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Learning Environment & Classroom Climate
Distribution of responses
How institutions vary
Middle 80% of the 48 institutions with enough responses. Social domain mean: 8.0.
Institution is a major factor here: weaker and stronger institutions are 2.2 points apart on this topic. Where a student studies shapes their experience more than the topic itself does.
What we ask
“I feel respected by my peers and teachers.”
What students say, and why
A climate built on drinking and crude talk, or no chemistry and no time to fix it.
"The community is built too much on drinking and sexual talk."
"There’s no chemistry in the class, and we’re too busy for anyone to fix the collaboration."
Room for everyone, with daily mutual help.
"We have room for everyone and help each other every day."
"We’re good to each other, and you get the help you need."
Representative, de-identified comments from the lowest- and highest-scoring responses, translated where needed.
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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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