PBIS improves staff-reported overall school organizational health, resource influence, staff affiliation, and academic emphasis over a 5-year randomized trial¶
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q3 i? Over the 5-year trial, PBIS produced a significant effect on schools' overall organizational health, resource influence, staff affiliation, and academic emphasis. → Bradshaw 2009
Evidence¶
Bradshaw 2009¶
Bradshaw, C. P., Koth, C. W., Thornton, L. A., & Leaf, P. J. (2009). Altering School Climate through School-Wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports: Findings from a Group-Randomized Effectiveness Trial. Prevention Science. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11121-008-0114-9
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Group-randomized controlled effectiveness trial of PBIS in 37 elementary schools; longitudinal multilevel analyses of staff reports found "a significant effect of PBIS on the schools’ overall organizational health" and three named dimensions. No effect size is printed, so impact is unquantified.
"Longitudinal multilevel analyses on data from 2,596 staff revealed a significant effect of PBIS on the schools’ overall organizational health, resource influence, staff affiliation, and academic emphasis over the 5-year trial"
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Related Claims¶
- Changes in school organizational health may be a contextual mediator of PBIS effects on student performance — related
- PBIS effects on collegial leadership and institutional integrity were significant only when implementation fidelity was included in the model — related
- Later-implementing PBIS schools showed the greatest organizational health improvements, while fast adopters started higher — related
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PBIS improves staff-reported overall school organizational health, resource influence, staff affiliation, and academic emphasis over a 5-year randomized trial |
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PBIS improves staff-reported overall school organizational health, resource influence, staff affiliation, and academic emphasis over a 5-year randomized trial |
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2009 |
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