes. Data were analyzed and coded to discover common themes. Results showed that teachers perceived that the social skills taught through the program did increase students writing skills. In addition, students had better listening skills and were more comfortable taking academic risks. This finding supports past social learning theories. Based on these findings, 3 days of professional learning workshops were created with the goals of building student-teacher relationships, creating learner-centered environments, and curtailing bullying. Equipping teachers with this resource will help to create social change by helping students become better communicators in a diverse society, increasing their graduation rates, and preparing them to enter the global workforce of the 21st century.

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Blackmore, Jacqueline Hilary. "Teacher-Student Relationships and Student Writing Achievement." ScholarWorks, 2011. https://scholarworks.waldenu.edu/dissertations/1102.

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Past research has shown that learner-centered environments can improve students' self-esteem and increase their academic skills. The purpose of this study was to determine whether teaching the core curriculum within a caring classroom environment increases students ability to communicate effectively and perform at higher achievement levels in writing. The study addressed the experiences of teachers in implementing a new writing program with a strong emphasis on social skill development as a precursor to good writing. Guided by the social learning theories of Dewey, Rogers, and Vygotsky, who contended that social interaction is vital to the development of cognition, a qualitative case study was undertaken consisting of individual interviews with 15 teachers at 6 elementary schools in southwestern Connecticut. Data were collected to address the extent to which a caring community of students can foster positive academic outcomes. Data were analyzed and coded to discover common themes. Results showed that teachers perceived that the social skills taught through the program did increase students writing skills. In addition, students had better listening skills and were more comfortable taking academic risks. This finding supports past social learning theories. Based on these findings, 3 days of professional learning workshops were created with the goals of building student-teacher relationships, creating learner-centered environments, and curtailing bullying. Equipping teachers with this resource will help to create social change by helping students become better communicators in a diverse society, increasing their graduation rates, and preparing them to enter the global workforce of the 21st century.

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Denny, Simon John. "The association between school context and student health and wellbeing." Thesis, University of Auckland, 2011. http://hdl.handle.net/2292/9510.

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The overall aim of this thesis is to understand the relationship between school environments and student health and wellbeing outcomes. Specifically, this thesis aims to describe and understand how school environments, including student relationships, teacher wellbeing and health and social support services within schools are associated with student health outcomes. Using a Youth Development Framework, this thesis examines a range of health‐risking behaviours and mental health disorders that have been shown to affect the health and development of adolescents and are the main causes of morbidity and mortality among adolescents in New Zealand. The thesis utilises data from Youth’07, a nationally representative study of over 9,000 secondary school students as well as data from over 2,900 teachers and school administrators who completed questionnaires developed for this thesis on aspects of their school environment and climate. Multilevel modelling is used to explore the association between school contexts and student health and wellbeing outcomes, accounting for student‐level covariates that may confound this relationship. Findings presented within have highlighted the importance of supportive, safe school environments that encourage widespread student participation in school activities. But overall, these school environments appear to play a minor role in determining health outcomes for students compared to other areas of a student’s life that impact their wellbeing. Furthermore, for some students with high levels of emotional and behavioural difficulties, school environments do not appear to be enough to make significant differences in their behaviours. This suggests that, for these students, targeted services are required as opposed to school‐wide environmental changes. Some suggestions of specific areas of school activities are offered that do benefit student health outcomes. These include health and welfare services and supports for disruptive students, which are associated with fewer students engaging in risky sexual behaviours and truanting behaviours respectively. Findings from this thesis should be of interest to policymakers, researchers, educators, families and students, and people in general who are interested in what schools can do to promote the health and wellbeing of young people in New Zealand.

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Valentine, Sherri Monique Baker Paul J. "Teacher leadership graduate student realities /." Normal, Ill. : Illinois State University, 2006. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?index=0&did=1276398781&SrchMode=1&sid=4&Fmt=2&VInst=PROD&VType=PQD&RQT=309&VName=PQD&TS=1181314599&clientId=43838.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 2006.
Title from title page screen, viewed on June 8, 2007. Dissertation Committee: Paul J. Baker (chair), Amee Adkins, Gary S. O'Malley, Lucille Eckrich. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 93-98) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Prehoda, Lauren. "Teacher unions and student achievement." CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2007. http://dspace.wrlc.org/handle/1961/4158.

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Copper, Michael C. "Teacher expectations and student achievement." Virtual Press, 1989. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/720325.

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The 1989 Teacher Expectations and Student Achievement (TESA) study analyzed whether students perceived as low achievers, having been taught by TESA-trained instructors in the Metropolitan School District (MSD) of Warren Township over a three-year period, achieved significantly (p < .05) higher academic gain than a similar control group of students not taught by TESA-trained instructors as measured by the Comprehensive Test of Basic Skills (CTBS).Federal Judge S. Hugh Dillin, in 1971, found the Indianapolis Public Schools (IPS) system to be racially segregated in violation of the Constitution. The ruling indicated that the school system was denying equal opportunity to black children because of race. Following ten years of review and appeals to higher courts, one-way busing of black students from IPS to six suburban school districts began in the fall of 1981 in Marion County, including the MSD of Warren Township. Some of the greatest concerns for one-way busing included the steps being taken to ensure fair treatment and full academic opportunity for all children involved in desegregation.As a result of the desegregation order, the MSD of Warren Township and several other Indianapolis suburban school systems adopted the TESA staff development program. TESA is an intervention program designed to encourage non-discriminatory behavior toward all students in the classroom in order to increase academic performance.The original TESA research was conducted in 1974 by Sam Kerman and Mary Martin in school districts in Los Angeles, California. This 1989 TESA study covered five school years from 1982-1983 through 1986-1987, and followed the progress of 102 students through three consecutive years of being taught by a TESA-trained teacher, or a teacher not trained in TESA skills, in 246 classrooms.A multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) indicated that neither group (TESA or other) or race (black or other) were found to be statistically significant in improving students' academic achievements on the CTBS. Although some academic gains were noted for students taught by TESA-trained teachers over a three-year period, the gains were not statistically significant. TESA continues to be a staff development program many school systems support, but perhaps the interest should not include the expectation that low achieving students will significantly improve academic achievement.

