title: Multilevel multi-informant structure of the authoritative school climate survey.
abstract: The Authoritative School Climate Survey was designed to provide schools with a brief assessment of 2 key characteristics of school climate--disciplinary structure and student support--that are hypothesized to influence 2 important school climate outcomes--student engagement and prevalence of teasing and bullying in school. The factor structure of these 4 constructs was examined with exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses in a statewide sample of 39,364 students (Grades 7 and 8) attending 423 schools. Notably, the analyses used a multilevel structural approach to model the nesting of students in schools for purposes of evaluating factor structure, demonstrating convergent and concurrent validity and gauging the structural invariance of concurrent validity coefficients across gender. These findings provide schools with a core group of school climate measures guided by authoritative discipline theory.
authors.affiliation: Curry School of Education.
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-0092-9234
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Konold
authors.affiliation: Curry School of Education.
authors.forename: Dewey
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-3631-1527
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cornell
authors.affiliation: Curry School of Education.
authors.forename: Francis
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.affiliation: Curry School of Education.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Meyer
authors.affiliation: Curry School of Education.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Lacey
authors.affiliation: Curry School of Education.
authors.forename: Erin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Nekvasil
authors.affiliation: Curry School of Education.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Heilbrun
authors.affiliation: Curry School of Education.
authors.forename: Kathan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shukla
mesh_terms: D058445:Bullying / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D015995:Prevalence; D012574:Schools / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D012931:Social Environment; D012944:Social Support; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires