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Direct linkMuhammet Ibrahim Akyürek – Education 3-13, 2024
The aim of the study is to determine the level of relationship between school climate and happiness according to student perceptions. This research is in the descriptive relational survey model. The sample of the study consists of a total of 539 students studying in public primary schools in the districts located in Ankara, the capital city of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Environment, Psychological Patterns, Student Attitudes
Download full textFrancis L. Huang; Bixi Zhang; Wendy M. Reinke; Keith C. Herman; James Sebastian – Grantee Submission, 2023
Although several studies have focused on why school climate is important, the timing of the collection of climate measures should be considered. This is of particular interest to schools that gauge school improvement efforts within a school year and are interested in how climate changes from the beginning to the end of the academic year. We show…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Differences, Measurement, Middle School Students
Giraldo-García, Regina J.; Fogarty, Laura; Sanders, Steven; Voight, Adam – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This phenomenological qualitative study describes students' experiences and counter-stories of school climate and how school climate matters for their academic achievement in an urban school district. The study uses a critical race perspective to help understand contextual influences on school climate. Data were collected through eight focus group…
Descriptors: Student Experience, Educational Environment, Academic Achievement, Urban Schools
Gillen, Allison M. P. – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Today, schools' climates impact every student across the globe (Thapa et al., 2013). "A positive school climate is critically related to school success" (National Center for Safe and Supportive Learning, 2021, para. 2). School climate consists of the many aspects of an educational atmosphere including the physical environment,…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Educational Environment, Teacher Attitudes, Learner Engagement
Bendixen, Lisa D.; Plachowski, Tara; Olafson, Lori – Education and Urban Society, 2023
This study seeks to critically examine perceptions of urban school climate from a predominantly white teacher workforce and discuss the role that white identity, as the Dominant culture, plays in maintaining the status quo of racialized school climate. Participants included 145 teachers from a large southwestern urban setting. Teachers'…
Descriptors: Teacher Attitudes, Urban Schools, Educational Environment, Racism
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
Kozakowski, Whitney; Milless, Katlyn Lee; Alves, Sonia; Bennett, Michelle – Regional Educational Laboratory Mid-Atlantic, 2023
The Pennsylvania Department of Education's (PDE's) Office for Safe Schools partnered with REL Mid-Atlantic to conduct a study using data from PDE's school climate survey. This survey, which is available on a voluntary basis to any school in the state, provides a way to track school climate and identify schools that need additional support to…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, COVID-19, Pandemics, Public Schools
Gonzálvez, Carolina; Bacon, Victoria; Kearney, Christopher A. – Psychology in the Schools, 2023
This study involved a systematic and evaluative review of school climate measures to catalog main domains and subdomains and rate parameters of instrument presentation and psychometric quality. Four databases were used (Web of Science, Scopus, ERIC, and PsycINFO) and 37 instruments (studies) met inclusion criteria (instrument measured school…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Psychometrics, Measures (Individuals), Interpersonal Relationship
Capp, Gordon; Astor, Ron Avi; Gilreath, Tamika D. – Journal of School Violence, 2021
Improving school climate remains a priority for improving academic achievement and social emotional learning, and for reducing violence and promoting safe schools. This study examined staff member experiences of school climate with the goal of identifying the quality of climate (negative or positive) that staff experience and how certain…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, School Safety, Social Emotional Learning, School Personnel
Yang, Chunyan; Chan, Meiki; Chen, Chun; Jimerson, Shane R. – School Psychology, 2021
To advance cross-country understanding of parental perceptions of school climate, this study examined the psychometric properties of the Delaware School Climate Survey--Home version (DSCS-H) and also compared the parental perception of school climate among Chinese (n = 999) and American (n = 1,251) parents. Confirmatory factor analyses revealed…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Educational Environment, Psychometrics, Cultural Differences
Ross, Randy; Brown, Philip; Biagas, Kori Hamilton – State Education Standard, 2020
The authors believe it is time to expand the term school climate to reflect an intention of giving all children access to positive school environments. Their expanded definition recognizes that equitable school climates are central to education equity, and it calls on educators and policymakers to deepen awareness of race, ethnicity, gender,…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Equal Education, Culturally Relevant Education, School Community Relationship
Osher, David; Neiman, Sam; Williamson, Sandra – State Education Standard, 2020
When done reliably and efficiently, measuring school climate can help improve schools' vital signs and help state boards of education realize their goals and objectives for the system as a whole. Moreover, because it is as consequential to schools as checking heart rates and blood pressure are to humans, schools should always use climate measures…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Data Collection, Surveys, School Safety
Aspen Institute, 2021
The report contains real-world, proven school climate strategies to guide policymakers in building a comprehensive and coherent state-wide approach for improving school climate. It features 12 recommendations linked to existing state policy examples policymakers can use to build a comprehensive, coherent state-wide approach for improving school…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, School Policy, State Policy, Policy Formation
Bradshaw, Catherine P.; Cohen, Jonathan; Espelage, Dorothy L.; Nation, Maury – School Psychology Review, 2021
School climate has received considerable attention in the literature and educational policy as a potential target for school improvement and school safety efforts. This paper provides a critical review and synthesis of the literature on school climate, with a particular focus on topics related to measurement, data collection, analysis, as well as…
Descriptors: School Safety, Educational Environment, School Psychologists, Role
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
