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Students' evocative impact on teacher instruction and teacher-child relationships: Theoretical background and an overview of previous research
Classroom research has typically focused on the role of teaching practices and the quality of instruction in children’s academic performance, motivation and adjustment—in other words, classroom interactions initiated by the teacher. The present article presents a model of classroom interactions initiated by the child, that is, the notion that a child’s characteristics and active efforts may evoke different instructional patterns and responses among teachers. Then follows a review of previous research on the role of children’s academic performance, their motivation and their socio-emotional character...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 16, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Nurmi, J.-E., Kiuru, N. Tags: Special section: Student effects on teacher behaviors and attitudes Source Type: research

Children evoke similar affective and instructional responses from their teachers and mothers
In the present study, we examined the extent to which the responses of teachers and mothers toward a particular child are similar in respect to their instructional support and affect, and whether child characteristics predict these responses. The data of 373 Finnish child–teacher–mother triads (178 girls, 195 boys) were analysed. Teachers and mothers reported their instructional support and affective responses toward a child in the school/homework context in Grades 1, 2, 3, and 4. At the beginning of Grade 1, the children’s performance in reading and math was tested, and teachers evaluated the children&rs...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 16, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Silinskas, G., Dietrich, J., Pakarinen, E., Kiuru, N., Aunola, K., Lerkkanen, M.-K., Hirvonen, R., Muotka, J., Nurmi, J.-E. Tags: Special section: Student effects on teacher behaviors and attitudes Source Type: research

Focusing on teacher-student interactions eliminates the negative impact of students' disruptive behavior on teacher perceptions
This study tests the impact of a randomly assigned professional development coaching intervention (MyTeachingPartner-Secondary; MTP-S) on teacher projections of their students’ educational attainment. Results indicate that students who report more behavior problems in the Fall of the academic year are projected by teachers to have lower future educational attainment in the Spring of the academic year. However, analyses further indicate that participation in the MTP-S intervention moderates the association between Fall student behavior problems and teachers’ Spring projections for student attainment, such that t...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 16, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Hafen, C. A., Ruzek, E. A., Gregory, A., Allen, J. P., Mikami, A. Y. Tags: Special section: Student effects on teacher behaviors and attitudes Source Type: research

Reciprocal relations between student-teacher conflict, children's social skills and externalizing behavior: A three-wave longitudinal study from preschool to third grade
In this study, we addressed this by means of a three-wave cross-lagged longitudinal study from preschool to third grade, including measures of social skills, externalizing behavior and student–teacher conflict. Bidirectional relations were observed between student–teacher conflict and social skills from first grade to third grade, and between student–teacher conflict and externalizing behavior between preschool and first grade. However, results from a model including both social skills and externalizing behavior suggested that externalizing behavior is a stronger predictor of conflicted student–teac...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 16, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Skalicka, V., Stenseng, F., Wichstrom, L. Tags: Special section: Student effects on teacher behaviors and attitudes Source Type: research

The effects of children's reading skills and interest on teacher perceptions of children's skills and individualized support
This study examined the effects of children’s reading skills and interest in reading-related tasks on teacher perceptions of children’s literacy skills (reading and spelling) and the respective individualized support for children during the first two years of formal schooling. The participants were 334 children and their classroom teachers. Identical measures were administered at three time points (at the beginning of Grade 1 and at the end of Grades 1 and 2). Children’s reading skills were assessed with the word reading fluency test, and their interest in reading was assessed with self-reports. Also, tea...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 16, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Kikas, E., Silinskas, G., Soodla, P. Tags: Special section: Student effects on teacher behaviors and attitudes Source Type: research

Elementary school teachers adapt their instructional support according to students' academic skills: A variable and person-oriented approach
This study examined the longitudinal associations between children’s academic skills and the instructional support teachers gave individual students. A total of 253 Finnish children were tested on reading and math skills twice in the first grade and once in the second grade. The teachers of these children rated the instructional support that they gave each child in reading and mathematics. The results showed that the poorer the student’s reading and math skills were, the more support and attention the student received from his or her teacher later on. However, instructional support did not contribute positively...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 16, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Kiuru, N., Nurmi, J.-E., Leskinen, E., Torppa, M., Poikkeus, A.-M., Lerkkanen, M.-K., Niemi, P. Tags: Special section: Student effects on teacher behaviors and attitudes Source Type: research

Introduction to the special section on student effects on teachers' behaviors and attitudes
A special section of the International Journal of Behavioral Development (IJBD) devoted to the topic "Student effects on teacher behaviours and attitudes." (Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development)
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - August 16, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Nurmi, J.-E., Kiuru, N. Tags: Special section: Student effects on teacher behaviors and attitudes Source Type: research

Computerized sociometric assessment for preschool children
In preschool classes, sociometric peer ratings are used to measure children’s peer relationships. The current study examined a computerized version of preschool sociometric ratings. The psychometric properties were compared of computerized sociometric ratings and traditional peer ratings for preschoolers. The distributions, inter-item correlations, and reliabilities of sociometric scores were comparable between the computerized assessment and traditional assessment. The computerized assessment provided additional data for further analysis of the peer evaluation process. Therefore, computerized peer ratings are a prom...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 2, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Endedijk, H. M., Cillessen, A. H. N. Tags: Methods and Measures Source Type: research

