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. 2014 Feb;51(2):143-163.
doi: 10.1002/pits.21741. Epub 2013 Nov 12.

EFFECTS OF A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ON BEHAVIORAL ENGAGEMENT OF STUDENTS IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL

Anne Gregory  1 , Joseph P Allen  2 , Amori Y Mikami  3 , Christopher A Hafen  2 , Robert C Pianta  2
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EFFECTS OF A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ON BEHAVIORAL ENGAGEMENT OF STUDENTS IN MIDDLE AND HIGH SCHOOL

Anne Gregory et al. Psychol Sch. 2014 Feb.

Abstract

Student behavioral engagement is a key condition supporting academic achievement, yet student disengagement in middle and high schools is all too common. The current study used a randomized controlled design to test the efficacy of the My Teaching Partner-Secondary program to increase behavioral engagement. The program offers teachers personalized coaching and systematic feedback on teachers' interactions with students, based on systematic observation of videorecordings of teacher-student interactions in the classroom. The study found that intervention teachers had significantly higher increases, albeit to a modest degree, in student behavioral engagement in their classrooms after 1 year of involvement with the program compared to the teachers in the control group (explaining 4% of variance). In exploratory analyses, two dimensions of teachers' interactions with students-their focus on analysis and problem solving during instruction and their use of diverse instructional learning formats-acted as mediators of increased student engagement. The findings offer implications for new directions in teacher professional development and for understanding the classroom as a setting for adolescent development.

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Instructional learning formats mediating the effects of MTP on engagement. Note. *p < .05. **p < .01. Although not depicted here, fall Instructional Learning Formats and Student Engagement were controlled for in the model.
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Analysis and problem solving mediating the effects of MTP on engagement.
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