Research work exploring faculty–student relationships continues, and it provides deeper insights than course evaluation into the role of these relationships in promoting learning. All the work up to this point, in one way or another, confirms how important teacher–student relationships are. Sadly, it also attests to how often the relationships don't exist or are not positive. In this study, the questions related to how students perceive their relationships with faculty and what the most powerful predictors of those perceptions are.
