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Development of the California school climate and safety survey‐short form
Author(s) -
Furlong Michael J.,
Greif Jennifer L.,
Bates Michael P.,
Whipple Angela D.,
Jimenez Terese C.,
Morrison Richard
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
psychology in the schools
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.738
H-Index - 75
eISSN - 1520-6807
pISSN - 0033-3085
DOI - 10.1002/pits.20053
Subject(s) - psychology , legislation , applied psychology , school climate , exploratory factor analysis , school psychology , medical education , psychometrics , pedagogy , developmental psychology , political science , medicine , law
Abstract 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.