Browsing Journal Articles by Author "Shukla, Kathan"
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Association of grade configuration with school climate for 7th and 8th grade students
Shukla, Kathan; Cornell, Dewey; Malone, Marisa (American Psychological Association, 2017)Educational authorities have questioned whether middle schools provide the best school climate for 7th and 8th grade students, and proposed that other grade configurations such as K– 8th grade schools may provide a better ... -
Does school climate mean the same thing in the United States as in Mexico? A focus on measurement invariance
Shukla, Kathan; Waasdorp, Tracy E.; Johnson, Sarah Lindstrom; Solis, Mercedes Gabriela Orozco; Nguyen, Amanda J.; Rodríguez, Cecilia Colunga; Bradshaw, Catherine P. (Sage, 2018)School climate is an important construct for guiding violence prevention efforts in U.S. schools, but there has been less consideration of this concept in its neighboring country Mexico, which has a higher prevalence of ... -
Engagement patterns of participants in an online professional development programme: an application of mixture modelling
Deshmukh, Ketan; Sherry Chand, Vijaya; Shukla, Kathan; Laha, Arnab Kumar (Proceedings of the 53rd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2020)Unhindered communication capabilities, in the form of internet, led us to believe that the difficult goal of “Education for All” is within our grasp. Recent studies have shown mixed results for learning over the internet, ... -
Estimating school climate traits across multiple informants: an Illustration of a multitrait–multimethod validation through latent variable modeling
Konold, Timothy R.; Shukla, Kathan (Taylor and Francis, 2017)The use of multiple informants is common in assessments that rely on the judgments of others. However, ratings obtained from different informants often vary as a function of their perspectives and roles in relation to ... -
Faculty-student coauthorship as a means to enhance STEM graduate students’ research skills
Feldon, David F.; Shukla, Kathan; Maher, Michelle Anne (Emerald, 2016)This study aims to examine the contribution of faculty–student coauthorship to the development of graduate students’ research skills in the sciences, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) by quantitatively ... -
Family deviance, self-control, deviant lifestyles, and youth violent victimization: a latent indirect effects analysis
Shukla, Kathan; Wiesner, Margit (Taylor & Francis Group, 2017-10-16)Research increasingly explores more complex relations of low self-control and context factors, such as structural constraints that limit behavioral lifestyle options, with violent victimization. The authors extend extant ... -
Improving the measurement of school climate using item response theory
Johnson, Sarah Lindstrom; Reichenberg, Ray E.; Shukla, Kathan; Waasdorp, Tracy E.; Bradshaw, Catherine P. (Educational Measurement: Issues and Practice, 2019)The U.S. government has become increasingly focused on school climate, as recently evidenced by its inclusion as an accountability indicator in the Every Student Succeeds Act. Yet, there remains considerable variability ... -
Measuring school climate: invariance across middle and high school students
Waasdorp, Tracy Evian; Johnson, Sarah Lindstrom; Shukla, Kathan; Bradshaw, Catherine P. (Children & Schools, 2020)Positive school climate has been consistently associated with many desirable student outcomes in both middle and high schools. However, there has been little work comparing the perceptions across these two school settings. ... -
Racial/ethnic differences in perceptions of school climate and its association with student engagement and peer aggression
Shukla, Kathan; Konold, T.; Cornell, D.; Huang, F. (Springer New York LLC, 2017)Research indicates that a positive school climate is associated with higher levels of student engagement and lower rates of peer aggression. However, less attention has been given to whether such findings are consistent ... -
Racial/ethnic parity in disciplinary consequences using student threat assessment
Cornell, Dewey; Maeng, Jennifer; Shukla, Kathan; Konold, Timothy R.; Huang, Francis (National Association of School Psychologists, 2018-06-13)School psychologists are frequently called upon to assess students who have made verbal or behavioral threats of violence against others, a practice commonly known as threat assessment. One critical issue is whether the ... -
A Two-step latent profile method for identifying invalid respondents in self-reported survey data
Shukla, Kathan (Taylor & Francis, 2017-04-17)Insincere respondents can have an adverse impact on the validity of substantive inferences arising from self-administered questionnaires (SAQs). The current study introduces a new method for identifying potentially invalid ...