Eskola giroa: definizioa, domeinuak, beste aldagaiekin harremana eta ebaluazioa

Abstract

The study of school climate is interesting from a contextual perspective of student assessment. Nevertheless, school climate is a difficult construct to analyze and assess, mainly due to the fact that it has a multidimensional structure that has been understood from a number of different angles. A great deal of confusion still exists regarding the terminology used to refer to this construct, and its internal structure has yet to be clearly defined. In order to clarify this issue, the main aim of the present study was to conduct a theoretical review of the school climate construct, as well as to analyse the instruments designed to measure it. The study concludes that although a diverse range of instruments have been developed in Anglo-American countries to assess the different dimensions of the construct, there is a lack of widely-accepted and validated measures in the Spanish language. Thus, there is a need to develop an instrument in Spanish that complies with the universal standards of reliability and validity and which evaluates the four domains which have the broadest support at a theoretical leve (safety, relationships, environmental-structural aspects and teaching-learning).This question will be addressed in future studies.