Children's drawings provide a new perspective on teacher–child relationship quality and school adjustment

Examining Student-teacher Relationship from Students’ Point of View: Italian Adaptation and Validation of the Young Children’s Appraisal of Teacher Support Questionnaire

“…Warmth has a significant correlation with STRS-Closeness; Conflict correlates with STRS-Closeness and STRS-Conflict. The moderate degree of correlation observed is confirmed in the literature [21,40,37], which also shows the possible fluctuation of correlation strength according to the level of school attended. It is interesting to note how the Conflict dimension of the Y-CATS is the only one to correlate with both STRS dimensions.…”

“…There is, however, wide recognition [21] of how important it is to study the quality of the relationship between teacher and student in order to be able to foresee or infer the presence of general issues related to the student's behavior, or to possible anxiety and internalizing disorders.…”

Pupils’ Drawings as a Research Tool in Mathematical Problem-Solving Lessons

“…Harrison, Clarke, and Ungerer (2007) summarize that a positive teacher-pupil relation advances both pupils' social accommodation and their orientation to school, and it is thus an important foundation for the pupils' academic career in the future.…”

“…As a summary, drawings seem to be a versatile way to collect information about emotional atmosphere in mathematics lessons (see also Harrison et al, 2007). The method offers a single teacher the possibility to obtain and evaluate information about how his or her pupils experience mathematics and mathematics lessons.…”

There’s a creepy guy on the other end at Google!: engaging middle school students in a drawing activity to elicit their mental models of Google

“…Several studies that have used drawing activities such as these have confirmed the usefulness of this technique to uncover people's mental models (Devine-Wright and Devine-Wright 2009; Zhang 2008b), particularly when working with children (Dinet and Kitajima 2011). Underscoring the relative advantages of engaging children in a drawing activity, one study (Harrison et al 2007) found that young children's (6-year-olds) drawings of themselves with their teacher at school provided a better indicator of the emotional quality of the child-teacher relationship than the children's verbal responses to questions directly aiming to elicit their feelings about their teacher.…”