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Czarniecki, Laura. "Teacher impact on student creativity." Online pdf file accessible through the World Wide Web, 2009. http://archives.evergreen.edu/masterstheses/Accession89-10MIT/Czarniecki_LMITthesis2009.pdf.

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Burr, Brenda Sue. "Student Voices in Teacher Evaluations." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2015. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/4448.

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In an ever increasingly competitive global marketplace, a concern exists that American students are not being adequately prepared with the skills needed for the 21st century. As a remedy, improving quality of teacher instruction is a current national focus. Stakeholders are questioning current infrequent and inefficient methods of evaluating teacher performance. Many states are looking at using a 360 model of evaluating through multiple perspectives including the students themselves as key stakeholders. One method of accessing student voice and adding another perspective to teacher evaluations would be to include student evaluations in the rating of teacher performance, Student Evaluation of Teaching (SET). While using student evaluations of teacher performance is wide spread in higher education, the practice has been limited in public school settings until brought to light by the publication of the recent Gates Foundation MET (Measures of Effective Teaching) Project (2010). Currently, states across the nation are considering adding a student input component to teacher evaluations. With the validity and reliability of student evaluations in the university settings still under debate by professors, public school teachers also fear punitive measures and public judgment based on the verdicts of adolescents. This research examined the archival data from a program study of one high school's student evaluation implementation process, accessing teacher feedback from the initial evaluation process and then an adjusted implementation of student evaluations according to teacher feedback the following year. Based on mixed method design using both qualitative and quantitative methods to analyze teacher questionnaires, focus group open-ended responses and statistical analysis of close-ended agree/disagree statements from teacher questionnaires, this study used triangulation to explore teacher reflections on their anxiety levels created by the student evaluation implementation process, the value they found in student evaluations, and the degree to which student evaluations facilitated change in their teaching instruction. Exploring possibilities through the eyes of teachers to reduce their anxiety and increase their value of student input, this study suggests ways to tap into the potential but underutilized resource in schools that could come from developing a mutually beneficial partnership between students and teachers to improve teacher instruction and increase student learning.

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Arteaga, Michael Anthony. "HANDBOOK ON TEACHER-STUDENT RELATIONSHIPS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2017. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/574.

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This project aims to help teachers learn how to connect with their students of different cultural backgrounds. It is written to help teachers understand how cultural differences can have an unseen effect on student learning and immediacy. In turn, these effects can lead to a lack of motivation and lower levels of success in college obtainment. This project will also have a handbook to help teachers learn about their students’ backgrounds and understand how culture plays a role in the learning process. The handbook will review understanding the demographics of the school, cultural mismatch, cultural communication, and instructional communication. These topics are geared to help teachers gain an understanding of the challenges their students face. When teachers are engaging in the handbook sections and working to overcome educational obstacles, their students may have greater academic success.

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Haig, Yvonne G. "Teacher perceptions of student speech." Thesis, Edith Cowan University, Research Online, Perth, Western Australia, 2001. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses/1030.

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Although language variation is widespread and natural,it is subject to judgement. Where a standard language has developed, other varieties tend to be judged against its "standards". While a number of overseas studies have found that this type of linguistic bias occurs in education and negatively impacts on dialect speakers, there has been little research in Australia. The research reported in this thesis investigates how teachers perceive the speech of school-aged students and whether the socio-economic status or level of schooling of the students influence these perceptions. Further, it examines the relationships between the teachers' background, the way they define Standard Australian English, their attitude to language variation and the way they perceive student speech. The research was undertaken as three separate but related studies. Thirty six teachers from twelve different schools were involved - three teachers from four different schools (n=l2) participating in each of the three studies. In Study One, the teachers kept observational notes on the problems they identified in their students' speech for a period of a week. In Study Two, the teachers participated in school-based focus groups to discuss those features they deemed to be problematic in their students' speech. In Study Three, the teachers ranked tape-recorded samples of speech from students who were not known to them. All the teachers provided background information, wrote their own definition of Standard Australian English and completed a questionnaire about their attitude to language variation in general and to the use of particular variants of English. The teachers in the three studies identified aspects of pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar and language use as problematic in student speech. The teachers' judgement of what was problematic and their perception of what caused these problems differed according to the socio-economic status of the students. Many of the features teachers identified as problematic were variants of Australian English. The teachers of low SES students tended to see this variation as evidence of their students' language deficiency and to be the result of their "restricted" backgrounds. The teachers of high SES students identified fewer problems in their students' speech and tended to view variation as developmental, inappropriately informal use of language or the result of deterioration in "standards". The teachers' perceptions of speech also varied according to the year level they were teaching. These perceptions reflected the teachers' own backgrounds, their personal definitions of Standard Australian English, their own "idealised" speech and their view of the relative status of Australian accents. The written form of the language also greatly influenced the teachers' perceptions of student speech. The results of this research have important implications for pedagogy, particularly in relation to equity and social justice. In an education system which increasingly relies on teacher judgements to assess the progress of students, the often negative influence of factors related to a student's background should be of serious concern. A failure to recognise the impact of non-standard features in speech on the educational opportunities and achievements of students would compromise their basic rights and limit the social and economic contributions they would otherwise be able to make.

