Linking Teacher Emotions, Teaching Behaviors, and Student Outcomes: A Global Study

• In Event: The Role of Teachers in Enhancing Student Outcomes

Abstract

This study addresses the significance of teacher emotions, specifically enjoyment and anger, for three important student outcomes: self-efficacy, interest, and performance. Teacher emotion effects on student outcomes are proposed to be mediated via three key facets of instructional quality: cognitive activation, classroom management, and teacher-student relationship. Using data from the Global Teaching InSights study (GTI; OECD, 2018a), which includes more than 640 secondary math teachers and their approximately 14,600 students from eight countries around the world, we employed latent multilevel structural equation modeling to analyze the proposed indirect effects of teacher emotions on student outcomes via instructional quality. Our findings underscore that teacher emotions play a pivotal role in shaping effective teaching practices, thereby significantly influencing student outcomes.

Authors

• Marina Elena Pfeifer, University of Munich

• Anne C. Frenzel, University of Munich