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Peer reviewedEpstein, Joyce L.; McPartland, James M. – American Educational Research Journal, 1976
A 27-item Quality of School Life scale is presented, which shows reliability and validity across educational levels (elementary, middle and high school) based on 4,266 student survey responses. Concurrent and discriminative validity is demonstrated using measures of academic achievement, participation, personality, family background, and…
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Elementary Secondary Education, Factor Structure, Participant Satisfaction
Peer reviewedJohnson, William L.; Johnson, Annabel M. – Educational and Psychological Measurement, 1993
Primary and second-order principal components analyses were performed on the Quality of School Life Scale (QSL), a measure of elementary school climate, for responses of 141 fourth through sixth graders. Findings suggest three general factors, but item composition of subscales differs somewhat from that proposed by the QSL's developers. (SLD)
Descriptors: Correlation, Educational Environment, Elementary School Students, Factor Analysis
