Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The EDSCLS national benchmark study questionnaires designed for students, instructional staff, and non-instructional staff/principal cover 3 domains and 13 topics. The ED School Climate Surveys (EDSCLS) are a suite of survey instruments that were developed for schools, districts, and states by NCES. This NCES effort extends activities to measure and support school climate by ED‘s Office of Safe and Healthy Students (OSHS). Through the EDSCLS, schools nationwide have access to survey instruments and a survey platform that allows for the collection and reporting of school climate data across stakeholders at the local level. The surveys can be used to produce school-, district-, and state-level scores on various indicators of school climate from the perspectives of students, teachers, non-instructional school staff, principals, and parents/guardians. NCES has also developed psychometric benchmarks to enable meaningful comparisons between student subgroups, and between schools.
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Organization
Topic
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
Grades
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Keywords
Schooling ; School Climate ; Institutional Environment ; Safety ; ED School Climate Surveys (EDSCLS) ; National benchmark study ; School climate measurement ; NCES survey instruments ; School climate data ; Student perceptions of school climate ; Teacher and staff perspectives ; School climate indicators
Languages
Spanish
Respondent
Student,
Teacher,
Parent
Administration Information
Length
20-30 minutes for student and instructional/non-instructional staff survey, 10-15 minutes for parent/guardian survey
Administration
Computer
Access and Use
Contact
EDSCLS Help Desk EDSCLS@air.org (866) 730-6735
Open Access
Yes
Setting
Schoolwide
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Ye, C., & Wang, Y. (2017). ED School Climate Surveys (EDSCLS) Psychometric Benchmarking Technical Report. U.S. Department of Education National Center for Education Statistics. https://safesupportivelearning.ed.gov/sites/default/files/EDSCLS_Psychometric_Benchmarking_Technical_Report.pdf Ryberg, R. et al. (2020). Measuring school climate: Validating the Education Department School Climate Survey in a sample of urban middle and high school students. AREA Open, 6(3), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1177/2332858420948024