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Dinning, Laura. "Parent and Teacher Perceptions of Student Teacher Assistance Teams." TopSCHOLAR®, 1997. http://digitalcommons.wku.edu/theses/775.

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The Student Teacher Assistance Team (STAT) method is one form of prereferral intervention that involves the problem-solving of teachers and other school professionals with the goal of obtaining more efficient and effective help for students in the regular education setting. After an examination of the research in the area of prereferral interventions, it was noted that few research studies mentioned parents' involvement in and none were found assessing parents' perceptions of the process. This study examines both parent and teacher perceptions of student teacher assistance teams (STATs) in a small rural county in Kentucky. Participants in the study involved 44 parents of children who have been involved in the STAT team during the 1996-97 school year and 49 teachers who currently teach in the school system. A questionnaire entitled "Parent's Expectations" was administered to the parents, and a questionnaire entitled "Teacher's Views of STAT" with 13 equivalent questions was administered to the teachers. Results of the surveys generally showed higher levels of agreement by parents than by teachers with the descriptors of the STAT process. Specifically, survey results showed that parents rated the following characteristics of the STAT process significantly higher than the teachers in the study: overall helpfulness, improvement in a child's behavior and school work, necessity for helping a child, a focus on a child's strengths and weaknesses, provision of ways to work with the child, and helping a child get along with others. Results also showed that parents and teachers hold separate beliefs about the STAT process. Teachers were significantly more likely than parents to view the process as only as a step toward testing. In contrast, parents were more likely to believe that the team will find the cause of their child's problems and will tell them what the future holds for their child. Further results showed that views differed between those teachers who have been a member of a STAT team and those who have never participated in the process. Teachers who have been a member of the STAT team were more likely to believe that the team will listen to what they have to say, while those who had been a team member were more likely to believe that the STAT team will provide them with ways to work with their students. In addition, results also showed that teachers of higher grades (4-8) viewed the process in a more positive manner than did teachers of lower grades (K-3).

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O'Shea, Michael D. "STUDENT PERCEPTIONS OF TEACHER SUPPORT: EFFECT ON STUDENT ACHIEVEMENT." Connect to this title online, 2006. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1143054461.

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Barnes, Barbara (Principal). "Impact of Teacher and Student Ethnicity on Student Assessments." Thesis, University of North Texas, 2016. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc849641/.

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The purpose of the study was to answer the questions: Do students show greater academic success in English language arts/reading as measured by the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) exam scores in secondary education when their teachers are the same ethinicity? Do students show greater academic success in math as measured by the TAKS exam scores in secondary education when their teachers are the same ethnicity? Minority students' success on the TAKS test was compared to the assessment scores of White students from the 2010-2011, 2011-2012, and 2012-13 school year in thre suburban school districts. This topic has been a subject of discussion since the late 10970s when Cardenas and Cardenas (1977) studied the achievement among minority students and their White peers. The conversation continued through authors such as Takei and Shouse (2008), Hays (2011), Ladson-Billings (2006), Dee (2003, 2005), and Brown (2006). To answer these research questions, a hierarchical multiple regression analysis was conducted on the data collected. Although the study verified the achievement gap between minority students and White students, the study indicated no consistent pattern corroborating that minority students were more successful when taught by teachers of the same ethnicity. In many cases, students learned better with teachers of a different ethnicity. Black students were successful with Hispanic or White teachers, Hispanic students were successful with Black or White teachers, and White students were successful with Black or Hispanic teachers. The TAKS assessment scores were the only data used to support this analysis.

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Hon, Ka Ling. "Teacher-student relationship in an age of student consumerism." Thesis, Durham University, 2015. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/11051/.

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This thesis is about teacher-student relationship in higher education. Set against the background of marketization, when the higher education sector is seen as a market, education institutions act like business enterprises, and students are seen as customers, teacher-student relationship is commonly perceived as having transformed itself to resemble a customer-seller relationship. On a conceptual level, this transformation is doing a disservice to the sector, as revealed in the many obvious differences between a customer-seller relationship and that between teachers and students. Academics, in particular, vehemently resist such conceptualizations, blaming such transformations as the main culprit of the prevalence of students’ disengagement and incivility in higher education nowadays. While much of what has been said about the negative influence of student consumerism on teacher-student relationship has been anecdotal in nature, this thesis attempts to offer some empirical evidence to fill the gap in the literature. Because of its quantitative nature, this study focused on only one of the many possible dimensions of examining teacher-student relationship, the power relations, measured by the level of teachers’ influence on students. Using the Interpersonal Power Interaction Model (IPIM) as the conceptual framework, this thesis assesses the relationship between student consumerism and teacher power by (1) examining the association between the students’ consumerist attitude and teachers’ hard and soft power bases and (2) establishing the moderation effect of students’ consumerist attitude on the relationship between students’ personality variables and teachers’ soft and hard power bases. The study was conducted in the HKUSPACE Community College, the leading community college of the sector which has been operating on a fully self-financing status since its establishment in 2000. Data was collected by way of a questionnaire survey covering the key variables including students’ consumerist attitude, compliance with teachers’ power, as well as four personality variables: motivation orientation, desire for control, concern for appropriateness and self-esteem. Statistical analysis of the findings from the research confirmed only some of the hypotheses. In terms of correlation, while students’ consumerist attitude was found to be positively associated with soft power base as hypothesized, its correlation with hard power base was also found to be positive, which was contradictory to the hypothesis. In terms of moderation, consumerist attitude was found to moderate only three out of ten relationships between personality factors and teacher power bases. Specifically, students’ consumerist attitude was found to moderate the relationship between intrinsic motivation and compliance with both hard and soft power bases, as well as that between concern for appropriateness and soft power base. Results have been analyzed in light of the literature on instructional communication and teaching effectiveness with implications offered to warn educators against the potential abuse of soft power as well as on the proper use of both power bases to exercise positive influence on students. Implications were also drawn on further research in the area of teacher-student relationship in the context of a marketized education sector.

