For Schools
School Climate Walkthrough
The School Climate Walkthrough is a web-based school climate assessment tool for secondary schools.
Students complete “the Walkthrough” in two parts over the course of a typical school day:
15 minutes in the morning, answering questions about their overall opinions of their school
15 minutes in the afternoon, completing a checklist of their observations from that day at school.
The tool offers instantaneous scoring and a digital report covering nine domains of school climate including safety, relationships, teaching quality, and respect for diversity. Results of the survey are automatically displayed once all participants submit their responses and are interpretable by the students themselves. Interactive features of the report allow users to explore overall scores as well as any areas in which various demographic groups of students may be reporting significantly disparate experiences.
The app can be used by students, educators, and leaders to start taking action towards positive change in their school communities, and school climate domains are aligned with potential project ideas and actionable steps available in the inspirED resource libraries: activities and projects.
Hoffmann, J. D., Baumsteiger, R., Seibyl, J., Hills, E., Bradley, C., Cipriano, C., & Brackett, M. A. (2022). Building useful, web-based educational measures for students, with students: An illustrative demonstration with The School Climate Walkthrough Tool for high schools. Assessment in Education: Principles, Policy & Practice, 29:1, 95-120, https://doi.org/10.1080/0969594X.2022.2056576
Hoffmann, J., De France, K., McGarry, J. (2022). Creativity, Compassion, and Connection: The Impact of inspirED with Secondary School Students. Journal of Intelligence, 11 (1), 8. https://doi.org/10.3390/jintelligence11010008
Baumsteiger, R. Hoffmann, J. D., Seibyl, J., Rose, B., & Brackett, M. A. (under review). Understanding and Improving School Climate: A Systematic Review of Assessments and Recommended Next Steps.
Publications
Baumsteiger, R. & De France, K. (2022, July). Adolescents' affective experiences: The influence of home, school, technology, and a school-based program [Conference Symposium]. International Society for Research on Emotion Annual Meeting, Los Angeles, CA.
Hoffmann, J. D., Baumsteiger, R., & Seibyl, J. (2022, April). School Climate Walkthrough measure: A validation study [Paper presentation]. American Educational Research Association Annual Meeting, San Diego.
Hoffmann, J. D., Baumsteiger, R., & Seibyl, J. (August, 2021). The School Climate Walkthrough: A tool for understanding school climate in secondary schools [Poster presentation]. American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Virtual.
Seibyl, J., Baumsteiger, R., & Hoffmann, J. (2021, August). Same School, Different Experience: Exploring Group Differences Through School Climate Profile Analyses [Poster presentation]. American Psychological Association Annual Meeting, Virtual.
Hoffmann, J. D., Baumsteiger, R., McGarry, J., Seibyl, J., Brackett, M.A. (April, 2021). How to Create More Useful Measures: The Development of a Web-based Application for Assessing School Climate in Secondary Schools. In J. Montgomery (Chair). Innovative Approaches to Measuring Social Emotional Learning. Presentation at the American Educational Research Association annual convention.
Hoffmann, J.D. (2019, November). The Importance of a Person-centered Approach to Measuring School Climate: Raising Every Student’s Voice. Presentation at the International Bullying Prevention Association Conference, Chicago, IL.
Cipriano, C., Floman, J., Hoffmann, J., & Willner, C. (2019, October). Building the Assessments We Need: The Development of new actionable SEL data-points for teachers. CASEL SEL Exchange, Chicago, IL.
Bradley, C. Hoffmann, J. D. & McGarry, J. (2019, March). A Person-Centered Approach to Measuring School Climate: Capturing Between- and Within-School Variability in Student Experiences. Poster presentation at the meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, Washington, DC.