Student-reported learning climate measures covering academic press, personalism, peer support, classroom behavior, engagement, and safety¶

Element · All elements
Evidence · 2 claims (2 for) · 2 studies (2 associational), q1–q2 · 0 of 2 report an effect size · 2 claims rest on one study

Description¶

The 1994 student survey includes Rasch measures of the learning climate: Press Toward Academic Achievement (individual reliability 0.78), Peer Support for Academic Work (0.82), Classroom Behavior (0.65), Classroom Personalism (0.73), Academic Engagement (0.70), and Safety (0.74). Items ask students, for example, how many of their friends "Think doing homework is important?" and how safe they feel "In your classes," with response categories printed in footnotes and items ordered by difficulty within each measure.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• Student survey responses in the 1994 Chicago Public Schools administration

Constraints¶

• Several items are reverse coded, as flagged in the table footnotes

Target Learners¶

• elementary school students in Chicago Public Schools

Target Learning Goals¶

• measuring classroom climate, academic press, and student engagement

Claims¶

• Academic achievement is more likely in classrooms that combine personalism with a strong press toward academic work [+W]
• Personalism and academic press each had only small influences on engagement, but their combination elevated student academic engagement substantially [+M]

Related Elements¶

• Teacher instructional guidance measures of basic-skills and application-oriented emphasis in language arts and math
• Rasch rating-scale analysis methodology for deriving school survey measures
• Relational Trust measures built from teacher-parent, teacher-principal, and teacher-teacher trust scales across 1991, 1994, and 1997

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Anthony S. Bryk, Penny Bender Sebring, Elaine Allensworth, Stuart Luppescu, John Q. Easton. (2009). Survey Measures, Factors, Composite Variables, and Items Used in Organizing Schools for Improvement: Lessons from Chicago. University of Chicago Press. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/organizing-schools-improvement-lessons-chicago