Abstract
There is a need for an instrument that assesses student-instructor relationships as many experts speculate that close, non-threatening relationships between students and instructors predict positive achievement orientations, academic progress and success. In this paper, we present reliability and additional validity data concerning the Student-Instructor Relationship Scale, a 36-item inventory we developed that taps student-instructor relationship connectedness and anxiety. In the first study, college students completed this instrument twice over a 3-4 week time period and the instrument subscales possessed good test-retest reliability. In the second study, the subscales of the SIRS were associated with student perceptions of test anxiety in a randomly determined class. As predicted, student-instructor connectedness was negatively associated with test anxiety and student-instructor anxiety was positively associated with this construct. Study implications and suggestions for future research are offered.
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Creasey, Gary; Jarvis, Pat; and Knapcik, Elyse
(2009)
"A Measure to Assess Student-Instructor Relationships,"
International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning:
Vol. 3:
No.
2, Article 14.
Available at: https://doi.org/10.20429/ijsotl.2009.030214
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