title: Profiles of Student Perceptions of School Climate: Relations with Risk Behaviors and Academic Outcomes.
abstract: School climate has been linked to a variety of positive student outcomes, but there may be important within-school differences among students in their experiences of school climate. This study examined within-school heterogeneity among 47,631 high school student ratings of their school climate through multilevel latent class modeling. Student profiles across 323 schools were generated on the basis of multiple indicators of school climate: disciplinary structure, academic expectations, student willingness to seek help, respect for students, affective and cognitive engagement, prevalence of teasing and bullying, general victimization, bullying victimization, and bullying perpetration. Analyses identified four meaningfully different student profile types that were labeled positive climate, medium climate-low bullying, medium climate-high bullying, and negative climate. Contrasts among these profile types on external criteria revealed meaningful differences for race, grade-level, parent education level, educational aspirations, and frequency of risk behaviors.
authors.affiliation: Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA. KDS5UN@Virginia.edu.
authors.forename: Kathan
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shukla
authors.affiliation: Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Timothy
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Konold
authors.affiliation: Curry School of Education, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA.
authors.forename: Dewey
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Cornell
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D000293:Adolescent; D001240:Aspirations, Psychological; D058445:Bullying; D019548:Crime Victims / Q000523:psychology; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D004522:Educational Status; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology; D012309:Risk-Taking; D012574:Schools; D012931:Social Environment; D012938:Social Perception; D013334:Students / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D014768:Virginia
keywords: Academic outcomes; Adolescents; High school; Latent class modeling; Risk behaviors; School climate