Development of the California school climate and safety survey-short form

Planning is essential to creating safe schools and it is required by the Federal No Child Left Behind legislation (U.S. Department of Education, 2004) and implemented via district local education action plans. The implementation of these plans involves continuous monitoring and reevaluation of infor...

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Published in:Psychology in the schools 2005-02, Vol.42 (2), p.137-149
Main Authors: Furlong, Michael J., Greif, Jennifer L., Bates, Michael P., Whipple, Angela D., Jimenez, Terese C., Morrison, Richard
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antisocial Behavior
Biological and medical sciences
Bullying
California School Climate and Safety Survey
Drug Abuse
Educational Environment
Educational psychology
Evaluation Methods
Factor Structure
Federal Legislation
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Miscellaneous
No Child Left Behind Act 2001
Planning
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychometrics
Safety
School Culture
School Safety
Secondary School Students
Student Behavior
Student Evaluation
Student Experience
Test Construction
Violence
Weapons
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Summary:Planning is essential to creating safe schools and it is required by the Federal No Child Left Behind legislation (U.S. Department of Education, 2004) and implemented via district local education action plans. The implementation of these plans involves continuous monitoring and reevaluation of information pertinent to each campus. As such, this process is facilitated by the availability of measures that are simple to administer, inexpensive, and whose psychometric properties have been evaluated. The California School Climate and Safety Survey (CSCSS), originally developed by M.J. Furlong, R. Morrison, and S. Boles (1991), was specifically developed for these purposes. The CSCSS is a student self‐report questionnaire created to measure general school climate and personal safety‐related experiences. In this article, we present the results of an evaluation of the CSCSS including exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses. These analyses reduced the original CSCSS research version from 102 items to 54 items. The psychometric properties of this CSCSS‐SF (Short Form) are presented. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Psychol Schs 42: 137–149, 2005.
ISSN:0033-3085
1520-6807
DOI:10.1002/pits.20053