TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - The Study of Factor Structure and Reliability of an Abbreviated School Climate Survey
JO  - Canadian journal of school psychology
A1  - Ding, Cody
A1  - Liu, Yunbo
A1  - Berkowitz, Marvin
SP  - 241
EP  - 256
VL  - 26
IS  - 3
N2  - The concept of school climate has been an important variable in research on quality of school life and student learning. One of the challenges in such a research effort is to develop instruments that could effectively and efficiently measure the construct. The purpose of the current study was to examine the factor structure and reliability of an abbreviated version of the Developmental Study Center's School Climate Survey. Based on data from a comprehensive character education project implemented in an urban school district in 2007 (n = 5,914), 2008 (n = 5,874) and 2009 (n = 5,149), results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) revealed a seven-factor structure across 3 years, indicating a stable factor structure of the abbreviated form. The scales in the abbreviated form demonstrated similar reliability to those of the original form.<p /> 
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SN  - 0829-5735
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0829573511414005
ID  - ref1
ER  -