ABSTRACT

Practical educational assessment tools for adolescents champion student voice, use technology to enhance engagement, highlight discrepancies in school experience, and provide actionable feedback. We report a series of studies that detail an iterative process for developing a new school climate assessment tool: (1) item generation that centres student voice, (2) the design of a web-based app, (3) item revisions informed by student and educator feedback, and (4) the identification and confirmation of the underlying factor structure of the assessment tool. The resulting School Climate Walkthrough provides scores on nine dimensions of school climate and 73 additional observational items. The web-based application produces instantaneous reports that display systemic differences in how various student demographic groups experience school. This process can guide future research in building the next generation of educational assessments for adolescents and disrupting harmful or exclusionary school practices.

摘要

实用的青少年教育评估工具支持学生的声音，使用技术来提高参与度，突出学校体验中的差异，并提供可操作的反馈。我们报告了一系列研究，详细介绍了开发新学校气候评估工具的迭代过程：（1）以学生声音为中心的项目生成，（2）基于网络的应用程序的设计，（3）学生通知的项目修订和教育者的反馈，以及 (4) 评估工具潜在因素结构的识别和确认。由此产生的学校气候演练提供了九个学校气候维度的分数和 73 个额外的观察项目。基于网络的应用程序生成即时报告，显示不同学生人口群体在学校体验方面的系统差异。