The latest study from the Effective Pre-School and Primary Education 3-11 Project looked at the way classroom practices and factors at school level influenced children's academic and social and behavioural development.
Researchers found that they made a significant difference, after taking into account children's family background and prior attainment.
The EPPE 3-11 study follows the same sample of children that took part in the study covering pre-school to the end of primary school.
The latest research involved classroom observation in a sub-sample of 1,160 children in 125 Year 5 classes.
The report said that it was possible to group teachers in Year 5 in terms of their overall teaching quality across a range of observed classroom behaviour and practices.
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