PO781: Examining Threat Assessment and Student Perceptions of Climate and Safety

  • PMD: 4,6
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 3: Promoting Safe and Positive Schools

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. learn best practice considerations for conducting behavioral threat assessments at school;
  2. examine data comparing schools that were trained to utilize comprehensive threat assessment plans and their correlation with student perceptions of school climate; and
  3. evaluate how gender, racial/ethnic identity, and disability status influence student perceptions of school climate on behavioral threat assessment.

Description

This session present results from a study examining if student perceptions of school climate and safety are impacted by the use of threat assessments in middle and high schools.

Presenter(s)

Katie Eklund, PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Ellen C. Anderson, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Kristen M. Dyson, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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