Psychology: Faculty Presentations (2009-2022)

Differential Ecologies of Teacher and Parent Warm Involvement: A Pattern-Centered Analysis of Students' Academic Engagement

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4-10-2021

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Students’ academic development is influenced by the differing social ecologies they inhabit, including the supportive interactions they experience with teachers and parents. To gain a more holistic understanding of how social contexts shape academic engagement during third-sixth grade, this study utilized a pattern-centered approach, in which median splits of teacher and parent reports of their involvement were used to create four social ecologies: (1) high teacher/parent support; (2) high teacher/low parent support; (3) low teacher/high parent support; and (4) low teacher/parent support. Results demonstrated that students belonging to ecologies with higher support from both adults had the highest levels of student- and teacher-reported engagement at both timepoints compared to students with high support from just one or neither adult.

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"Georgia Southern University faculty member, Nicolette P. Rickert co-presented Differential Ecologies of Teacher and Parent Warm Involvement: A Pattern-Centered Analysis of Students' Academic Engagement in the American Educational Research Association Conference (AERA), April 2021.

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American Educational Research Association Conference (AERA)

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