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Abstract
Many research-based safety strategies and school violence prevention measures are available for schools to implement; however, little is known about which strategies are important to students. The current study was designed to explore students' perceptions of the importance of specified safety strategies. A new quantitative measure (Indicators of Preferences for School Safety [IPSS]) was developed using successful safety strategies and best practices identified in the current literature. A principal components analysis of 184 student reports revealed that four factors emerged from the IPSS survey: Rule Enforcement, Education, Control and Surveillance, and Counseling. Additionally, grade level differences were found in students' perceptions of these four categories, but gender differences were not evident.
This study was supported by the GRAFF Graduate Research Award and the Alberta Hill Award through the Human Development Department and College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Resource Sciences (CAHNRS) at Washington State University. Data from this study was also presented at the Association for Psychological Sciences (APS) annual conference in Chicago, IL in May 2008. The authors would like to thank Tom Power and Claire Ponitz for their helpful feedback on early drafts of this article, and for the students and teachers who participated in this study.