#  Quantitative Analysis of Working Conditions Survey 

 



 We combined a statewide survey of school working conditions (MassTeLLS) with demographic and student achievement data from Massachusetts and examined three primary outcomes: teacher satisfaction, teacher career intentions, and student achievement growth.

We found:

(1) that measures of the school environment explain away much of the apparent relationship between teacher satisfaction with their school and student demographic characteristics;

(2) that teachers are more satisfied and plan to stay longer in schools that have a positive work context, independent of the school’s student demographic characteristics;

(3) that the working conditions that predominate in predicting teachers’ job satisfaction and career plans are the social—the school’s culture, the principal’s leadership, and relationships with colleagues; and

(4) that favorable conditions of work predict higher rates of student academic growth, even when we compare schools serving demographically similar groups of students.

This work is available in *Teachers College Record,* October, 2012, *114*(10), 1 – 39*.*