Assessing the unit of measurement for school climate through psychometric and outcome analyses of the school climate survey

Educational and Psychological Measurement

Volumn 63, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 1002-1019

  Van Horn, M Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

School assessment; School climate; Unit of theory

Indexed keywords

EID: 0345491380     PISSN: 00131644     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0013164403251317     Document Type: Article

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