Victor Battistich
Biographic Data
| ID | 5180963 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Victor Battistich |
| GIVEN NAMES | Victor |
| FAMILY NAME | Battistich |
| SIGNATURE | BATTISTICH V |
| AFFILIATIONS | Developmental Studies Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 189 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Effects of an Elementary School Intervention on Students' “Connectedness” to School and Social Adjustment During Middle School
Effects of the Child Development Project on Students' Drug Use and Other Problem Behaviors
A six-district study of educational change
Caring school communities
There recently has been a renewed appreciation of the importance of social context to effective schools. This article describes an ongoing program of research on schools as caring communities. The research spans about a decade and a half and involves a diverse set of elementary schools from across the United States. The findings indicate that sense of school community can be enhanced for both students and teachers, that it is associated with a wi…
Say Yes First
This study was based on a 5-year, comprehensive educational and case-management approach to drug prevention that involved 859 students of the class of the year 2000 (41.6% Hispanic) as they progressedfrom 4th through 8th grade. Among a longitudinal, 4-year cohort, program participation was associated significantly with academic achievementfor all students and was associated negatively with frequency of drug use among high-risk students. The preva…
The relationship between students' sense of their school as a community and their involvement in problem behaviors
OBJECTIVES: There has been relatively little research on the contributions of school context to developmental outcomes. This study examined relationships between students' sense of the school as a community and their involvement in problem behaviors. METHODS: Participants were an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of 1434 fifth and sixth grade students from 24 elementary schools around the United States. Data were analyzed by hierarc…
Teacher practices associated with students' sense of the classroom as a community
Prevention Effects of the Child Development Project
The Child Development Project is a comprehensive school program to reduce risk and bolster protective factors among children. It includes classroom, school, and family involvement elements that, collectively, help schools become caring communities of learners-environments that are characterized by supportive social relationships, a sense of common purpose, and a commitment to prosocial values; that are responsive to children's developmental and s…
Creating classrooms that students experience as communities
Although prior research has shown sense of community in schools to be related to many positive student characteristics, effective interventions that can create or enhance this sense have not been demonstrated. In this paper we describe a comprehensive elementary school program, implemented by teachers, that was successful in creating a sense of community in the classrooms, as perceived by students. The program was implemented in three elementary …
Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students' Attitudes, Motives, and Performance
Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine relationships between students' sense of school community, poverty level, and student attitudes, motives, beliefs, and behavior among a diverse sample of 24 elementary schools. Major findings were that: (a) within schools, individual students' sense of school community was significantly associated with almost all of the student outcome measures, (b) Between schools, school-level community and pover…
Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students’ Attitudes, Motives, and Performance
Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine relationships between students’ sense of school community, poverty level, and student attitudes, motives, beliefs, and behavior among a diverse sample of 24 elementary schools. Major findings were that: (a) within schools, individual students’ sense of school community was significantly associated with almost all of the student outcome measures, (b) Between schools, school-level community and pover…
Enhancing Children’s Prosocial Behavior in the Classroom
A program designed to enhance children’s prosocial development was conducted in three suburban elementary schools for 5 consecutive years, focusing primarily on a single cohort of children as it moved from kindergarten through fourth grade. Repeated observations were conducted each year to assess program implementation and student interpersonal behavior in classrooms in the three “program” schools and in three “comparison” schools. Analyses of th…
Enhancing Children's Prosocial Behavior in the Classroom
A program designed to enhance children's prosocial development was conducted in three suburban elementary schools for 5 consecutive years, focusing primarily on a single cohort of children as it moved from kindergarten through fourth grade. Repeated observations were conducted each year to assess program implementation and student interpersonal behavior in classrooms in the three "program" schools and in three "comparison" schools. Analyses of th…
Perceiver, target, and situational influences on social cognition
Gender differences in autonomous and social achievement orientations
This research examined gender differences in orientations toward autonomous and social achievement. Three independent samples of subjects (total N= 359 males and 574 females) completed measures of achievement orientation (including Strumpfer's [1975] Autonomous Achievement Values and Social Achievement Values scales) and relevant cognitive, affective, and behavioral variables. Correlational and factor analyses clearly identified distinct autonomo…
Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students’ Attitudes, Motives, and Performance
Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine relationships between students’ sense of school community, poverty level, and student attitudes, motives, beliefs, and behavior among a diverse sample of 24 elementary schools. Major findings were that: (a) within schools, individual students’ sense of school community was significantly associated with almost all of the student outcome measures, (b) Between schools, school-level community and pover…
The relationship between students' sense of their school as a community and their involvement in problem behaviors
OBJECTIVES: There has been relatively little research on the contributions of school context to developmental outcomes. This study examined relationships between students' sense of the school as a community and their involvement in problem behaviors. METHODS: Participants were an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of 1434 fifth and sixth grade students from 24 elementary schools around the United States. Data were analyzed by hierarc…
A six-district study of educational change
Prevention Effects of the Child Development Project
The Child Development Project is a comprehensive school program to reduce risk and bolster protective factors among children. It includes classroom, school, and family involvement elements that, collectively, help schools become caring communities of learners-environments that are characterized by supportive social relationships, a sense of common purpose, and a commitment to prosocial values; that are responsive to children's developmental and s…
Creating classrooms that students experience as communities
