Relationships
The quality of relationships within a school is one of the most consistent predictors of student engagement.
This collection examines how student-teacher relationships, peer connectedness, sense of belonging and family involvement shape whether students feel safe, valued and motivated to participate.
It pays particular attention to autonomy support, perspective-taking and behaviour management — not as a disciplinary function, but through its relational impact on the conditions for engagement.
School climate, student engagement and academic achievement across school sectors in Australia.
- Tomaszewski, W., Xiang, N., & Huang, Y.
- 2024
This study picks up where much of the school sectors debate in Australia has stalled — at the level of NAPLAN scores — and asks a more searching question:...
Perceived teacher support, student engagement, and academic achievement: a meta-analysis.
- Tao, Y., Meng, Y., Gao, Z., & Yang, X
- 2022
This meta-analysis synthesises 71 empirical studies to answer three connected questions: how strongly does perceived teacher support relate to academic...
Impact of school-based interventions for building school belonging in adolescence: a systematic review.
- Allen, K.-A., Jamshidi, N., Berger, E., Reupert, A., Wurf, G., & May, F.
- 2022
This systematic review addresses a gap that sits at the heart of the belonging literature: while research consistently shows that sense of school belonging is...
School Staff, Parent, Carer and Community Partnerships in Victoria’s Public Schools.” What the Profession Needs Now for the Future, Discussion Paper 3.
- Longmuir, F., Delany, T., Lampert, J., & Wilkinson, J.
- 2025
This is the third in a series of discussion papers commissioned by the AEU Victoria to examine what Victoria's public school system needs to change. This paper...
A Multidimensional and Multilevel Examination of Student Engagement and Secondary School Teachers’ Use of Classroom Management Practices
- Kristine E. Larson, Elise T. Pas, Jessika H. Bottiani, Joseph M. Kush, and Catherine P. Bradshaw
- 2021
This large-scale quantitative study investigated how secondary school teachers' classroom management practices relate to multiple dimensions of student...