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Alcott, Benjamin – Research in Higher Education, 2017
Theory suggests that teacher encouragement can aid students' educational progress, but there are not yet quantitative inferential studies that assess its longer-term impact. With data from the Longitudinal Study of Young People in England (LSYPE), I use propensity-score matching to investigate whether encouragement influences the likelihood of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Behavior, Positive Reinforcement, Teacher Influence