School Records – Disciplinary Actions – Revised
Abstract: School Records: Disciplinary Actions - Revised is a 20-item tool used to collect information from school records about disciplinary events for a child during the previous school year. This measure was created for the Fast Track Project as a modification of both the School Archival Records Search (SARS, Walker et al., 1991) and the Sugai-Tobin archival review for kindergarten, elementary, and/or middle school (STAR, Sugai and Tobin, 2001). This measure collects the date of any event requiring discipline and the corresponding reason for the disciplinary action on that date. Seven items list reason categories: Physical Fighting/Violence, Verbal Harassment, Non-Violent Activity (such as skipping class or defying authority), Weapons Possession, Vandalism/Theft, Possession of a Controlled Substance, and Reason Missing. Response choices are "yes (1)" and "no (0)." Another group of items collects information about the consequences of the event: Low or Medium Consequence, High-Level Consequence, Suspension, Expulsion (denied entrance to school for one month or longer), and Action Missing. For suspension, the number of days is recorded. In Year 12, a "gatekeeper" question was introduced by expanding response choices for "Are there any disciplinary actions in the school record?" Aside from the responses of "Yes" (1) and "No" (0), codes for settings in which it would be inappropriate to collect disciplinary records were also available. This measure contains no subscales. For Year 12, t-tests of means of disciplinary events and consequences for the normative and control groups show significant differences for several items: the Total Number of Disciplinary Events, Fighting, Verbal Harassment, Non-Violent Events, Vandalism/Theft, and Total Number of Violent Events. Actions that show significant differences are those involving Low Consequences, High Consequences, and Suspension. Chi-square results for Year 12 suggest that a recorded occurrence of one or more disciplinary events can distinguish high-risk from normative students. Depending on the construct under investigation, disciplinary records collected with the Disciplinary Actions tool should be useful to analysts.
Who Completed this Measure?: Observer
Cohort 1 - Administrative History
- Year 12 | grade 11 | age 17
- Year 13 | grade 12 | age 18
- Year 14 | age 19
- Year 15 | age 20
Cohort 2 - Administrative History
- Year 11 | grade 10 | age 16
- Year 12 | grade 11 | age 17
- Year 13 | grade 12 | age 18
- Year 14 | age 19
- Year 15 | age 20
Cohort 3 - Administrative History
- Year 10 | grade 9 | age 15
- Year 11 | grade 10 | age 16
- Year 12 | grade 11 | age 17
- Year 13 | grade 12 | age 18
- Year 14 | age 19
- Year 15 | age 20
Technical Reports:
Raw Dataset Name: OyR
Scored Dataset Name: DARySPc
Keywords:
Controlled Substance Possession, Disciplinary Actions, Expulsion, Non-Violent Activity, Physical Fighting, Suspension, Theft, Vandalism, Verbal Harassment, Violence, Weapons Possession
Is this Measure Available for Public Use?: Yes
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Measure Items and Scales:
| O12R9 | Date of Action |
| cohort | Cohort |
| site | Study Site |
| tcid | Study ID Number |
| cO12R5 | Academic Year |
| O12R4 | Is Child a Sibling of the Target Child? |
| O12R6 | Name of the School |
| O12R7 | Youths Grade |
| O12R8 | Are there any disciplinary actions in their school record? |
| O12R10 | Physical fighting/violence |
| O12R11 | Verbal harassment-annoying, bothering or tormenting another person |
| O12R12 | Non-violent(skipping class, defiance, disruption) |
| O12R13 | Weapons |
| O12R14 | Vandalism/Theft |
| O12R15 | Possession of controlled substance |
| O12R16 | Reason for Action Missing |
| O12R17 | Action Taken-Low or medium consequence |
| O12R18 | Action Taken-High level consequence |
| O12R19 | Action Taken-Suspension out of school |
| O12R20 | Number of days suspensed |
| O12R21 | Action Taken-Expulsion |
| O12R22 | Action Taken-Administrative Action Missing |
| O12R23 | Rate the completeness of the record |
| O12R9s | (SAS)Date of Action |
| sitecode | Actual Sitecode Entered |
| TREATMNT | Treatment Group (Interv/Cntl) |
| NORM | Members of Normative Sample |
| SEX | Sex |
| RACE | Race |
| tot_viol | tot_viol |
| ctevent | Count of o12r8-Events |
| ct10fight | Count of o12r10-Fighting |
| ct11harass | Count of o12r11-Verbal harassment |
| ct12nonv | Count of o12r12-Non-violent |
| ct13weapon | Count of o12r13-Weapons |
| ct14vandal | Count of o12r14-Vandalism/theft |
| ct15substance | Count of o12r15-Controlled substance |
| ct16evmiss | Count of o12r16-Reason for action missing |
| ct17lowcon | Count of o12r17-Low consequence |
| ct18hicon | Count of o12r18-High consequence |
| ct19suspend | Count of o12r19-Suspension |
| ct21expel | Count of o12r21-Expulsion |
| ct22consmiss | Count of o12r22-Consequences missing |
| ct_tot_viol | Count of Violence-total acts |