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Edgar-Smith, Susan; Palmer, Ruth Baugher – Preventing School Failure, 2015
This article reports findings from a study of an alternative educational program for at-risk secondary students, comparing student perceptions of their public school environment, measured upon intake in the alternative school, with their perceptions of the alternative school environment after four and eight months of attendance in the program.…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Nontraditional Education, At Risk Students, Student Attitudes
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Van Houtte, Mieke; Van Maele, Dimitri – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
Since the 1970s, school effectiveness research has looked for process-variables filling the black box between mainly structural school features and cognitive outcomes in students. Two concepts came to the fore: school climate and school culture. Both concepts are currently used interchangeably, although it is open to debate whether both are…
Descriptors: Effective Schools Research, Educational Environment, School Culture, Measurement
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Jaureguizar, Joana; Ibabe, Izaskun; Straus, Murray A. – Psychology in the Schools, 2013
This study focused on violent and prosocial behaviors by adolescents toward parents and teachers, and the relation between such behaviors and adolescents' perceptions about the family and school environment. Gender differences in child-to-parent violence and student-to-teacher violence were also studied. The sample comprised 687 adolescents from…
Descriptors: Violence, Prosocial Behavior, Adolescents, Foreign Countries
New Directions for Testing and Measurement, 1980
Educational environment data derived from classroom settings strongly suggest the positive contribution that climate variables can make in accounting for learning performance. Such measures are not only related to productivity but may constitute criterion variables in and of themselves. (Author)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Correlation, Educational Environment, Learning