Measuring School Climate: Validating the Education Department School Climate Survey in a Sample of Urban Middle and High School Students

Autor/inn/en	Ryberg, Renee; Her, Sarah; Temkin, Deborah; Madill, Rebecca; Kelley, Claire; Thompson, Joy; Gabriel, Alexander
Titel	Measuring School Climate: Validating the Education Department School Climate Survey in a Sample of Urban Middle and High School Students
Quelle	In: AERA Open, 6 (2020) 3, (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Temkin, Deborah)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2332-8584
Schlagwörter	Educational Environment; Student Surveys; Middle School Students; High School Students; Urban Schools; Learner Engagement; School Safety; Test Validity; Factor Structure; Public Schools; District of Columbia + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Schülerbefragung; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studentin; Urban area; Urban areas; School; Schools; Stadtregion; Stadt; Schule; Testvalidität; Faktorenstruktur; Public school; Öffentliche Schule
Abstract	The U.S. Department of Education's School Climate Survey (EDSCLS) is a free, open-source school climate survey available for any local or state education agency to use to measure three domains of school climate: engagement, safety, and environment. The present study leverages EDSCLS data from 3,416 students from 26 middle and high schools in Washington, DC to confirm the factor structure of the survey using both single-level and multilevel confirmatory factor analyses. At the individual level, our findings paralleled those from the original validation study conducted by the U.S. Department of Education. At the school level, our findings suggested a simpler factor structure for the engagement and environment domains, and could not identify a reasonable well-fitting model for the safety domain. Particularly, as more states are considering school climate measurement for accountability systems, these findings suggest that simply using the individual-level structure may not yield valid measurement. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01