Exemplars of school evaluations: Correlates of perceived effectiveness of the Safe Schools and Healthy Students Initiative (original) (raw)

Abstract

A three-level growth curve model was applied to estimate school-perceived impact growth trajectories, using multi-year data on outcome and progrma implementation from project and school surveys collected from 40 grantees and 3,300 participating schools. Primary interest is to determine whether and how project-level correlates affect schools' perceptions of the initiatiative's effectiveness over time when effects of pre-grant community and otehr environmental conditions are considered. Comprehensive programs and activities were found to be a significant predictor of initial increases in perceived overall impact of the initiative, of safety and violence prevention activities, and of substance use prevention activities even when the effect of funding was considered. Coordination and service integration activities were significantly related to mean rate of growth for substance use prevention over a three-year period. The paper demonstrates that this type of longitudinal grwoth c...

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