Taking It to the Next Level: A Field Experiment to Improve Instructor-Student Relationships in College

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dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Carly D.en
dc.contributor.authorScott, Whitneyen
dc.contributor.authorGottfried, Michael A.en
dc.date.accessed2020-10-28en
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-11T18:00:45Zen
dc.date.available2021-10-11T18:00:45Zen
dc.date.issued2019-03-27en
dc.description.abstractCompeting in today’s workforce increasingly requires earning a college degree, yet almost half of all enrolled undergraduates do not graduate. As the costs of dropping out of college continue to rise, instructor-student relationships may be a critical yet underexplored avenue for improving college student outcomes. The present study attempts to replicate and extend a prior study that improved teacher-student relationships at the high school level in a college setting. In this registered report, we test whether an intervention that highlights instructor-student commonalities improves similarity, instructor-student relationships, academic achievement, and persistence for undergraduate students in a large, diverse public university. We found that the intervention increased perceptions of similarity but not downstream relational or academic outcomes. Our exploratory analyses provide one of the first investigations suggesting that instructor-student relationships predict an array of consequential student outcomes in college. These findings show a notable relationship gap: instructors perceived less positive relationships with certain student groups, but on average, students perceived equally positive relationships with their instructors.en
dc.description.sponsorshipAmerican Educational Research Associationen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/2332858419839707en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/105235en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherSAGEen
dc.rightsCreative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 Internationalen
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/en
dc.subjectcollege, instructionen
dc.subjectacademic achievementen
dc.subjectinstructor-student relationshipsen
dc.subjectacademic interventionen
dc.titleTaking It to the Next Level: A Field Experiment to Improve Instructor-Student Relationships in Collegeen
dc.typeArticleen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten

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