Class Size

• "Are Small Schools and Private Schools Better for Adolescents' Emotional Adjustment?" (2003) American Sociological Association
• Breaking Up Large High Schools: Five Common (and Understandable) Errors of Execution
• Classroom Environment Scale
• Class Size Reduction: Lessons Learned from Experience
• Dollars and Sense: The Cost Effectiveness of Small Schools(PDF document)
• Guideposts for Smaller High Schools: Lessons from Inside and Outside the School Walls (2002)
• "School Size, Violence, Cost, and Achievement" (2003) A report to the NJ Commission on Business Efficiency of Public Schools

Learning Environment

• A Framework for Success for All Students(PDF)
• All Together Now: Sharing Responsibility for the Child. (2006)(PDF)
• Block Scheduling: The Key to Quality Learning Time
• Center for Social Organization of Schools
• Creating an Effective Physical Classroom Environment
• Creating a Personalized and Orderly Learning Environment in High School
• Flexible School Facilities
• Healthy Learning Environments
• Impact of Facilities on Learning (National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities)
• In Our Backyard: How 3 L.A. Neighborhoods Affect Kids' Lives (2002)
• Instructional Approaches: A Framework for Professional Practice
• The Learning Partnerships Specialist: Building the New and Needed Web of Learning Support
• Making Schools Places Where Everyone Succeeds: Belonging is Necessary for Learning
• Meeting Five Critical Challenges of High School Reform: Lessons from Research on Three Reform Models (2006) J. Quinn.
• National Center for School Engagement
• National Clearinghouse for Comprehensive School Reform
• National Dignity in Schools Campaign
• New Century Schoolhouse
• Problem-Based Learning
• School As A Caring Community Profile—II (SCCP-II)
• A School's Culture: Positive or Negative?
• Social and School Connectedness in Early Secondary School as Predictors of Late Teenage Substance Use, Mental Health, and Academic Outcomes (2007) L. Bond, et al., Journal of Adolescent Health, 40(4) 357-66
• Some Simple and Yet Overlooked Common Sense Tips For A More Effective Classroom Environment
• Student Context, Student Attitudes and Behavior, and Academic Achievement
• Years of Promise: A Comprehensive Learning Strategy for America's Children

Classroom/School Climate

• "Altering the Structure and Culture of American Public Schools" (2003)
• Annenberg Institute for School Reform
• California Healthy Kids Survey
• Climate and Diversity of Educational Institutions
• Kettering Scale of School Climate
• Positive School Climate
• School Climate
• The School Climate Challenge Narrowing the Gap Between School Climate Research and School Climate Policy, Practice Guidelines and Teacher Education Policy
• School Climate Predictors of School Disorder: Results from a National Study of Delinquency Prevention in Schools (2005) G. Gottfredson et al, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency
• Where We Learn: The CUBE Survey of Urban School Climate (PDF)

Related Agencies and Websites

• National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities
• The Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning (CASEL)
• Coalition for Community Schools
• Urban Educational Facilities for the 21st Century (UEF 21)

Relevant Publications That Can Be Obtained Through Libraries

• "Classroom social climate and student absences and grades" by Moos, R., & Moos, B. (1978). In: Journal of Educational Psychology, 70, 263-269.
• "Context and coping: Toward a unifying conceptual framework" by Moos R (1984). In: American Journal of Community Psychology, 12: 5-25.
• "Evaluating and changing class room settings" by Moos, R., & David, T. (1981).  In J. Epstein (Ed.), The quality of school life (pp. 59-80). Lexington, MA: D. C. Heath.
• "Evaluating classroom learning environments" by Moos R (1980). In: Studies in Educational Evaluation, 6: 239-252.
• Evaluating educational environments: Procedures, methods, findings and policy implications by Moos R (1979). San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.
• "Learning environments in context: Links between school, work, and family settings" by Moos R (1987). In: Fraser B (Ed.), The Study of Learning Environments (Volume 2, p 1-16). Perth, Australia: Curtin University of Technology.
• Living an idea: Empowerment and the evolution of an inner city alternative public school by Trickett, E. J. (1991). Cambridge, MA.: Brookline Books.
• "Natural experiments and the educational context: The environment and effects of an alternative inner city public school on adolescents" by Trickett, E. J., McConahay, J. B., Phillips, D., & Ginter, M. A. (1985). In: American Journal of Community Psychology, 13, 617-643.
• "Personal correlates of contrasting environments: Student satisfaction in high school classrooms" by Trickett, E., & Moos, R. (1974). In: American Journal of Community Psychology, 2,1-12.
• "Person-environment congruence in work, school, and health care settings" by Moos, RH (1987). In: Journal of Vocational Behavior, 31: 231-247.
• "Safe & Caring Schools Grades 6-8: Hundreds of Ways to Improve Academic Success and School Climate" by Katia Petersen (2008). Free Spirit Publishing.
• "A School for Each Student: Personalization in a Climate of High Expectations (Paperback)" by Nelson Beaudoin (2008). Pub: Eye on Education.
• "The perceived environment of special education classrooms for adolescents: A revision of the Classroom Environment Scale" by Trickett, E. J., Leone, P. E., Fink, C. M., & Braaten, S. L. (1993). In: Exceptional Children, 59(5), 411-420.
• The Social Climate Scales: A user's guide by Moos, R. (1994). Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
• "The social environments of junior high and high school classrooms" by Trickett, E., & Moos, R. (1973). In: Journal of Educational Psychology, 65, 93-102.
• "Three domains of classroom environment: An alternative analysis of the Classroom Environment Scale" by Trickett, E., & Quinlan, D. (1979). In: American Journal of Community Psychology, 7, 279-291.
• "Towards a social-ecological conception of adolescent socialization: Normative data on contrasting types of public schools" by Trickett, E. (1978). In: Child Development, 49, 408-414.
• "Two decades of classroom environment research" by Fraser B (1991). In: Fraser B & Walberg HJ, Educational Environments: Evaluation, Antecedents, and Consequences. (pp. 3-27). Oxford, England: Pergamon Press, Inc.
• "A Typology of Junior High and High School Classrooms" by Moos R (1978). In: American Educational Research Journal, 15: 53-66.
• "Understanding environments: the key to improving social processes and program outcomes" by Moos RH (1996). In: American Journal of Community Psychology, 24(1): 193-201.
• "Understanding the social ecology of classrooms for adolescents with behavioral disorders: A preliminary study of differences in perceived environments" by Leone PE, Luttig PG, Zlotlow S, & Trickett EJ (1990). In: Behavioral Disorders, 16(1): 55-65.
• "Using individual or group scores on perceived environment scales: Classroom Environment Scale as example" by Trickett, E., & Wilkinson, L. (1979). In: American Journal of Community Psychology, 7, 497-502.
• "Violence Prevention for Adolescents: A Cognitive-Behavioral Program for Creating a Positive School Climate: Leaders Manual (Paperback)" by Diane De Anda (2007). Research Press.

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