ERIC Number: EJ1026982
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014
Pages: 21
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ISSN: ISSN-0924-3453
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Preliminary Development of the Brief-California School Climate Survey: Dimensionality and Measurement Invariance across Teachers and Administrators
You, Sukkyung; O'Malley, Meagan D.; Furlong, Michael J.
School Effectiveness and School Improvement, v25 n1 p153-173 2014
A brief 15-item version of the California School Climate Scale (Brief-CSCS) is presented to fill a need for a measure that could be used for periodic monitoring of school personnel's general perception of the climate of their school campus. From a sample of 81,261 California school personnel, random subsamples of 2,400 teachers and 2,400 administrators were used in the analyses. Confirmatory factor analyses supported a model in which general school climate was a second-order latent factor composed of 2 first-order latent traits, organizational supports and relational supports. Measurement invariance of factor loadings for teachers and administrators was found. Additional analyses revealed that administrators held more positive perceptions of school climate than teachers, with this difference increasing from primary through high school. The implications for these findings for educational research and policy reform are outlined.
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Surveys, Test Construction, School Personnel, Public School Teachers, Administrators, Factor Analysis, Administrator Attitudes, Teacher Attitudes, Positive Attitudes, Factor Structure, Statistical Analysis, Goodness of Fit, Test Reliability, Test Validity, Elementary Schools, Middle Schools, High Schools
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Secondary Education; Elementary Education; Secondary Education; Middle Schools; Junior High Schools; High Schools
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: California
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