Links Between Teachers’ Liking of Students, Peer Inclusion, and Students’ Academic Achievement: A Two-Wave Longitudinal Study

Journal of Youth and Adolescence

Volumn 49, Issue 3, 2020, Pages 747-756

  Sette, Stefania ^a   Gasser, Luciano ^b   Grütter, Jeanine ^c  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b Department of Teaching and Learning   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Academic achievement; Early adolescence; Peer inclusion; Teachers liking of students

Indexed keywords

ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT; ADOLESCENCE; ARTICLE; GROWTH CURVE; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; STUDENT; TEACHER; ACADEMIC SUCCESS; CHILD; FEMALE; MALE; PEER GROUP; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHOOL TEACHER; SOCIAL DISTANCE;

ACADEMIC SUCCESS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PEER GROUP; SCHOOL TEACHERS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; STUDENTS;

EID: 85067067089     PISSN: 00472891     EISSN: 15736601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10964-019-01048-5     Document Type: Article

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