Identifying profiles of students’ school climate perceptions using PISA 2015 data

Large-scale Assessments in Education

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Table 2 Descriptive statistics, range, skewness and kurtosis for the school climate variables

Variables	M	SD	Min	Max	Skewness	Kurtosis	Score
DISCLI	0.14	0.93	− 2.42	1.88	− 0.18	0.27	WLE
TEACHSUP	0.06	0.99	− 2.72	1.45	− 0.35	− 0.10	WLE
BELONG	0.22	1.13	− 3.15	2.61	0.31	0.56	WLE
EMOSUP	0.07	1.00	− 3.08	1.10	− 0.59	− 0.48	WLE
PERFEED	-0.01	0.97	− 1.53	2.50	0.38	0.10	WLE
FAIR	14.09	4.16	0.00	23.00	− 1.34	1.53	Sum score^a
ANTIBULL	1.71	0.59	0.00	2.16	− 1.27	0.89	WLE^a

DISCLI disciplinary climate, TEACHSUP teacher support, BELONG sense of belonging, EMOSUP parents’ emotional support for school, PERFEED perceived feedback from science teachers, FAIR reversed score of ‘Unfairteacher’, ANTIBULL reversed score of ‘Beingbullied’, WLE weighted mean likelihood estimate (Warm 1989)
^aReversed to ensure the interpretation in a positive direction