Teacher-Student relationship quality as a barometer of teaching and learning effectiveness: Conceptualization and measurement.

Background: The Teacher-Student relationship (TSR) is instrumental for young children and adolescents' socio-emotional development and wellbeing as well as academic engagement and progress.

Aims: The primary aim of this study was to test the psychometric properties, including reliability and factorial, convergent, and predictive validity, of the Teacher-Student Relationship Quality Questionnaire (TSRQ-Q) with two samples of students.

Sample(s): Participants were 294 students from secondary schools in the East Midlands and the East of England.