School and teacher effects on students' school experiences influence social and educational trajectories more than their effects on academic achievement measures¶

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Currency · newest study 2026 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · recheck by 2031: baselines and conditions change

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q2 i? Consortium research found that school and teacher effects on students' school experiences, measured on surveys, influence trajectories from early childhood through adulthood even more than effects on academic achievement measures. → Porter 2026

Evidence¶

Porter 2026¶

Porter, S., Ramirez Richter, R., de la Torre, M., & Allensworth, E.M. (2026). Research and Engagement for Systems Transformation: Building Knowledge, Capacity, and Coherence for Equitable Education Systems. UChicago Consortium on School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu

q2 · i? · theoretical · r2

The agenda reports, citing its own prior Consortium research (endnote 3, Jackson et al. 2024), that "school and teacher effects on students' school experiences" influence trajectories "even more so than school and teacher impacts on measures of academic achievement." No effect size is printed in this document.

"Consortium research has shown that school and teacher effects on students' school experiences, as measured on surveys, influence students' social and educational trajectories from early childhood through adulthood even more so than school and teacher impacts on measures of academic achievement."

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