ERIC Number: EJ1055862
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Sep
Pages: 18
Abstractor: As Provided
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ISSN: ISSN-1045-3830
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Multilevel Multi-Informant Structure of the Authoritative School Climate Survey
Konold, Timothy; Cornell, Dewey; Huang, Francis; Meyer, Patrick; Lacey, Anna; Nekvasil, Erin; Heilbrun, Anna; Shukla, Kathan
School Psychology Quarterly, v29 n3 p238-255 Sep 2014
The Authoritative School Climate Survey was designed to provide schools with a brief assessment of 2 key characteristics of school climate--disciplinary structure and student support--that are hypothesized to influence 2 important school climate outcomes--student engagement and prevalence of teasing and bullying in school. The factor structure of these 4 constructs was examined with exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses in a statewide sample of 39,364 students (Grades 7 and 8) attending 423 schools. Notably, the analyses used a multilevel structural approach to model the nesting of students in schools for purposes of evaluating factor structure, demonstrating convergent and concurrent validity and gauging the structural invariance of concurrent validity coefficients across gender. These findings provide schools with a core group of school climate measures guided by authoritative discipline theory.
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Educational Assessment, Student Surveys, Psychometrics, Learner Engagement, Bullying, Student Behavior, Antisocial Behavior, Factor Analysis, Factor Structure, Middle School Students, Grade 7, Grade 8, Discipline, Discipline Problems, Incidence, Construct Validity, Gender Differences, Scores, Goodness of Fit
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools; Grade 7; Elementary Education; Grade 8
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Language: English
Sponsor: US Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention
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Identifiers - Location: Virginia
Grant or Contract Numbers: 2012-JF-FX-0062