In year two, after a leadership shift toward high-stakes testing, student climate perceptions declined significantly below baseline across all five scale assets¶

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Evidence · 1 study · causal r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2012 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person · overdue for a recheck since 2015: local conditions change quickly

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Student reporting showed significantly strong negative changes across all five scale assets after year two, dropping slightly below initial baseline measurements. → Nelson 2012

Evidence¶

Nelson 2012¶

Nelson, L. P., McMahan, S. K., & Torres, T. (2012). The Impact of a Junior High School Community Intervention Project: Moving Beyond the Testing Juggernaut and Into a Community of Creative Learners. School Community Journal, 22(1). https://eric.ed.gov/?id=EJ974689

q2 · i? · causal · r1

Repeated-measures analysis at the intervention school (Table 1 reports F values such as 338.14 for Optimism '09, significant at p < .001). Year-two means fell below the 2007 baseline on all five scales; no effect sizes are printed.

"changes in student reporting across all five scale assets after year two of the in- tervention, dropping slightly below initial baseline measurements (Table 1 & Figure 2)."

Discussion¶

Related Claims¶

• After one year of a community intervention, student perceptions improved significantly across all five school-climate scale assets in the intervention school — related
• The year-two decline in school climate scores is attributed to a leadership change focused on improving test scores — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)