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Measuring School Spirit: A National Teaching Exercise

2004; SAGE Publishing; Volume: 31; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1207/s15328023top3101_5

1532-8023

Alabama-Huntsville Sandra, Tamara Rowatt, Lisa Brooks, Victoria Magid, Robert Stage, Paulette M. Wydro, Steve Cramer, Marie Walker, Connie Wolfe, Royce Singleton, Harold Sigall, Angela Eichelberger, Julie Jordan, Samantha L. Leaf, Jon Grahe, Ryan P. Brown, Janet K. Swim, Nicholas B. Pearson, Chris Wetzel, Mark V. Pezzo, Samuel D. Gosling, Kim MacLin, Alan Reifman, Brandon Awbrey, Collyn Wright, Page Jerzak, Steven M. Samuels, Greg Lemmond, Mark R. Leary, Catherine Setay,

Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression

We developed a novel variation on classroom data collection by having students conduct a national research project. Students at 20 different colleges and universities measured “school spirit” at their institutions according to several operational criteria (school apparel wearing, car stickers, alumni donation rate, ratings by a major sports publication, and questionnaire measures). Instructors then combined this information into one large dataset, allowing students to analyze and compare trends measured at their school with those measured at other schools. We discuss the process of organizing a national study (recruitment of faculty participants, dissemination of instruments, compilation of data), aspects of the project that instructors thought were most educationally valuable, and substantive results of the study (how well the different measures of school spirit correlated).