Teacher-students Interaction and Students’ Academic Achievement: A Correlational Study at University Level

Abstract

This study was planned to find out correlation between teacher-student interaction and students’ academic achievement at university level. Objectives of the current study were: 1) to find out students’ perceptions about teacher-student interaction and correlation between teacher-student interaction and students’ academic achievement at university level. The study was co relational in nature. Students of University of Gujrat were the population of the study. Cluster random sampling technique was used to select 305 students from different departments of university of Gujrat. Questionnaire on teacher-student interaction (QTI) with four domains i.e., dominance, submission, opposition, and collaboration was adapted for data collection. Mean, standard deviation and Pearson correlation test were used for data analysis. The results indicated that the students who perceive that teacher-student interaction is of high level are less in numbers followed by the students with perception of low and medium level. Moreover, insignificant and weak relationship was found between teacher-student interaction and student’s academic achievement.