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Calhoun, Adam A. "Teacher-Student Relationships, Classroom Environment, and Student Intrinsic Motivation." University of Findlay / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=findlay1565098233906771.

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Broszczak, Amanda. "Music listening for student engagement: Teacher and student perspectives." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/133823/1/Amanda_Broszczak_Thesis.pdf.

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This study explored teacher and student perspectives on music listening for student engagement through semi-structured interviews. Two major findings are reported: music may be used to focus and motivate students during individual and non-challenging tasks; and, individual music listening can reduce classroom distractions.

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Hagemeier, Nicholas E., Chelsea L. Beavers, and Tucker S. Carlson. "A Longitudinal Analysis of Pharmacy Student Wellbeing: The First Professional Year." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2018. https://dc.etsu.edu/etsu-works/5429.

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Edgar, Don Wayne. "Structured communication: effects on teaching efficacy of student teachers and student teacher - cooperating teacher relationships." Diss., Texas A&M University, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/5975.

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Teaching efficacy beliefs of agricultural science student teachers, and their relationship with their cooperating teachers during field experiences, are variables that may affect the number of student teachers entering the profession. The purpose of this study was to examine the effects implementing structured communication between student teachers and cooperating teachers would have on student teachersÃ¢ÂÂ self-perceived teaching efficacy, and the relationship between the student teacher and cooperating teacher during the student teaching experience. The learning environment of these field experiences must be more fully understood to explain why some student teachers enter the profession of agriculture science teaching, and others do not. A conceptual model guiding this study, based upon a thorough review of the literature, explains the role of constructivism, teaching efficacy, and communication theory. This study employed a quasi-experimental design with a non-random sample in a multiple time-series design. The average respondent in this study was a 23 year old white undergraduate female placed at a multiple placement cooperating center. Respondents in an environment where the amount and type of communication between student teachers and cooperating teachers was structured were less efficacious when compared to those respondents who were not in a structured communication setting. In addition, student teachers in a structured communication environment declined in their teaching efficacy measurements overall, whereas student teachers who were not involved in structured communication increased in their self-perceived teaching efficacy levels. Through contrast analysis, the age and academic standing of student teachers significantly affected their perception of the value cooperating teachers placed upon student teacher Ã¢ÂÂ cooperating teacher relationships. Structured communication influences student teachersÃ¢ÂÂ beliefs regarding their ability to teach and their perception of their relationship with the cooperating teacher. In order to better understand the perceptions of student teachers regarding their teaching efficacy levels, and the student teacher Ã¢ÂÂ cooperating teacher relationship, additional research should be conducted in these identified areas. In addition, further research should be conducted on these variables at other institutions of higher education with teacher preparation programs in agricultural education.

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Poklar, Ashley E. "Urban Teacher-Student Relationship Quality, Teacher Burnout, and Cultural Competence." Cleveland State University / OhioLINK, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=csu1544051173124532.

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Grudnoff, Alexandra Barbara. "Becoming a Teacher: An Investigation of the Transition from Student Teacher to Teacher." The University of Waikato, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10289/2647.

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This thesis seeks to gain greater knowledge of the process of transition and development that beginning primary teachers undergo over their first year of teaching. The research focus is on investigating and understanding this process from the standpoint of the beginning teacher. Of particular interest is an examination of how the teacher preparation programme, contextual features of the school, and participants' own beliefs and biographies influence and impact on their transition to teaching and their professional and identity development as first year teachers. This longitudinal study takes an interpretive approach to investigate the first year teaching experiences of 12 beginning teachers in 11 primary schools. The qualitative methodology used in this thesis shares characteristics with a case study approach and utilizes procedures associated with grounded theory. Data were gathered systematically over a year by way of 48 semi-structured, individual interviews, two focus group interviews, and 48 questionnaires, supplemented by field notes. The collected data were analyzed, coded, and categorized, and explanations and theory that emerged from this process were grounded in the data. The findings of this study have three broad sets of implications for the education and induction of beginning teachers. Firstly, they question the role that practicum plays in the transition from student to teacher. The findings suggest that the practicum component of teacher preparation programmes should be re-conceptualized and redesigned to provide authentic opportunities for student teachers to be exposed to the full range of work demands and complexity that they will encounter as beginning teachers. Secondly, becoming a successful teacher appears to depend on the quality of the school's professional and social relationships, particularly in terms of the frequency and type of formal and informal interactions that ii beginning teachers have with colleagues. While the major source of satisfaction and self-esteem came from seeing the children whom they taught achieving socially and academically, the beginning teachers also had a strong need for affiliation, which was enabled through positive, structured interactions and relationships with colleagues. The study also indicates that employment status influences the way that the beginning teachers view their work and themselves as teachers, with those in relieving positions displaying greater variability in terms of emotional reactions and a sense of professional confidence than those employed in permanent positions. The third set of implications relate to beginning teacher induction. The study points to variability in the quality of induction experiences and challenges policy makers and principals to ensure that all beginning teachers are provided with sound and systematic advice and guidance programmes which are necessary for their learning and development. While the study confirms the critical role played by tutor teachers in beginning teacher induction, it suggests that the focus is on emotional and practical support rather than on educative mentoring to enhance new teachers' thinking and practice. This thesis provides a comprehensive and nuanced view of how beginning to teach is experienced and interpreted. It paints a complex picture of the relationship between biography, beliefs, preparation, and context in the process of learning to teach. The study contributes to the literature on the education of beginning teachers. It highlights the need for developing a shared understanding amongst policy makers, teacher educators, and schools regarding the multiplicity and complexity of factors that influence the transition and development of beginning teachers.

