Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The Culturally Inclusive and Responsive Curricular Environments (CIRCLE) Scale is a student survey that captures how culturally inclusive, respectful, and responsive a school’s learning environment feels to students. It was developed using interviews with middle school students from multiple cultural groups, who shared their experiences with teachers, peers, curriculum, and school policies. These insights shaped the survey items so that they reflect what cultural inclusion looks and feels like from a student perspective.
The CIRCLE Scale has a hierarchical structure with several subscales that assess areas such as cultural awareness, openness to different perspectives, and the extent to which the curriculum and school practices respond to student diversity. Testing across diverse student groups showed that the scale works consistently and captures shared dimensions of culturally inclusive environments. Schools and researchers can use the CIRCLE Scale to understand how students from different backgrounds experience their learning environment and to identify areas where instruction or school policies may need to be more culturally responsive.
Organization
Topic
Collection Category(ies)
Content
Grades
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
29 items
Qualifications
Training required
Access and Use
Developer
Revathy Kumar, Professor of Educational Psychology, Judith Herb College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Education, University of Toledo Stuart Karabenik, Interim Chair for the Division of Education, School of Arts, Sciences and Education, Walsh University
Price
None indicated
Contact
Revathy Kumar: revathy.kumar@utoledo.edu
Stuart Karabenik: jwarnke@walsh.edu
Open Access
No
