Articles

Over the years, our staff members have published numerous articles and presented numerous conference papers. View or download from the selection below.

The Role of Supportive School Environments in Promoting Academic Success
by Eric Schaps
Published as Chapter 3 in Getting Results, Developing Safe and Healthy Kids Update 5: Student Health, Supportive Schools, and Academic Success. Developed by the Safe and Healthy Kids Program Office, California Department of Education, 2005. View html page or download getresults5_ch3Schaps.pdf.
Complete document available at Safe and Healthy Kids and California Department of Education sites.

Lessons Learned About Academics After School
by Eric Schaps
Published in Perspective, Journal of the Association of YMCA Professionals, October 2005.
View HTML page or download lessons2005.pdf.

Community in School as Key to Student Growth: Findings from the Child Development Project
by Eric Schaps, Victor Battistich, and Daniel Solomon
Published in Building academic success on social and emotional learning: What does the research say? edited by J. Zins, R. Weissberg, M. Wang, & H. Walberg, 189–205. New York: Teachers College Press, 2004. Download TCPress_SchapsChptr.pdf.

Effects of an Elementary School Intervention on Students’ “Connectedness” to School and Social Adjustment During Middle School
by Victor Battistich, Eric Schaps, and Nance Wilson
Published in The Journal of Primary Prevention, Vol. 24, No. 3, Spring 2004.
Download effectsJPP2004.pdf.

Community In School: Central to Character Formation, Violence Prevention and More
by Eric Schaps
Published in TEPSA Journal, Texas Elementary Principals and Supervisors Association, Summer 2003.
View html page or download TEPSA03Schaps.pdf.

The Heart of a Caring School
by Eric Schaps
Published in Educational Leadership,Vol. 60, No. 6, p. 31–33, March 2003. View html page.

The Role of the School’s Social Environment in Preventing Student Drug Use
by Eric Schaps and Daniel Solomon
Published in The Journal of Primary Prevention, Vol. 23, No. 3, Spring 2003.
Download schools_roleJPP2003.pdf.

Building Community in School: The Child Development Project
by Catherine Lewis, Eric Schaps, and Marilyn Watson
Published in EQ + IQ : How to build smart, nonviolent, emotionally intelligent schools, edited by M. Elias, H. Arnold, and C. Steiger Hussey, 100–108. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2003.
View html page or download building_comm2003.pdf.

Community in School: Central to Character Formation and More
by Eric Schaps and Victor Battistich
Presented at the White House Conference on Character and Community, June 2002.
View html page or download whitehouse02.pdf.

What’s Right and Wrong In Character Education Today
by Eric Schaps, Esther F. Schaeffer, and Sanford N. McDonnell
Published in Education Week, September 12, 2001.

Effects of an Elementary School Intervention on Students’ “Connectedness” to School and Social Adjustment During Middle School
by Victor Battistich
Presented at the symposium, Resilience education: Theoretical, interactive and empirical applications, J. Brown (Chair), at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, Seattle, April 2001. Download AERA01.pdf.

Building Community: The Neglected Element in School Renewal
by Eric Schaps
Published in NAESP’s Principal magazine, September 2000. View html page or
download building_community.pdf.

The Use of Implementation Data in Assessing the Effectiveness of the Child Development Project
by Victor Battistich
Presented at the meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Montreal, Canada, June 2000.
Download SPR00.pdf.

Community In School: A Key to Violence Prevention, Character Formation, and More
by Eric Schaps
Published in CEP’s Character Educator, Vol. 8, No. 2, Spring 2000. View html page.

Perils on an Essential Journey: Building School Community
by Eric Schaps and Catherine Lewis
Published in Phi Delta Kappan, November 1999, Vol. 81, i3, p. 215. View html page or
download perils_essentials_102098.pdf.

Toward a More Adequate Assessment of Moral Development
by Victor Battistich
Presented at the meeting of the Association for Moral Education, Minneapolis, November 1999.
Download AME99.pdf.

Assessing Implementation of the Child Development Project
by Victor Battistich
Presented at the meeting on Implementation Research in School-Based Models of Prevention and Promotion, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, October 1999. Download CDPIMP99.pdf.

The Effects of Classroom and School Practices on Students’ Character Development
by Victor Battistich
Presented at the Character Education Assessment Forum, California State University, Fresno, CA,
May 1998. Download CHARED98.pdf.

Sense of Community as a Mediating Factor in Promoting Children’s Social
and Ethical Development
by Victor Battistich, Daniel Solomon, and Marilyn Watson
Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Diego,
April 1998. Download AERA98.pdf.

Building on What We Have Learned: Some Reflections on Current Issues and Future
Directions in (School-Based) Prevention
by Victor Battistich
Invited presentation as part of the Plenary Session on Prevention Research at the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention’s National High Risk Youth Learning Community Workshop, Arlington, VA, March 1996. Download CSAP96.pdf.

Assessing Students’ and Teachers’ Sense of the School as a Caring Community
by William Roberts, Allen Hom, and Victor Battistich, Developmental Studies Center.
Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, San Francisco, April 1995. Download AERA95.pdf.

Students and Teachers in Caring Classroom and School Communities
by Victor Battistich, Daniel Solomon, Marilyn Watson, and Eric Schaps
Presented at the annual meeting of the American Educational Research Association, New Orleans, April 1994. Download AERA94.pdf.

A Longitudinal Investigation of the Effects of a School Intervention Program on
Children’s Social Development
by Daniel Solomon, Victor Battistich, and Marilyn Watson
Presented at the Biennial Meeting of the Society for Research in Child Development, March 1993. Download SRCD93.pdf.