Child reactivity moderates the over-time association between mother-child conflict quality and externalizing problems
Constructive parent–child conflict interactions that teach children to problem-solve and negotiate can enhance children’s social adjustment. This paper identifies constructive and destructive qualities of mother–child conflict and explores whether child temperament moderated associations with changes in externalizing problems over time. One hundred and ninety mothers and their 5- to 7-year-old children participated in a laboratory conflict discussion rated on aspects of maternal sensitivity, child mood, and mothers’ and children’s contemptuous and planning comments. Mothers also reported on ch...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 2, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Nelson, J. A. Tags: Reports Source Type: research

Children's negative emotionality combined with poor self-regulation affects allostatic load in adolescence
The present study examined the concurrent and prospective, longitudinal effects of childhood negative emotionality and self-regulation on allostatic load (AL), a physiological indicator of chronic stress. We hypothesized that negative emotionality in combination with poor self-regulation would predict elevated AL. Mothers reported on children’s emotionality (N = 239, 116 males) at age 9, and self-regulation was measured at age 9 using a standard behavioural index of delay of gratification. AL was measured at ages 9 and 17. The AL measure captured hypothalamic pituitary adrenal axis, sympathetic adrenal medullary syst...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 2, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Dich, N., Doan, S., Evans, G. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Anticipating their future: Adolescent values for the future predict adult behaviors
Adolescent future values—beliefs about what will matter to them in the future—may shape their adult behavior. Utilizing a national longitudinal British sample, this study examined whether adolescent future values in six domains (i.e., family responsibility, full-time job, personal responsibility, autonomy, civic responsibility, and hedonistic privilege) predicted adult social roles, civic behaviors, and alcohol use. Future values positively predicted behaviors within the same domain; fewer cross-domain associations were evident. Civic responsibility positively predicted adult civic behaviors, but negatively pre...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 2, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Finlay, A. K., Wray-Lake, L., Warren, M., Maggs, J. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

Self-regulation among youth in four Western cultures: Is there an adolescence-specific structure of the Selection-Optimization-Compensation (SOC) model?
We address how to conceptualize and measure intentional self-regulation (ISR) among adolescents from four cultures by assessing whether ISR (conceptualized by the SOC model of Selection, Optimization, and Compensation) is represented by three factors (as with adult samples) or as one "adolescence-specific" factor. A total of 4,057 14- and 18-year-old youth in Canada, Germany, Iceland, and the US participated. Confirmatory factor analyses did not confirm a tripartite model of SOC in any sample, whereas a single (nine-item) composite fit in all samples. A partial weak factorial invariance model showed a roughly equivalent me...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 2, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Gestsdottir, S., Geldhof, G. J., Paus, T., Freund, A. M., Adalbjarnardottir, S., Lerner, J. V., Lerner, R. M. Tags: Articles Source Type: research

24-month-olds use conceptual similarity to solve new problems after a delay
In this experiment, we used the deferred imitation paradigm to assess 24-month-olds’ ability to use conceptual similarity to solve new problems after a delay. Infants in the experimental condition participated in four sessions that were each separated by 24 h. In Session 1, the experimenter modeled three target actions using one set of stimuli and in Session 2, infants were tested with a novel set of stimuli that could be used to perform the same target actions. To emphasize the functional similarity of the two sets of stimuli, the experimenter provided the same unique verbal label for them during the demonstration (...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 2, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Hayne, H., Gross, J. Tags: Special Section: 20 Years After ' The Ontogeny of Human Memory: a Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective Source Type: research

Memory for complex visual objects but not for allocentric locations during the first year of life
Although human infants demonstrate early competence to retain visual information, memory capacities during infancy remain largely undocumented. In three experiments, we used a Visual Paired Comparison (VPC) task to examine abilities to encode identity (Experiment 1) and spatial properties (Experiments 2a and 2b) of unfamiliar complex visual patterns during the first year of life. In the first experiment, 6- and 9-month-old infants were familiarized with visual arrays composed of four abstract patterns arranged in a square configuration. Recognition memory was evaluated by presenting infants with the familiarized array pair...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 2, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Dupierrix, E., Hillairet de Boisferon, A., Barbeau, E., Pascalis, O. Tags: Special Section: 20 Years After ' The Ontogeny of Human Memory: a Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective Source Type: research

Improvement of allocentric spatial memory resolution in children from 2 to 4 years of age
Allocentric spatial memory, the memory for locations coded in relation to objects comprising our environment, is a fundamental component of episodic memory and is dependent on the integrity of the hippocampal formation in adulthood. Previous research from different laboratories reported that basic allocentric spatial memory abilities are reliably observed in children after 2 years of age. Based on work performed in monkeys and rats, we had proposed that the functional maturation of direct entorhinal cortex projections to the CA1 field of the hippocampus might underlie the emergence of basic allocentric spatial memory. We a...
Source: International Journal of Behavioral Development - June 2, 2015 Category: Child Development Authors: Lambert, F. R., Lavenex, P., Lavenex, P. B. Tags: Special Section: 20 Years After ' The Ontogeny of Human Memory: a Cognitive Neuroscience Perspective Source Type: research