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La Salle, Tamika P. – Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, 2022
When school personnel and parents complete school climate surveys, results can inform team action planning to improve perceptions of school climate. Further, school climate data can assist in considering questions related to equity, disproportionality, and cultural responsiveness and appropriateness. The freely-available School Climate Survey…
Descriptors: School Surveys, Parent Surveys, Positive Behavior Supports, Educational Environment
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La Salle, Tamika P.; Rocha-Neves, Jesslynn; Jimerson, Shane; Di Sano, Sergio; Martinsone, Baiba; Majercakova Albertova, Silvia; Gajdošová, Eva; Baye, Ariane; Deltour, Caroline; Martinelli, Victor; Raykov, Milosh; Hatzichristou, Chryse; Palikara, Olympia; Szabó, Éva; Arlauskaite, Zydre; Athanasiou, Danai; Brown-Earle, Orlean; Casale, Gino; Lampropoulou, Aikaterini; Mikhailova, Aleksandra; Pinskaya, Marina; Zvyagintsev, Roman – School Psychology, 2021
School climate is a topic of increasing importance internationally. The current study investigated the established measurement invariance of an eight-factor school climate scale using a multinational sample of secondary students. School climate factor means across 14 international groups were compared and findings on the association between school…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Adolescents, Student Attitudes, Secondary School Students
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La Salle, Tamika P.; McCoach, Dorothy Betsy; Meyers, Joel – Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 2021
School climate can have a notable impact on student academic, social, emotional, and behavioral outcomes. It is also a critical component of school improvement efforts, as demonstrated by recent federal and state initiatives to provide resources and supports for increased school climate measurement, accountability, and improvement. The primary…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, School Surveys, Student Surveys, Middle School Students
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Collins, Tai A.; La Salle, Tamika P.; Rocha Neves, Jesslynn; Foster, Josalyn A.; Scott, Meagan N. – School Psychology Review, 2023
Black boys often experience oppression and marginalization in schools. Black boys with disabilities in secondary school are frequently targeted with inequitable and biased discipline practices, exacerbating the school-to-prison pipeline. As such, it is important to examine the school climate experiences of Black boys to inform the creation of…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, School Safety, African American Students, Emotional Disturbances
La Salle, Tamika P. – Center on Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, 2020
The purpose of this brief is to provide information about how to evaluate school climate at the primary and secondary levels. Norms and ranges are provided and based on a national data; this data can help schools to contextualize local data. Information for interpreting the data and unit if for data-based decision making is also included.
Descriptors: School Surveys, Educational Environment, Student Surveys, Student Characteristics
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La Salle, Tamika P.; Neves, Jesslynn Rocha; Freeman, Jennifer; Sugai, George – Remedial and Special Education, 2019
The purpose of the current study was to examine perceptions of school climate among youth identifying as lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) using the Georgia Brief School Climate Inventory (GaBSCI). Confirmatory factor analysis was conducted to confirm the one-factor school climate construct of the GaBSCI, and measurement invariance was established…
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, Educational Environment, LGBTQ People, Positive Behavior Supports
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La Salle, Tamika P.; Zabek, Faith; Meyers, Joel – School Psychology Forum, 2016
School climate has increasingly been recognized as an essential component of school improvement owing to the established associations between a positive school climate and academic outcomes for students. Our study examines associations among a brief measure of school climate assessing elementary student perceptions and the College and Career Ready…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, College Readiness, Career Readiness, Correlation
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La Salle, Tamika P.; Wang, Cixin; Wu, Chaorong; Rocha Neves, Jesslynn – Journal of Educational and Psychological Consultation, 2020
The student population in American public schools has become increasingly diverse; however, the teacher workforce remains primarily White (80%). The purpose of the current paper was to examine the relationship between student-teacher racial composition and perceptions of school climate and the impact of Whiteness on the educational outcomes of…
Descriptors: Minority Group Students, Public Schools, Whites, Correlation
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La Salle, Tamika P.; Wang, Cixin; Parris, Leandra; Brown, Jacqueline A. – Psychology in the Schools, 2017
The purpose of the current study is to investigate the relationships between suicidal thoughts and behaviors (STBs), school climate, and student demographics among middle school students. The study was conducted with a sample of 152,191 middle school students across 607 schools within 182 school districts in a southeastern state. Results support…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Suicide, Ethnicity, Middle School Students
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La Salle, Tamika P.; Meyers, Joel; Varjas, Kristen; Roach, Andrew – International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, 2015
School climate has been established as an important construct to measure because of its connections to student psychological, social, and academic outcomes (Anderson, 1982; Koth, Bradshaw, & Leaf, 2008; Kuperminc, Leadbeater, Emmons, & Blatt, 1997). Prior research has also established relationships between student perceptions of school…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Ecology, Individual Characteristics, Institutional Characteristics