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Center on PBIS | Resource: School Climate Survey Suite

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PDF: The School Climate Survey Suite is a set of four multidimensional surveys to measure student, teacher, administrator, faculty, and family perceptions of school climate: elementary, middle/high, school personnel, and family. The surveys are brief, reliable, and valid for assessing perceived school climate among students in Grades 3-12. Teams can use each survey separately or in combination to assess perceptions. Each survey includes a set of demographic questions about the participant and a number of questions related to school climate with Likert-scale response option.

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This webinar provides an overview of the suite of School Climate Surveys available and how they can be used to measure and assess school climate. Topics to be covered include: Administration of the surveys, data entry and reporting options within PBIS Assessment, and how the information can inform decision making and school climate improvement.

Are you looking for a way to measure and assess school climate? PBIS Assessment currently contains a suite of climate surveys that can be used either independently or collectively to evaluate school climate. The three versions available are: Student version (Elementary and MS/HS), School Personnel, and Families. This webinar will include information on administering the school climate surveys, how to enter data into PBIS Assessment, the reporting options available, and how to use that information for decision making and action planning.

Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to:

Understand the purpose and use of each of the climate surveys in the School Climate Survey suite

Administer the survey to key stakeholders

Input survey data into PBIS Assessment

View survey reports within PBIS Assessment

Analyze the survey data to support decision making and action planning

PBIS Assessment Coordinators and Users

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Using the School Climate Survey Suite to Measure and Assess School Climate

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This webinar provides an overview of the suite of School Climate Surveys available and how they can be used to measure and assess school climate. Topics to be covered include: Administration of the surveys, data entry and reporting options within PBIS Assessment, and how the information can inform decision making and school climate improvement.

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When you talk about your PBIS implementation, there are two questions to regularly ask:

Are we doing what we said we would do?

How does our implementation affect the people in our school?

Taking the Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI) informs the first question; taking the School Climate Surveys (SCS) informs the second.

What Does the SCS Do?

The SCS is a suite of five surveys to measure student, staff, and family perceptions of school climate. Each survey is a brief, valid, and reliable way to ask stakeholders how your school feels to them.

The SCS is also an anonymous, multiple-response survey. That means, once you open the survey windows, you'll get a series of links to send around to the affiliated groups. It should only take them around 10-20 minutes to complete. As responses come in, PBIS Assessment summarizes them into reports addressing each group, providing you with an overall picture of your implementation's impact on the people learning, teaching, and participating in your school every day.

Which Surveys Should I Use?

There are five surveys available to take within the SCS suite. Open a survey window in PBIS Assessment for as many of them as are appropriate for your school:

Elementary: For students between grades 3-5. (If your school includes grade 6, have them complete the elementary survey, too.)

Secondary (brief) and Secondary (extended): For students between grades 6-12.

School Personnel: For teachers, administrators, and anyone else working in your school.

Family: For parents, caregivers, and guardians of students enrolled at your school.

When Should I Take the SCS?

Schools take the SCS once or twice during the school year. If you take it once, you can easily watch how perceptions change from year-to-year. Taking the SCS twice a year helps you notice the major and minor changes in perceptions from the beginning of the year to the end.

What Happens After I Submit the SCS?

PBIS Assessment takes every climate survey submitted within a given window and summarizes them into the reports your team needs to improve school climate in your building. The reports available for the School Climate Survey vary depending on the survey you take.

The Total Score Report gives you an average score your participants gave as they took the survey. The closer a score is to five, the more positive participants feel about your school's climate.

A Subscale Report is available for the Family and School Personnel surveys. Subscales relate to specific areas of your school's climate that participants feel are working well or could be improved.

Drill down further into the data by reviewing the Items Report and identify some of the individual elements to add to your action plan.

Take another look at the data based on the demographics of the people who took the survey. See how your school feels to students, families, and school personnel depending on their race/ethnicity, gender, grade, or (for middle/high schools only) sexual orientation. To make sure responses remain anonymous, if a demographic subgroup has fewer than five respondents associated with it, the results won't display. However, their responses are always included in the Total Score, Subscale, and Items reports.

The School Climate Survey helps teams gain insight into how school personnel, students, and their families feel when they walk into your building. Use their responses as a starting point to create the kind of place where everyone wants to be.

For more details on taking the SCS, check out these resources.

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The SCS is a suite of four surveys to measure student, staff, and family perceptions of school climate. Each survey is a brief, valid, and reliable way to ask stakeholders how your school feels to them.

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October 2021 Office Hours Acknowledgements

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October 2021 Office Hours Acknowledgements

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Schoology allows instructors, students and administrators to create a meaningful virtual classroom and extend learning beyond the boundaries of the physical classroom

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Teacher/Staff Interview TFI Walkthrough Video

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Teacher/Staff Interview TFI Walkthrough Video

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How To Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI) Walkthrough Tool Part Two: Teacher Interview

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The second video in this How To Series demonstrates the Tiered Fidelity Inventory Walkthrough Tool teacher interview (Algozzine et al., 2014). This includes a video demonstration, explanation regarding the components of the interview, and demonstrates how to utilize the form for the walkthrough created by Tennessee Behavior Supports Project (TBSP). This video production was brought to you by Tennessee Behavior Supports Project at University of Tennessee.

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How To Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI) Walkthrough Tool Part Three: Student Interview

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The third video in this How To Series demonstrates the Tiered Fidelity Inventory Walkthrough Tool student interview (Algozzine et al., 2014). This includes a video demonstration, explanation regarding the components of the interview, and demonstrates how to utilize the form for the walkthrough created by Tennessee Behavior Supports Project (TBSP). This video production was brought to you by Tennessee Behavior Supports Project at University of Tennessee.

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Facility-Wide Tiered Fidelity Inventory (FW-TFI)

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Facility-Wide Tiered Fidelity Inventory (FW-TFI)

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Data guide every part of PBIS implementation and the decisions teams make along the way. Some of those data come from regularly assessing the systems and practices supporting PBIS. The tools included here are all created through the OSEP Technical Assistance Center on PBIS, are valid and reliable, and (most importantly) free!

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Data guide every part of PBIS implementation and the decisions teams make along the way. Some of those data come from regularly assessing the systems and practices supporting PBIS. The tools included here are all created through the OSEP Technical Assistance Center on PBIS, are valid and reliable, and (most importantly) free!

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Schoology allows instructors, students and administrators to create a meaningful virtual classroom and extend learning beyond the boundaries of the physical classroom

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Schoology allows instructors, students and administrators to create a meaningful virtual classroom and extend learning beyond the boundaries of the physical classroom