International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE)
Vol 4, No 3: September 2015

The Impact of Visual Impairment on Perceived School Climate

Benjamin P. Schade (Youngstown State University)
Karen H Larwin (Youngstown State University)



Article Info

Publish Date
01 Sep 2015

Abstract

The current investigation examines whether visual impairment has an impact on a student’s perception of the school climate. Using a large national sample of high school students, perceptions were examined for students with vision impairment relative to students with no visual impairments. Three factors were examined: self-reported level of happiness, perception of a positive school climate, and negative school affect.  Results revealed no differences for the seeing and visually impaired students on self-reported happiness and perception of a positive school climate factors, however significant differences were found on the negative school affect factor. Additionally, gender was significantly related to the negative school affect factor.

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Journal Info

Abbrev

IJERE

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Subject

Education

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The International Journal of Evaluation and Research in Education (IJERE) is an interdisciplinary publication of original research and writing on education which publishes papers to international audiences of educational researchers. The IJERE aims to provide a forum for scholarly understanding of ...