Do teacher-student relations affect students' well-being at school?

Abstract

Four out of five students in OECD countries agree or strongly agree that they feel happy at school or that they feel like they belong at school. Teacher-student relations are strongly associated with both performance in mathematics and students’ happiness and sense of belonging at school. On average across OECD countries, 71% of students attend schools whose principals reported that teachers value the social and emotional development of their students as much as their students’ academic proficiency.