High-trust schools are hypothesized to show greater teacher commitment, orientation to innovation, parent outreach, and collective responsibility¶

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Currency · newest study 1996 · checked against its sources 2026-10-08 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2001: baselines and conditions change

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q2 i? The study hypothesizes that schools with high levels of trust produce conditions conducive to broad-based school improvement, measured through four teacher survey scales: commitment, orientation to innovation, outreach to parents, and collective responsibility for student welfare. → Bryk 1996

Evidence¶

Bryk 1996¶

Bryk, A. S., & Schneider, B. (1996). Social Trust: A Moral Resource for School Improvement. University of Chicago, Center for School Improvement (draft). https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/social-trust-moral-resource-school-improvement

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The article describes four outcome scales constructed from the elementary teacher surveys (commitment, orientation toward innovation, teachers' outreach to parents, and collective responsibility) to test consequences of trust; the detailed results of these analyses fall beyond the truncated portion of the supplied text.

"We hypothesized that schools with high levels of trust produce a set of conditions conducive to broad-based school improvement."

Discussion¶

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