Quality Middle Schools

This book is the result of nearly two decades of research and development into providing educational researchers with a set of reliable and valid measures to study the nature of middle schools, and practitioners with a set of tools to evaluate their school climate with an aim towards organizational improvement.

Preface

vii

(3)

About the Authors

x

(2)

About the Collaborators

xii

1. Climate, Culture, and Quality

1

(26)

The Workplace

2

(1)

Organizational Climate

3

(1)

Organizational Culture

4

(1)

Climate or Culture?

5

(2)

Two Perspectives on School Climate: Using Personality and Health Metaphors

7

(12)

Quality Schools

19

(6)

Summary

25

(2)

2. The Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire for Middle Schools

27

(26)

Developing a New Climate Measure: The OCDQ-RM

29

(3)

The Revised Middle School Instrument (OCDQ-RM): Another Test

32

(8)

Openness and Authenticity: Some Hypotheses and a Test

40

(3)

A Typology of Middle School Climates

43

(3)

Summary and Discussion

46

(2)

Implications

48

(5)

3. The Organizational Health Inventory for Middle Schools

53

(26)

Developing a New School Health Measure: The OHI-M

54

(5)

A Further Test of the Middle School Instrument (OHI-M)

59

(7)

Organizational Health and Faculty Trust: Some Hypotheses and a Test

66

(4)

A Comparison of Elements of School Health for Elementary, Middle, and High Schools

70

(2)

Summary and Discussion

72

(3)

Implications

75

(4)

4. Research Findings on School Openness, School Health, and School Quality

79

(45)

A Methodological Note

80

(1)

School Climate and Student Achievement

81

(8)

School Climate and Overall School Effectiveness

89

(3)

School Climate and Measures of Culture

92

(9)

School Quality

101

(2)

A Parsimonious View of Climate

103

(10)

General Observations

113

(3)

Some Implications for Researchers

116

(3)

Implications for Administrators

119

(5)

5. Using the OCDQ-RM and the OHI-M: A Practical Guide to Action

124

(49)

Organizational Climate Description Questionnaire for Middle Schools (OCDQ-RM): Conceptual Foundations

125

(4)

The OCDQ-RM Form

129

(13)

The Organizational Health Inventory for Middle Schools (OHI-M): Conceptual Foundations

142

(3)

The OHI-M Form

145

(10)

Changing School Climate

155

(3)

Sandburg Middle School

158

(13)

Conclusion

171

(2)

Appendix

173

(11)

OCDQ-RM

173

(2)

Dimensions of Organizational Climate (OCDQ-RM)

175

(1)

OCDQ-RM Profile

176

(1)

OHI-M

177

(2)

Dimensions of Organizational Health of Middle Schools (OHI-M)

179

(1)

OHI-M Profile

180

(1)

Data Report Form

181

(2)

Computer Scoring Program Order Form

183

(1)

References

184

(10)

Index

194

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Quality Middle Schools

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