ERIC Number: EJ842811
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2006
Pages: 24
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Assessing Student Perceptions of School Victimization and School Safety: A Psychometric Assessment of Relevant Instruments
Soderstrom, Irina R.; Elrod, Preston
Journal of School Violence, v5 n1 p5-28 2006
In an effort to assess students' perceptions of victimization in their schools, as well as their schools' safety, over 1,900 students from elementary, middle, high, and alternative schools were administered a 154-item questionnaire. The responses on the items were used to establish the psychometric properties of 19 theoretically driven scales and subscales developed by the researchers. The results support the use of these scales and indices to measure students' self-reported levels of school victimization and victimization response, school safety, delinquency, weapons threat response, severity of school problems, school climate, future goals, attachment to school, alienation, negative peer influence, and strain. Additionally, this research describes the characteristics of the student sample on all of these dimensions. (Contains 2 tables.)
Descriptors: Student Attitudes, School Safety, Psychometrics, Peer Influence, Victims of Crime, Educational Environment, Violence, Questionnaires, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students, High School Students, Nontraditional Education, Delinquency, Weapons, Student School Relationship, Alienation, Student Characteristics, Measures (Individuals)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Elementary Secondary Education; High Schools; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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