Nature Preserve

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Sense of Relatedness as a Factor in Children’s Academic Engagement and performance

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Relatedness promotes engagement inthe classroom…

It stimulates a child’s interest and enthusiasm…

and triggers effort, persistence and participation in classroom activities.

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Sense of Relatedness

• self esteem• self efficacy• success• achievement values• achievement goals• engagement• effort in classroom• grades

Affects a Child’s:

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“I know the grades are low…I wasn’t engaged in the social environment.”

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Relatedness as a Predictor of Children’s

Engagement and Learning

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Past Research

Self Perceptions are predictors of motivation and performance in school.

Social factors affect children’s motivation

Motivation is impacted by relationship withparents, teachers and peers.

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1.Examine the role of relatedness in classroom engagement and performance.

2. Examine the effects of relatedness to specific social partners- teachers, parents and peers.

3. Examine gender and age difference in effects of relatedness to specific social partners.

4. Examine the cumulative effects of relatedness to specific social partners.

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Method

Participants- Sample equally divided by gender including children through sixth grade in a suburban-rural district composed mostly of middleclass and working families. They were 95% Caucasian, 5% Hispanic, African American, Asian or mixed race.

Procedures- Students completed questions by marking answers as questions were read aloud.

Teachers also reported on each student regarding emotional and behavioral engagement in the classroom. This was measured by a teacher’s perception of a student’s effort, attention and persistence.

Academic performance was measured by averaging reading,

language, spelling and math grades.

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If I can’t relate to my teacher…

Sense of Relatedness

I see pizzaIn my Future!

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Role of Relatedness in Classroom Engagement and

Performance

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Unique Contributions of Relatedness to Specific Social

Partners

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Differences as a Function of Age and Gender

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Profiles of Relatedness to Specific Social Partners

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Compensation Among Social Partners

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Engagement as a Potential Pathway of Influence

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Relatedness to Parents, Teachers, and Peers

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Implications for Practice

• building the quality of children’s relationships.

• interventions cannot target relatedness to only one social partner.

• relatedness to parents, teachers, and peers each play a unique role.

Priority for schools should be: