Design Principles for Accelerating Student Learning with High-Impact Tutoring (updated June 2024)
Category: Student Learning
Instrument Overview
The Tool for Assessing Culturally Responsive Schooling in Indigenous-serving Schools is designed to assess the alignment of culturally responsive schooling principles within schools serving predominantly U.S. Indigenous students. Schools that serve a majority of Indigenous students are generally located on or bordering Native Nations that are federally recognized as being sovereign Nations with a government-to-government relationship to the federal government, so the more generic diversity, equity, and inclusion tools that currently exist are insufficient for the unique contexts of schools in Indian Country. Thus, [this tool] can be used to identify and strengthen the integration of culturally responsive principles specifically for, with, and in Indigenous-serving schools. The intended use of this tool is to assess the degree to which culturally responsive principles are or are not present in schools serving Indigenous youth. The idea is that anyone with some familiarity of culturally responsive schooling could leverage this tool to assess either particular curricular materials, pedagogy, or policies within a school. A high overall score on the tool indicates that the unit of analysis does align to culturally responsive principles, whereas a low overall score on the tool indicates that the unit of analysis exhibits characteristics that are antithetical, or contradictory, to culturally responsive principles. The tool opens with a section for the user to note what is being observed and/or analyzed. The tool includes 23 distinct culturally responsive principles that are thematically grouped under five categories. 1. Relationality, relationships, and communities (n = 4) 2. Sociopolitical context and concepts, and specifically sovereignty, self-determination, and nationhood (n = 4) 3. Representation of Indigenous peoples (n = 5) 4. Critical understandings of diversity, and specifically race (n = 4)
These five clusters align to the broad body of theory and research on cultural responsiveness with and in Indigenous communities.
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Organization
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Keywords
Teaching practice ; school leader practice ; school climate ; classroom environment
Respondent
Observer
Access and Use
Developer
Castagno, A. E., Joseph, D. H., Kretzmann, H., & Dass, P. M.
Price
Contact the CampusReady developer for pricing: https://www.inflexion.org/who-we-are/get-started/.
Open Access
Yes
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Castagno, A. E., Joseph, D. H., Kretzmann, H., & Dass, P. M. (2022). Developing and piloting a tool to assess culturally responsive principles in schools serving Indigenous students. Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education, 16(2), 133–147. https://doi.org/10.1080/15595692.2021.1956455