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Eddy, Thomas M. McNeal Larry. "Teacher and student perceptions of school environment and student discipline." Normal, Ill. Illinois State University, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/ilstu/fullcit?p9819892.

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Thesis (Ed. D.)--Illinois State University, 1997.
Title from title page screen, viewed June 14, 2006. Dissertation Committee: Larry McNeal (chair), Paul J. Baker, Lemuel W. Watson, Joe Parks. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 102-112) and abstract. Also available in print.

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Miller, Ricketts Amanda Ilene. "Improving Students' Perceptions of Teacher Care Through Teacher Professional Development." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1573737421317659.

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Irwin, Bartholomew. "Teacher Attitudes Toward Teacher Evaluation." Diss., Virginia Tech, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/85527.

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Teacher evaluations have always been a part of school leaders' jobs (Horng, Klasik, and Loeb, 2010). Teacher evaluation is used as a factor in determining whether or not a teacher receives a continuing contract in Virginia, and it has also been a part of the process in determining if a teacher is labeled as highly effective. In some school divisions, the rating a teacher receives may be tied to their merit-based compensation. In 2012, the Virginia Department of Education released the Guidelines for Uniform Performance Standards and Evaluation Criteria for Principals, which provides school divisions a structure for their teacher evaluation instrument (Virginia Department of Education [VDOE], 2012). This document requires that Virginia school divisions include a quantifiable measure of student performance as a component of their teacher evaluation instrument. When teachers transfer from one school to another within the same school division many aspects of their job change. For example, the school leader who performs the teacher's evaluation changes and the student population changes as well. The presence of these variables may have an effect on a teacher's evaluation, but they are not controlled by the teacher being evaluated. The purpose of this basic qualitative study is to determine teachers' attitudes toward teacher evaluation when the teacher has transferred schools within the same school division. Eight teachers were interviewed regarding their attitude toward teacher evaluation. The data indicate that the change in evaluator when a teacher transfers work sites has a stronger impact than any other variable in the transfer process. The data also indicate that a change in the context for the teacher being evaluated does not affect their attitude towards evaluation.
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Todoroff, Ryan. "Student perceptions of formative teacher evaluation putting the student back in student evaluations /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Galarza, Elizabeth. "Teacher-Student Dialogic Exchange and Power." Thesis, Hofstra University, 2018. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10751430.

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Abstract Power is an unavoidable issue when discussing relationships between teachers and their students because teachers have both the sanctioned authority over students in school, as well as having the natural authority conveyed by being an adult. How can writing with students improve teacher-student relationships and soften the power differential? This dissertation explored the language of real and perceived power by analyzing the written conversations between a teacher (myself) and five of my sixth-grade students in dialogue journals. Although previous research indicates that writing in dialogue journals increases student empowerment, no research has focused on how these opportunities to shift power differentials might impact student learning and the teacher-student relationships. Drawing on Vygotsky?s sociocultural theory of language and learning and Rosenblatt?s transactional theory of reading and writing, this study examined language within the journals that indicated student empowerment, student disempowerment, and teacher-student relationship-building. Using a directed qualitative critical content analysis, five dialogue journals were analyzed to identify text that showed reinforcement of conventional language, reversal of conventional language, or the language of role equality. Findings suggest that when authentic relationships are built, and traditional roles are suspended, students are empowered in various ways, and language of equality can be attained. This research is important to the field of literacy studies because writing with students in dialogue journals is a classroom practice that can empower students and improve relationships between teachers and students. There is a mutual advantage in students and teachers developing an authentic, positive, growth-oriented working relationship. Keywords: dialogue journals, student empowerment, teacher-student relationships, conventional language, equality, written conversation, communication partners

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De, Clercq Loya Marie, and University of Lethbridge Faculty of Education. "Student-teacher rapport in video-conferencing." Thesis, Lethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Faculty of Education, 1996, 1996. http://hdl.handle.net/10133/33.

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Education and delivery methods of this education to students are always chaning. To teach students in geographically separated locations, many technologies are being used and one of these technologies is video-conferencing. However, the human element of education must neither be lost nor forgotten as we continue with new ways of educating students of the future. That is, the value of the student-instructor relationship and the critical role it plays in effective teaching and learning must be retained by distance educators. To develop a deeper understanding of the relationship between instructors and students of a video-conferenced classroom is the goal of this study. This case of student-teacher rapport in video-conferencing was conducted over a six-week summer course. Data were collected by questionnaire, student and instructor interviews, and class observations from both sites. From these primarily qualitative research techniques, several recurring themes emerged. All of these were central to the establishment and perceptions of an instructor-student rapport. Some of these areas were crucial to this video-conferencing case study and will serve to assist futre educators. The primary result of this case study was that very little rapport was established between the instructor and his students and it was perceived by the instructor and the students that this scant amount of rapport was sufficient. The paramount themes which were revealed include: the lack of name knowledge on the part of the instructor and the students' perception that this was acceptable; the technological problems; the question-asking procedures; and the amount of side-chatter and other off-task behaviours. All of these factors compounded to suppress the existence of an instructor-student rapport in this course. Recommendations for distance educators are included.
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Hutchinson, Steven. "Boundaries, bricolage and student-teacher learning." Thesis, Open University, 2008. http://oro.open.ac.uk/23596/.

