Student-teacher has been regarded as a crucial factor to explain various student academic
measures. Recent body of literature indicated that students reported measures for
relationship with their teachers are better predictor for their academic performances than
teacher reported ones. The current study attempted to investigate whether or not the
relationship between teacher reported student-teacher relationship and academic
understanding are mediated by student reported student teacher relationship. In addition,
there two additional purposes were addressed. First, this study explored to test if how well
teachers’ job satisfaction factor can predict teacher perceived student-teacher relationship.
Second, this study also took a look at the relationship between students’ peer and parental
trust and students’ perceived student-teacher relationships. To achieve these study purposes,
63 classes from 21 junior high school students were sampled. Teachers from 63 classes and
all the students in those classes were participated in this study. Total of 1930 students’ data
were finally analyzed from 1965 students. The research results indicated that the student
perceived student-teacher relationship was fully mediating between teacher perceived
student-teacher relationship and academic understanding factor. This means student
perceived student-teacher relationship is, in fact, crucial factor in terms of explaining student
academic measures. Additionally, teachers’ job satisfaction was a significant factor to predict
teacher perceived student-teacher relationship and also peer and parental trust was
significant predictor for explaining student perceived student-teacher relationship.
Conclusively, student perceived data for relationship with their teachers are better measure
for understanding their academic measures. However, teacher perceived relationships with
their students also should not be disregarded in educational settings.