Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The purpose of the CACS is to extract the racialized experiences of youth of color in school to highlight opportunities to mitigate issues of racial bias and discrimination. In previous work the CACS has been used to identify strategies to improve student well-being, belonging, and engagement. Six constructs are currently used to assess school climate through the CACS, including awareness of student interests, teacher expectations, racial identity and discrimination, multicultural navigation, selective vulnerability, and promotion of social justice. Awareness of student interests measures youth of color's perspectives on their teacher's awareness and nurturance of their interests, both academic and non-academic. Teacher expectations measures students' perspectives on how teachers expect them to perform and the support teachers provide related to those expectations. Racial identity/discrimination measures students’ perspectives on whether the classroom environment is culturally affirming and whether they experience subtle or overt forms of racism and discrimination. Multicultural navigation measures students' perspectives of learning about other non-White cultures. Selective trust measures students’ perspectives on whether they trust their classroom teachers and whether there are other adults in their schools who they trust. Promotion of social justice measures students' perspectives of teachers' openness about inequalities and injustice and efforts to promote equity and fairness as it relates to marginalized identities (e.g., race, socioeconomic status).
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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
Keywords
; School Climate ;
Respondent
Student
Access and Use
Developer
Village of Wisdom
Open Access
Yes
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Majors Ladipo, A.T., Henderson, D.X., Jackson, W.P., Merritt, A., & Lozada, F (2022). Assessing the Validity of the Culturally Affirming Climate Survey. Village of Wisdom.