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This thesis explores the learning opportunities that are presented to student-teachers as they talk about teaching and learning with their school-based mentor and part-time university-based tutor. Against the backcloth of endemic complexity in initial teacher education, the study asks what these conversations tell us about student-teacher learning. What each of these participants talk about, the sources they draw on and the levels of agreement, disagreement or contradiction evident in their conversations with one another are issues that are central to developing an understanding of this research problem and to this thesis. The thesis adopts an activity theoretical approach, complemented by a social learning theory perspective, to investigate the way that boundaries between university study and the classroom as a site for work-based learning are seen as learning assets. The research is in two phases, the first in the form of a scoping questionnaire which attempts to identify the level of perceived contradiction by student-teachers on a PGCE course and the second in the form of four case studies. A variety of data-gathering tools and methods inform the studies and, in particular, content analysis is used to examine and report on conversations which centre around one taught lesson in each case. The study reveals understandings about the way that learning opportunities are presented to student-teachers. When teaching is presented as a process of bricolage and when provenance is not fully articulated, opportunities for expansive and systemic learning are restricted. The thesis argues that by looking at student-teacher learning systemically, with a focus on dissonance, student-teacher learning can be enhanced. It concludes with recommendations for the Open University PGCE programme team.

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Rickards, Anthony W. J. "The relationship of teacher-student interpersonal behaviour with student sex, cultural background and student outcomes." Thesis, Curtin University, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1229.

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The major purposes of this study were to provide validation data for the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI) with a large Australian sample and examine the relationship of teacher-student interpersonal behaviour with student sex, cultural background and student outcomes. The sample from lower secondary science classrooms in Australia consisted of 3,215 students in 158 classes in 43 schools in two Australian states, namely Tasmania and Western Australia. The sample was chosen carefully so as to be representative, though only co-educational classes were used in order to permit an unconfounded test of sex differences. Students and teachers completed a questionnaire which included the QT1, an attitude to class scale based on the Test of Science Related Attitudes (TOSRA), a cognitive achievement measure based on items from the Test of Enquiry Skills (TOES) and a five-item cultural background survey. The study follows the current trend in the field of classroom environment research of combining qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative component of the study involved about 100 interviews. This study is unique in that it provides a very large database of teacher-student interaction data in science classrooms and provides new insights into the relationships between teacher-student interpersonal behaviour with student sex, cultural background and student outcomes. The study found that there were associations between teacher student interpersonal behaviour and student sex and that there were differences in the way that students from different cultural backgrounds perceived their learning environments. Student achievement and student attitude to class were also found to be positively associated with teacher-student interpersonal behaviour. As a practical outcome of this study, the 48-item QT1 has been shown to be useful to Australian lower secondary science teachers as an initiator of self reflection on teaching practice.

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Rizek, Courtney. "A Close Teacher Makes a Better Student: The Impact of Teacher-Student Relationship on Adolescents' Academic Motivation." Ohio Dominican University Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2012. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oduhonors1336952967.

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Clair, Jon. "Exploring the Effects of Boarding School Staffing Models on Staff and Student Wellbeing: A Comparative Case Study of Boarding Staff Perspectives." Thesis, Griffith University, 2021. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/408096.

