Browsing Journal Articles by Author "Waasdorp, Tracy E."

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    • 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 ...

    • 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 ...