Student-teacher relationships and their influence on students’ motivation, engagement, and academic success at the university level

Abstract

Strong student-teacher relationships foster a supportive learning environment, boosting students' motivation and engagement in school. These positive connections are key drivers of academic success, as they encourage students to feel valued and understood. The objectives of the study were to identify the level of student-teacher relationships, students’ motivation, engagement, and academic success, and to analyze the student-teacher relationships and their influence on students’ motivation, engagement, and academic success at the university level. Students of all public and private universities in Lahore district was the population. The instruments of this research were questionnaires. The validity of the questionnaire was found through experts’ opinions and reliability through pilot testing. Descriptive and inferential statistics was used. SPSS was used to analyze the data. The findings of the study revealed that there was highly significant effect of student-teacher relationships, on students’ motivation, engagement, and academic success at the university level.