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ERIC Number: EJ842855
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2004
Pages: 23
Abstractor: As Provided
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-1538-8220
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Beyond Guns, Drugs and Gangs: The Structure of Student Perceptions of School Safety
Skiba, Russell; Simmons, Ada B.; Peterson, Reece; McKelvey, Janet; Forde, Susan; Gallini, Sarah
Journal of School Violence, v3 n2-3 p149-171 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 of school safety. This study describes the development of a self-report survey, the "Safe and Responsive Schools Safe School Survey", explicitly designed to assess perceptions regarding criminal violation and serious violence as well as day-to-day disruption and climate issues. Principal components analysis identified four factors involving student connectedness, incivility, feelings of personal safety, and delinquency/major safety. Further multivariate analysis suggests that, in at least some cases, feelings about connectedness and climate may be more critical than serious violence in shaping student perceptions of school safety. (Contains 1 note, 4 tables, and 1 figure.)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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