Citation

Benbenishty R, Astor RA, Zeira A. J. School Violence 2003; 2(2): 29-50.

Affiliation

Hebrew University of Jerusalem, School of Social Work, Jerusalem, Israel 91905

Copyright

(Copyright © 2003, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1300/J202v02n02_03

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

National monitoring of school violence is essential for needs assessments, policymaking, and evaluation at the national level. As informative and important as national monitoring is, the data generated at the national level is often not useful at the district or school site levels. There is therefore a need for a feasible method of monitoring school violence on the district and school level; furthermore, we need to find ways to effectively apply national-level information to schools and school districts. The authors have expanded the national model of monitoring to the district and school site level. We argue that monitoring violence systematically on the school level and linking to nationaland district-level data over time should be the foundation for the design, implementation, and evaluation of interventions in this area. In this article, we propose an expanded concept of monitoring that links comparable data on school violence at the grade, school site, district, and national levels. The paper presents our conceptual framework and methodology and illustrates its implementation in a district in Israel. We present examples of reports generated to monitor school violence for the district as a whole and for each of the school sites. Finally, we conclude that this is a feasible and useful model that social services could adopt to monitor practice in many other areas.

Language: en