Issues in School Violence Research
Price: $39.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-7890-2580-7
- Binding: Paperback (also available in Hardback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 12th October 2004
- Pages: 196
About the Book
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!
Table of Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- Issues in School Violence Research (Edwin R. Gerler, Jr.)
- ARTICLES
- Methodological and Measurement Issues in School Violence Research: Moving Beyond the Social Problem Era (Michael J. Furlong, Gale M. Morrison, Dewey G. Cornell, and Russell Skiba)
- Warning Signs of Problems in Schools: Ecological Perspectives and Effective Practices for Combating School Aggression and Violence (David Osher, Richard VanAcker, Gale M. Morrison, Robert Gable, Kevin Dwyer, and Mary Quinn)
- Using Office Referral Records in School Violence Research: Possibilities and Limitations (Gale M. Morrison, Reece Peterson, Stacy O’Farrell, and Megan Redding)
- Identification of Bullies and Victims: A Comparison of Methods (Dewey G. Cornell and Karen Brockenbrough)
- Data Quality in Student Risk Behavior Surveys and Administrator Training (Jennifer E. Cross and Rebecca Newman-Gonchar)
- An Examination of the Reliability, Data Screening Procedures, and Extreme Response Patterns for the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey (Michael J. Furlong, Jill D. Sharkey, Michael P. Bates, and Douglas C. Smith)
- Structural Equation Modeling of School Violence Data: Methodological Considerations (Matthew J. Mayer)
- Beyond Guns, Drugs and Gangs: The Structure of Student Perceptions of School Safety (Russell Skiba, Ada B. Simmons, Reece Peterson, Janet McKelvey, Susan Ford, and Sarah Gallini)
- Index
- Reference Notes Included
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