Although prior research has shown sense of community in schools to be related to many positive student characteristics, effective interventions that can create or enhance this sense have not been demonstrated. In this paper we describe a comprehensive elementary school program, implemented by teachers, that was successful in creating a sense of community in the classrooms, as perceived by students. The program was implemented in three elementary …
Teacher practices associated with students' sense of the classroom as a community
Enhancing Children’s Prosocial Behavior in the Classroom
A program designed to enhance children’s prosocial development was conducted in three suburban elementary schools for 5 consecutive years, focusing primarily on a single cohort of children as it moved from kindergarten through fourth grade. Repeated observations were conducted each year to assess program implementation and student interpersonal behavior in classrooms in the three “program” schools and in three “comparison” schools. Analyses of th…
Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students' Attitudes, Motives, and Performance
Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine relationships between students' sense of school community, poverty level, and student attitudes, motives, beliefs, and behavior among a diverse sample of 24 elementary schools. Major findings were that: (a) within schools, individual students' sense of school community was significantly associated with almost all of the student outcome measures, (b) Between schools, school-level community and pover…
Enhancing Children's Prosocial Behavior in the Classroom
A program designed to enhance children's prosocial development was conducted in three suburban elementary schools for 5 consecutive years, focusing primarily on a single cohort of children as it moved from kindergarten through fourth grade. Repeated observations were conducted each year to assess program implementation and student interpersonal behavior in classrooms in the three "program" schools and in three "comparison" schools. Analyses of th…
Gender differences in autonomous and social achievement orientations
This research examined gender differences in orientations toward autonomous and social achievement. Three independent samples of subjects (total N= 359 males and 574 females) completed measures of achievement orientation (including Strumpfer's [1975] Autonomous Achievement Values and Social Achievement Values scales) and relevant cognitive, affective, and behavioral variables. Correlational and factor analyses clearly identified distinct autonomo…
Perceiver, target, and situational influences on social cognition
Enhancing Children’s Prosocial Behavior in the Classroom
A program designed to enhance children’s prosocial development was conducted in three suburban elementary schools for 5 consecutive years, focusing primarily on a single cohort of children as it moved from kindergarten through fourth grade. Repeated observations were conducted each year to assess program implementation and student interpersonal behavior in classrooms in the three “program” schools and in three “comparison” schools. Analyses of th…
Enhancing Children's Prosocial Behavior in the Classroom
A program designed to enhance children's prosocial development was conducted in three suburban elementary schools for 5 consecutive years, focusing primarily on a single cohort of children as it moved from kindergarten through fourth grade. Repeated observations were conducted each year to assess program implementation and student interpersonal behavior in classrooms in the three "program" schools and in three "comparison" schools. Analyses of th…
Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students' Attitudes, Motives, and Performance
Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine relationships between students' sense of school community, poverty level, and student attitudes, motives, beliefs, and behavior among a diverse sample of 24 elementary schools. Major findings were that: (a) within schools, individual students' sense of school community was significantly associated with almost all of the student outcome measures, (b) Between schools, school-level community and pover…
Schools as Communities, Poverty Levels of Student Populations, and Students’ Attitudes, Motives, and Performance
Hierarchical linear modeling was used to examine relationships between students’ sense of school community, poverty level, and student attitudes, motives, beliefs, and behavior among a diverse sample of 24 elementary schools. Major findings were that: (a) within schools, individual students’ sense of school community was significantly associated with almost all of the student outcome measures, (b) Between schools, school-level community and pover…
Teacher practices associated with students' sense of the classroom as a community
Prevention Effects of the Child Development Project
The Child Development Project is a comprehensive school program to reduce risk and bolster protective factors among children. It includes classroom, school, and family involvement elements that, collectively, help schools become caring communities of learners-environments that are characterized by supportive social relationships, a sense of common purpose, and a commitment to prosocial values; that are responsive to children's developmental and s…
Creating classrooms that students experience as communities
Although prior research has shown sense of community in schools to be related to many positive student characteristics, effective interventions that can create or enhance this sense have not been demonstrated. In this paper we describe a comprehensive elementary school program, implemented by teachers, that was successful in creating a sense of community in the classrooms, as perceived by students. The program was implemented in three elementary …
Caring school communities
There recently has been a renewed appreciation of the importance of social context to effective schools. This article describes an ongoing program of research on schools as caring communities. The research spans about a decade and a half and involves a diverse set of elementary schools from across the United States. The findings indicate that sense of school community can be enhanced for both students and teachers, that it is associated with a wi…
Say Yes First
This study was based on a 5-year, comprehensive educational and case-management approach to drug prevention that involved 859 students of the class of the year 2000 (41.6% Hispanic) as they progressedfrom 4th through 8th grade. Among a longitudinal, 4-year cohort, program participation was associated significantly with academic achievementfor all students and was associated negatively with frequency of drug use among high-risk students. The preva…
The relationship between students' sense of their school as a community and their involvement in problem behaviors
OBJECTIVES: There has been relatively little research on the contributions of school context to developmental outcomes. This study examined relationships between students' sense of the school as a community and their involvement in problem behaviors. METHODS: Participants were an ethnically and socioeconomically diverse sample of 1434 fifth and sixth grade students from 24 elementary schools around the United States. Data were analyzed by hierarc…
Effects of the Child Development Project on Students' Drug Use and Other Problem Behaviors
A six-district study of educational change
Effects of an Elementary School Intervention on Students' “Connectedness” to School and Social Adjustment During Middle School
Psychology (15 works) · Early Childhood Education and Development (12 works) · Social Psychology (12 works) · Developmental psychology (9 works) · Medicine (9 works) · Social Psychology (9 works) · Parental Involvement in Education (8 works) · Mathematics education (7 works) · Academic achievement (6 works) · Prosocial behavior (6 works)