My Blog Of Knowledge: Bad Behavior Not Always Linked to Bad Grades

By Rick Nauert PhD Senior News Editor
Reviewed by John M. Grohol, Psy.D.on March 30, 2011

Bad Behavior Is Not Always Linked to Bad Grades A provocative new study challenges the common belief that students with poor behavior will invariably have poor grades.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina followed 350 students in seven at-risk schools over a five-year period and discovered that education includes both behavioral training and academics.

In the study, the scientists assessed both teacher perceptions of student behavior and academic achievement, as well as actual performance.

Surprisingly, they found that teachers were more likely to report that well-behaved students did better academically and expected more of them — even when some of these students were struggling with schoolwork.

At the same time, students who acted out in school were seen as having more academic difficulties, even though this was not always the case.

“Children are not well-served when teachers believe that teaching behavior requires different skills than teaching academics,” said lead author Bob Algozzine, Ph.D. “Or that teaching academics will magically improve behavior.”

The researchers concluded that it is important not to focus solely on improving academic or behavior problems in at-risk students, but to emphasize teaching both behavior and academic skills for these children.

“The take-away message in our work is that children have to be carefully taught academics and behavior if we want to see evidence of these accomplishments in school,” said Algozzine.

The study is published in the Journal of Positive Behavior Interventions.

Source: SAGE Publications

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