Interactional quality in middle schools: Latent profiles and their associations with teacher, classroom, and school compositional factors.

ABSTRACT: High quality teacher-student interactions are critical for the healthy social-emotional, behavioral, and academic development of middle school students. However, few studies have explored patterns of teacher-student interactions in middle school classrooms or the relation between teacher-, classroom-, and school-level factors and patterns of interaction. The current study employed latent profile analyses (LPA) to identify patterns of teacher-student interactional quality in a sample of 334 teachers from 41 schools serving middle school students within the Mid-Atlantic region of the U.S. Three distinct profiles of teacher-student interactional quality were identified that were characteristic of higher, lower, and intermediate quality and were differentially related to teacher, classroom, an

SUBMITTER: Camacho DA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9360606 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature