Teachers,loosen up! How teachers can trigger interpersonally cooperative behavior in students at risk of academic failure |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Education, Utrecht University, Heidelberglaan 1, 3584 CS Utrecht, the Netherlands;2. Education and Child Studies, Leiden University, Wassenaarseweg 52, 2333 AK Leiden, the Netherlands |
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| Abstract: | Student cooperativeness underlies high quality teacher-student relationships, and has been positively associated with students' school engagement. Fostering cooperative rather than oppositional student behavior might be especially helpful for protecting at-risk students against academic failure. To understand how exactly students' cooperativeness can be fostered, we investigated the interpersonal behaviors of secondary school teachers and at-risk students during dyadic interactions (N = 82 dyads) in the context of positive teacher-student relationships. Using Continuous Assessment of Interpersonal Dynamics, moment-to-moment teacher and student behavior was captured in terms of interpersonal agency (dominance vs. submissiveness) and communion (opposition vs. cooperation). Time-series analyses were used to analyze interpersonal behavior within individuals, within dyads, and between dyads. Cooperative student behavior was most likely if teachers acted friendly and cooperatively and if teachers ‘loosened up’ their agency and the structure they imposed on the interaction repeatedly, which may give students more freedom to express themselves and to cooperate. |
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| Keywords: | At-risk students Dyadic teacher-student interaction Moment-to-moment interpersonal behavior Student cooperativeness Timeseries analysis |
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