School climate differences between BTO and chronically underperforming schools are twice as large as differences between BTO and other schools¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q2
Currency · newest study 2013 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2016: local conditions change quickly

Subclaims¶

q2 i? The climate gap between BTO schools and CU schools is twice the gap between BTO schools and other schools. → Voight 2013

Evidence¶

Voight 2013¶

Voight, A., Austin, G., and Hanson, T. (2013). A climate for academic success: How school climate distinguishes schools that are beating the achievement odds (Full Report). San Francisco: WestEd. https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED559741

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Comparative climate analysis contrasting 40 BTO schools with 20 chronically underperforming schools identified by the same residual-based criteria; the report states the BTO-CU climate differences were "twice as large" as BTO-other differences.

"Differences in school climate were twice as large between BTO schools and 20 schools that were consistently performing worse than expected (“chronically underperforming”)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Safety — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• The school climate gap between beating-the-odds and chronically underperforming schools is more than twice as large as the gap between BTO and other schools — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• Beating-the-odds schools have substantially more positive school climate than the other California middle and high schools in a 1,715-school survey sample — related
• School climate differences between BTO and other schools remain large and significant after adjusting for student demographics and personnel resources — related
• Only 2.4 percent of the sampled California secondary schools were classified as beating the odds, and 1.2 percent as chronically underperforming — related