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England’s education system has a long history of boarding schools, with upwards of 75,000 boarders educated each year (Boarding Schools Association, 2020a; Independent Schools Council, 2020). Boarding schools are regarded as unique educational environments and, in recent times, there has been increasing consideration of the value and effect of these environments on the wellbeing of both staff and students. To date, proponents and opponents of boarding education have been unable to resolve their differing perspectives on the impacts of a boarding education on staff and student wellbeing. This uncertainty has occurred in the context of increasing rates of teacher attrition alongside the expanding role schools are expected to play in the domain of student personal development. Despite existing research documenting the importance of organisational factors as determinants of wellbeing, such as staffing factors, the focus often remains on the individual, with little research specifically addressing the boarding environment itself. In the context of this research need, this exploratory qualitative study compared the impact of two emergent boarding school staffing models on staff and student wellbeing through the perceptions of boarding school staff. A comparative case study methodology was employed, with purposive selection of two schools in England as instrumental case studies representing each of the two emergent models: a) the teacher-led model, which favoured the use of teaching staff in dual teaching-boarding positions, and b) the distinct-staff model, which favoured separation between boarding house staff and teaching staff. Data were collected through a document analysis of school-based policies and webpages and external inspection reports, together with semi-structured interviews with five boarding house staff at each site. The lived experience of boarding school staff was privileged within this study through the application of standpoint theory (Allen, 2017) and a relational wellbeing framework (S. White, 2010, 2017) used for the identification of broad determinant factors. Data analysis was conducted using Leximancer (Smith, 2016), an automated data mining software package, and complemented with line-by-line manual processes. Document analysis utilising Leximancer revealed that the case study contexts were comparable with respect to their policy environments and school-based factors, with differences predominantly emerging from the staffing model in use. Analysis of interview data utilising Leximancer revealed five key themes: Boarding, School, Children, Time, and Work. These themes reflected a textual focus on contextual factors, with substantial similarity emerging between the two case study sites with respect to the ranked concepts identified. This contextual focus and resulting similarity highlighted a common lived experience of participants between case study sites and provided a foundation for manual analysis of the interview data. Manual line-by-line analysis identified five themes through which staff and student wellbeing was framed in relational terms: Provision, Roles, Routines, Relationships, and Fit. Responsive to both the interview data and factors identified in the literature, these themes were united with the contextual themes which emerged from Leximancer analysis to produce a conceptual framework for the study. This conceptual framework supported the development of differences between the two models with respect to the composition of staff roles and their impact on role stress and role conflict and the consistency of boarding routines with respect to continuity of care. Patterns of boarding provision, quality of relationships, and reciprocal person-organisation fit were interrelated and important in both cases but were secondary to Roles and Provision as differentiating factors. The models were deemed to be justifiable constructions based on study observations. Findings from this small-scale study recommend the distinct-staff model as most supportive of staff and student wellbeing. This study found that the separation of teaching and boarding roles served to reduce role stress and role conflict for boarding and teaching staff alike, producing benefits for both staff and student wellbeing in this research context. Participants in the distinct-staff case reported that this model provided improved continuity of care to boarders through greater consistency in the staffing of the boarding house. Additional implications and guiding principles for schools to support the wellbeing of staff and students in boarding included: (a) adapt provision responsively to reflect the needs of current staff and students; (b) evaluate staff roles to minimise role stress and role conflict; (c) review routines and transitions to facilitate continuity of care; (d) support relationship development both professionally and personally; and (e) maximise fit between individual needs and the requirements of the institution. Exploratory in nature, this study has contributed to the limited boarding school literature base, providing the foundation for future research needed to generalise these findings more confidently.
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Master of Education and Professional Studies Research (MEdProfStRes)
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Toale, Mary C. "Teacher clarity and teacher misbehaviors relationships with students' affective learning and teacher credibility /." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2001. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=1940.

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Pettis, Kelly Sue. "The Relationship Between Teacher-Student Interactions and Student Course Engagement from a Student Perspective." Thesis, Grand Canyon University, 2017. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=10638859.

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The extent of the relationship between teacher-student interaction and student course engagement was not known. This quantitative, correlational study examined if, and to what extent, a relationship existed between these four domains and student course engagement of technical college students. The Model of Teacher Behavior, Social Cognitive Theory, and the engagement conceptual framework provided the theoretical foundations and framework for this study. The research questions addressed if there was a significant relationship between each domain of teacher-student interaction and student course engagement, and of the four domains, which was the strongest, as well as weakest predictor of student course engagement. One hundred eighty-five participants enrolled in English classes at a technical college in the Northeastern United States completed the questionnaires on Teacher Interaction and Student Course Engagement. Pearson’s r – a parametric statistic – revealed a positive relationship between cooperation and student course engagement: r = .363, p < .001, two-tailed. This relationship suggested that as scores on cooperation increase, student course engagement also tends to increase. The results from the bootstrap approach for the regression analysis suggested the cooperation domain was significantly associated with course engagement: 95% CI [.32, 1.41]. This study adds to the existing body of knowledge on teacher-student interactions and student course engagement by focusing on each domain of teacher-student interaction.

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Roe, John Wilford. "Student Self-Assessment and Student Ratings of Teacher Rapport in Secondary Student Course Ratings." DigitalCommons@USU, 2010. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/704.

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This study involved administering two rating forms (student self-rating on commitment and student rating of teacher rapport) to approximately 1,400 secondary students taught by 12 different teachers at two different high school Latter-day Saint (LDS) released time seminaries along the Wasatch Front in Utah. Seminaries and Institutes of Religion (S&I) function within the Church Educational System (CES) of the LDS Church, providing religious education for secondary students between the ages of 14-18. The purpose of this study was to explore relationships between student, teacher, and course characteristics on student ratings of teacher rapport and to explore a possible relationship between student self-assessments on their own commitment to learning with student ratings on their rapport with their teacher. Evidence suggests that teacher characteristics such as the teacher's age and experience have little to no impact on student ratings of teacher rapport. Female students tended to rate their teacher more favorably on rapport than male students, although practical significance was minimal. Younger students reported greater interest in seminary and higher-grade expectancy. They also tended to rate themselves higher on commitment. A statistically significant difference was found for teacher rapport scores between two groups based on the order of test administration. Group 1--self-first (student self-rating before student rating of teacher rapport) reported higher levels of rapport than group 2--comparison (student rating of teacher rapport prior to student self-rating). Students tended to rate their teacher more favorably after completing a self-rating on commitment. Practical significance between study groups was minimal because findings were small. Further research is suggested based on these findings to seek more understanding regarding the relationship between student self-evaluations and student ratings of their teacher.

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Rickards, Anthony W. J. "The relationship of teacher-student interpersonal behaviour with student sex, cultural background and student outcomes." Curtin University of Technology, Science and Mathematics Education Centre, 1998. http://espace.library.curtin.edu.au:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=10685.

