TESSI: Teacher-Student Interaction and Stress in Finnish Classrooms

Finnish research data on classroom dynamics, stress, and learning outcomes. The dataset includes video recordings of classroom interaction, eye-tracking data, salivary cortisol samples from teachers and students, and survey responses from teachers, parents, and principals. It was created by researcher Eija Pakarinen to investigate behavioral and psychophysiological mechanisms in education.

Use Cases

• Analyzing teacher visual attention patterns based on eye-tracking recordings.
• Correlating salivary cortisol levels with student learning outcomes and behavior.
• Modeling the relationship between teacher-reported student skills and classroom interaction videos.
• Investigating the impact of home environment on child motivation based on parent survey data.
• Studying the effects of school leadership on teacher well-being using principal questionnaires.

Strengths

• Multimodal data collection includes video, physiological samples, and surveys.
• Annual participation of approximately 50 teachers and their classes from pre-school to 4th grade.
• Includes data on potential COVID 19 pandemic impacts from interviews.

Limitations

• Row count and file formats are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Eija Pakarinen

Collection Method

Annual study involving video recordings, eye-tracking, saliva samples, assessments, questionnaires, and interviews.

Time Range

unknown

Freshness

unknown

Geography

Finland (inferred from Finnish language description and context)