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Creating School Climates that Prevent School Violence.
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Peterson, Reece L.; Skiba, Russell – Preventing School Failure, 2000
This article focuses on several approaches for schools to use of improve school climate, in part to prevent violence or at least to improve student behavioral conflicts, including: parent and community involvement, character education, violence-prevention and conflict-resolution curricula, peer mediation, and bullying prevention. (Contains…
Descriptors: Behavior Disorders, Bullying, Conflict Resolution, Educational Environment
Creating School Climates That Prevent School Violence.
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Peterson, Reece L.; Skiba, Russell – Social Studies, 2001
Discusses intervention options that help prevent violence in schools by affecting the school climate. Describes five approaches to improve the school climate: (1) parent and community involvement; (2) character education; (3) violence-prevention and conflict-resolution curricula; (4) peer mediation; and (5) bullying prevention. (CMK)
Descriptors: Bullying, Community Involvement, Conflict Resolution, Educational Environment
Methodological and Measurement Issues in School Violence Research: Moving beyond the Social Problem Era
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Furlong, Michael J.; Morrison, Gale M.; Cornell, Dewey G.; Skiba, Russell – Journal of School Violence, 2004
School violence became a topic of broad national concern in the United States in reaction to a series of tragic school shootings during the 1990s. Efforts to understand and prevent school shootings have stimulated the rapid development of a broader interest in school safety with an emerging multidisciplinary research agenda. The maturation and…
Descriptors: Social Problems, Violence, School Safety, Research Methodology
Predicting Violence from School Misbehavior: Promises and Perils.
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Morrison, Gale M.; Skiba, Russell – Psychology in the Schools, 2001
Considers the issue of predicting violence committed by students in school campuses through the use of school discipline indices such as office referrals, suspensions, and expulsions. Reviews the existing research in incidents of school discipline markers as well as sources of variation due to student characteristics and classroom or school-wide…
Descriptors: Antisocial Behavior, Discipline, Educational Environment, Expulsion
Creating School Climates That Prevent School Violence.
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Peterson, Reece L.; Skiba, Russell – Clearing House, 2001
Discusses several prominent intervention approaches intended to prevent violence and inappropriate behavior in school by directly or indirectly affecting the social climate of the school. Looks at programs focusing on: parent and community involvement; character education; violence prevention and conflict resolution curricula; peer mediation; and…
Descriptors: Bullying, Conflict Resolution, Crisis Intervention, Educational Environment
Beyond Guns, Drugs and Gangs: The Structure of Student Perceptions of School Safety
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Skiba, Russell; Simmons, Ada B.; Peterson, Reece; McKelvey, Janet; Forde, Susan; Gallini, Sarah – Journal of School Violence, 2004
The failure to consider factors that make a key contribution to violence and its prevention may create serious problems of construct validity for school violence surveys. Further, few studies have assessed the relative importance of variables contributing to perceptions of safety by examining correlations between survey items and overall feelings…
Descriptors: Violence, School Safety, Construct Validity, School Surveys