Open Schools/Healthy Schools

by Hoy, Wayne K.; Tarter, C. John; Kottkamp, Robert B.

• ISBN13: 9780803937840
• ISBN10: 0803937849
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1991-03-01
• Publisher: Corwin Pr

Summary

Is your school a good, healthy place to work? Does the organizational climate contribute to academic achievement? Do you know how to evaluate the factors that can directly affect the effectiveness of education? Open Schools//Healthy Schools offers the basis for answering these and other questions. The authors demonstrate the significant relationship that exists between school health and academic performance. They then present the measures, developed over many years of careful research, that can best test the organizational climate of any school. The book combines research findings, discussions and implications with hands-on, practical material. For educational administrators or evaluators, complete questionnaires devised by the authors are provided with detailed instructions on coding and result analysis. Summaries of previous test scores correlated with descriptions of real schools help practitioners understand the health and organizational climate of their own schools.

Table of Contents

The Nature of the Workplace

The Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire for Elementary Schools

The Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire for Secondary Schools

The Organizational Health Inventory for Secondary Schools

The Organizational Health Inventory for Elementary Schools

Research Results on School Health and Climate

Using the Health and Climate

Instruments A Practical Guide

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