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The major purposes of this study were to provide validation data for the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI) with a large Australian sample and examine the relationship of teacher-student interpersonal behaviour with student sex, cultural background and student outcomes. The sample from lower secondary science classrooms in Australia consisted of 3,215 students in 158 classes in 43 schools in two Australian states, namely Tasmania and Western Australia. The sample was chosen carefully so as to be representative, though only co-educational classes were used in order to permit an unconfounded test of sex differences. Students and teachers completed a questionnaire which included the QT1, an attitude to class scale based on the Test of Science Related Attitudes (TOSRA), a cognitive achievement measure based on items from the Test of Enquiry Skills (TOES) and a five-item cultural background survey. The study follows the current trend in the field of classroom environment research of combining qualitative and quantitative methods. The qualitative component of the study involved about 100 interviews. This study is unique in that it provides a very large database of teacher-student interaction data in science classrooms and provides new insights into the relationships between teacher-student interpersonal behaviour with student sex, cultural background and student outcomes. The study found that there were associations between teacher student interpersonal behaviour and student sex and that there were differences in the way that students from different cultural backgrounds perceived their learning environments. Student achievement and student attitude to class were also found to be positively associated with teacher-student interpersonal behaviour. As a practical outcome of this study, the 48-item QT1 has been shown to be useful to Australian lower secondary science ++
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Cayanus, Jacob L. "The relationships between teacher self-disclosure, student motives, student affect, relational certainty, and student participation." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2002. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=2428.

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Nugent, Tisome. "THE IMPACT OF TEACHER-STUDENT INTERACTION ON STUDENT MOTIVATION AND ACHIEVEMENT." Doctoral diss., University of Central Florida, 2009. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/3770.

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The goal of this research was to determine the value and impact of student-teacher interactions in relation to student motivation and achievement. It was further intended that the results of this study would add to the body of knowledge and resources available to enhance the learning experience and influence student success. In order for this to happen, student and teacher perceptions of their interactions were analyzed, as well whether or not this interaction significantly impacted motivation and achievement. The results of this study provided strong arguments in favor of equipping teachers with the appropriate resources and assistance to appropriately meet the needs of their students beyond academic instruction. The slightly negative relationship between motivation and achievement isolated the issue at hand: finding ways to capitalize on these relationships, which will act as catalysts for student achievement The literature review and results of this study found that teacher-student relationships are crucial to student success. Pearson Correlation analysis proved positive correlations between teacher-student interaction and motivation, as well as positive teacher-student interaction and achievement. It however, illustrated a negative relationship between motivation and achievement. Suggested uses for the study included the development of workshops for educators and administrators that may have a positive effect on the proven significance of the teacher-student relationship problem. The results suggest the need for teachers to be provided with appropriate resources and assistance to meet the needs of their students beyond academic instruction. It also suggests providing students and teachers with measurable and attainable goals to create experiences with and exposure to success. Further, there needs to a balance where all students are challenged and where the students who need additional assistance are provided with the appropriate scaffolds.
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Winton, Terry W. "Student and Teacher Perceptions of Standards-based Grading and Student Performance." Thesis, Lindenwood University, 2015. http://pqdtopen.proquest.com/#viewpdf?dispub=3728021.

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Assessing student learning has been part of education since the beginning of formalized schooling. Developments at the national, state, and local level have led to grading reforms over the past quarter century. The purpose of this study was to explore students’ and teachers’ perceptions of standards-based grading to determine if there was a significant difference on standardized tests scores between students graded using standards-based grading and students graded using traditional grading. Teachers and students from one Missouri high school were interviewed to determine their perceptions about standards-based grading. A stratified sample was utilized to select interviewees. Artifacts from the district were analyzed to determine the process in the implementation of standards-based grading. Quantitative data were obtained from the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to compare the Missouri Assessment Performance (MAP) Index scores and means on end-of-course exams from the participating high school with Missouri students. A t-test was utilized to determine the difference between the two means. The data revealed teachers’ perceptions of standards-based grading were varied, with only two teachers who preferred standards-based grading. Student perceptions were more positive than those of teachers, with 50% of students who were interviewed preferring standards-based grading. Quantitative data revealed no statistically significant difference between the means on end-of-course exams of students assessed with standards-based grading and students assessed with traditional grading in five of the eight subject areas studied.

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Banfield, Sara Richelle. "The effect of teacher misbehaviors on teacher credibility and affect." Morgantown, W. Va. : [West Virginia University Libraries], 2003. http://etd.wvu.edu/templates/showETD.cfm?recnum=3098.

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Muir, Ross A. "Investigating teacher work and overall impact on wellbeing: A secondary school case study." Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 2019. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/127642/2/Ross_Muir_Thesis.pdf.

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This research investigated teacher work and the related impact on wellbeing. Conducted in a single secondary school site, it captures the perceptions of a range of teachers regarding the impact of educational reform and policy in this context. The significance of school culture, relationships and self-determination theory for teachers are discussed as key factors affecting teacher wellbeing in their work environment.

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Riekie, Helen Mary. "Student wellbeing, resilience and moral identity: Does the school climate have an impact?" Thesis, Curtin University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/1366.

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The overarching aim of this study was to examine the impact of school climate on students’ wellbeing, resilience and moral identity. Two questionnaires, one to assess school climate and another to assess the three outcomes, were administered to a sample of 618 students from 15 South Australian independent schools. The hypothesised relationships were investigated using structural equation modelling. The results could guide schools in building environments that engender positive, resilient citizens with strong moral identities.

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Seton, Steven S. "Teacher cognition the effects of prior experience on becoming a teacher /." Connect to full text, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/2123/1864.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney, 2007.
Title from title screen (viewed 16th July, 2007). Submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy to the Faculty of Education and Social Work, University of Sydney. Degree awarded 2007. Includes bibliographical references. Also issued in print.

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