School-based law enforcement is not associated with statistically significant changes in students' perceptions of safety at school¶

Claim · All claims
Evidence · 1 study · review r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2018 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? A systematic review of 12 quasi-experimental studies found school-based law enforcement is not associated with statistically significant changes in students' perceptions of safety at school. → Stern 2018

Evidence¶

Stern 2018¶

Stern, A., & Petrosino, A. (2018). What do we know about the effects of school-based law enforcement on school safety? San Francisco, CA: WestEd. https://www.wested.org/resources/effects-of-school-based-law-enforcement-on-school-safety

q3 · i? · review · r2

A systematic review (Petrosino et al., forthcoming) that the brief reports conducted a systematic and exhaustive search, identifying and reviewing 12 quasi-experiments meeting criteria for focus, rigor, outcomes, comparison group, data types, and program scale. It found "not associated with statistically significant changes in students’ perceptions of safety at school."

"In their review of 12 quasi-experimental studies, Petrosino and colleagues (forthcoming) found that school-based law enforcement is not associated with statistically significant changes in students’ perceptions of safety at school."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Safety — outcome: instruction changes it

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