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Peer Support & Collaboration
Distribution of responses
How institutions vary
Middle 80% of the 10 institutions with enough responses. Social domain mean: 8.0.
Institution is a major factor here: weaker and stronger institutions are 2.3 points apart on this topic. Where a student studies shapes their experience more than the topic itself does.
What we ask
“I feel supported by my classmates.”
What students say, and why
Mixed-language grouping and perfectionism strain collaboration.
"Teachers put us in groups with others who don’t speak Danish, and I’m not a Danish teacher."
An unwritten rule to help each other; classmates share notes.
"It’s an unwritten rule: if someone needs help, we help each other."
"When I’m not in school, my friends send me information from class."
Representative, de-identified comments from the lowest- and highest-scoring responses, translated where needed.
Related insights
How we measure it
This is the topic-level average across its subtopics, on a 0-10 scale (higher is better), so an individual subtopic can score higher or lower than the topic shown here. Figures are scored responses from the last 12 months, mapped to the 2026 framework via the canonical question mapping; the cross-2020 figure on the Index uses the full response base. Movement compares the most recent six months with the prior six. Distribution bands: 0-4, >4-<8, 8-10. Cross-institution aggregate; no single institution identified; minimum group size applied.
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