Issues in School Violence Research

by Skiba; Rusell

• ISBN13: 9780789025807
• ISBN10: 0789025809
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-10-12
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Explore the most effective methods of studying school violence! School violence and safety research will move forward and make unique scientific contributions only if it develops a core literature that critically examines its measurements, methods, and data analysis techniques. Issues in School Violence Research is the first book to expose the limitations of previous research, to critically examine methodological and measurement practices, and to provide guidelines to enhance future school violence research. Early literature focused on school violence as a social problem, not as an integrated area of legitimate scientific research. It is time to move beyond the social problem era of school violence to begin critically assessing its common research practices. Until recently, there has been such a rush to gather information about school violence that the methods used have hardly been questioned. The editors of this book are some of the first to raise questions about how the field conducts its research, especially with regard to self-reports among students. Issues in School Violence Research addresses significant measurement and methodological issues in school violence research. The contributors have been conducting school research for more than 15 years. To enhance your understanding of the practices used--past and proposed--numerous tables are included. In Issues in School Violence Research, you'll find information about: school-level warning signs of safety problems weapon possession using office referral records in school violence research identification of bullies and victims data quality issues in student risk behavior surveys extreme response bias patterns for youth risk behavior surveys the structure of student perceptions of school safety and much more! Issues in School Violence Research is an important resource for anyone, from professors to policymakers. It is also appropriate as a textbook for research methodology courses. It is only through objective analysis that school violence research can develop new insights. This book presents topics that should stimulate new and better inquiry into the climate within which school violence occurs.

Author Biography

Michael J. Furlong is Program Chair of the Counseling/Clinical/School Psychology Program and Professor in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara Gale M. Morrison is Professor in the Counseling/Clinical/School Psychology Program in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara Russell Skiba is Professor in the School Psychology Program at Indiana University. He received his doctorate from the University of Minnesota Dewey G. Cornell is a clinical psychologist and Professor of Education in the Curry School of Education at the University of Virginia

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION
Issues in School Violence Research	1	(4)
Edwin R. Gerler, Jr.
ARTICLES
Methodological and Measurement Issues in School Violence Research: Moving Beyond the Social Problem Era	5	(8)
Michael J. Furlong
Gale M. Morrison
Dewey G. Cornell
Russell Skiba
Warning Signs of Problems in Schools: Ecological Perspectives and Effective Practices for Combating School Aggression and Violence	13	(26)
David Osher
Richard VanAcker
Gale M. Morrison
Robert Gable
Kevin Dwyer
Mary Quinn
Using Office Referral Records in School Violence Research: Possibilities and Limitations	39	(24)
Gale Al. Morrison
Reece Peterson
Stacy O'Farrell
Megan Redding
Identification of Bullies and Victims: A Comparison of Methods	63	(26)
Dewey G. Cornell
Karen Brockenbrough
Data Quality in Student Risk Behavior Surveys and Administrator Training	89	(20)
Jennifer E. Cross
Rebecca Newman-Gonchar
An Examination of the Reliability, Data Screening Procedures, and Extreme Response Patterns for the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey	109	(22)
Michael J. Furlong
Jill D. Sharkey
Michael P. Bates
Douglas C. Smith
Structural Equation Modeling of School Violence Data: Methodological Considerations	131	(18)
Matthew J. Mayer
Beyond Guns, Drugs and Gangs: The Structure of Student Perceptions of School Safety	149
Russell Skiba
Ada B. Simmons
Reece Peterson
Janet McKelvey
Susan Forde
Sarah Gallini