a 2005

School-climate assessment: A proposal for assessment procedure which would be both immediately meaningful while retaining the possibility for comparison

JEŽEK, Stanislav

Basic information

Original name

School-climate assessment: A proposal for assessment procedure which would be both immediately meaningful while retaining the possibility for comparison

Name in Czech

Diagnostika školního klimatu: Návrh metodiky kombinující focus groups a dotazníkovou metodu.

Authors

JEŽEK, Stanislav (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

27th ISPA Colloquium: Promoting the well-being of children and youth, 13-17/7/2005, 2005

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Konferenční abstrakt

Field of Study

50100 5.1 Psychology and cognitive sciences

Country of publisher

Greece

Confidentiality degree

není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství

RIV identification code

RIV/00216224:14230/05:00013857

Organization unit

Faculty of Social Studies

Keywords in English

school climate; assessment; meaning making; focus groups; questionnaires

Tags

International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 6/8/2018 15:59, doc. Mgr. Stanislav Ježek, Ph.D.

Abstract

V originále

School-climate questionnaires as the prevailing assessment tools in the school-climate or school-environment literature have several disadvantages. Some of them stem from the nature of the questionnaire method itself (highly-structured - reducing, no meaning(validity)-checking). Some disadvantages come from the broadness of the concept of climate what aspects of environment are meaningful elements of a particular school climate, are the elements the same or similar across cultures/school systems? In this paper I propose an assessment procedure combing the use of focus groups and follow-up questionnaires with students and their teachers, an analysis framework, and present the results that this procedure yields (based on application in 5 Czech schools). The portrait of a schools environment that this procedure provides should be qualitatively comparable across schools, ie. schools can be compared as to what aspects of environment emerged as meaningful or significant and whether the relationships between these aspects seem to be the same. The same extent of comparison should be possible across different cultures/school systems.

In Czech

Dotazníky na školní klima coby převažující diagnostický nástroj v literatuře o školním klimatu mají několik závažných nevýhod. Některé nevýhody vyplývají z podstaty dotazníkové metody samotné (vysoce strukturované - redukující, žádná kontrola sdílení významů -validity). Jiné nevýhody vyplývají z šíře pojmu klima - které aspekty úprostředí jsou smysluplnými prvky klimatu konkrétní školy?, jsou tyto prvky stejné napříč školami, školními kulturami, školskými systémy? Ve svém příspěvku navrhuji diagnostický postup kombinující focus groups a následné dostazníky se studenty a jejich učiteli, interpretační rámec a prezentuji výsledky aplikace tohoto postupu na pěti českých školách.

Links

MSM0021622406, plan (intention)
Name: Psychologické a sociální charakteristiky dětí, mládeže a rodiny, vývoj osobnosti v době proměn moderní společnosti
Investor: Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports of the CR, Psychological and social characteristics of children, youth and families, development of the personality in the time of changes of modern society