Pennsylvania Department of Education voluntary school climate survey¶
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Evidence · 6 claims (5 for, 1 against) · 2 studies (2 associational),q2· 0 of 2 report an effect size · 6 claims rest on one study
Description¶
A voluntary statewide school-climate survey developed and administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education's Office for Safe Schools in partnership with REL Mid-Atlantic to measure school climate and identify schools needing support.
Components¶
Claims¶
- No association found between 2021/22 school climate scores and the amount of virtual and hybrid instruction in 2020/21 [+W]
- No evidence of a significant decline in school climate scores between 2018/19 and 2021/22 in the Pennsylvania sample [+W]
- Students and teachers reported more positive school climate perceptions in 2020/21 during hybrid and remote learning than in 2018/19 and 2021/22 [+W]
- School climate scores were steady across the years before COVID-19 in the Pennsylvania sample [+W]
- Items in each of the three domains of the PDE elementary school climate survey measured the constructs they intended to measure [+W]
- The safe and respectful school climate domain of the elementary student survey fell short of the established reliability threshold [-W]
Related Products and Programmes¶
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Key Sources¶
- Whitney Kozakowski, Katlyn Lee Milless, Sonia Alves, Michelle Bennett. (2023). Changes in School Climate During COVID-19 in a Sample of Pennsylvania Schools. REL 2023-003, U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. https://ies.ed.gov/ncee/edlabs
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Pennsylvania Department of Education voluntary school climate survey |
description |
A voluntary statewide school-climate survey developed and administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education's Office for Safe Schools in partnership with REL Mid-Atlantic to measure school climate and identify schools needing support. |
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