Pike, Cathy King2010-11-302010-11-302002-01Pike, Cathy King. "Measuring racial climate in schools of social work: Instrument development and validation." Research on Social Work Practice 12, no. 1 (January 2002): 29-46.Pike, Cathy King. "Measuring racial climate in schools of social work: Instrument development and validation." November 30, 2010. Available from IUPUI ScholarWorks. http://hdl.handle.net/1805/2317.1049-7315https://hdl.handle.net/1805/2317This post-peer-review, pre-copyedit version of the article submitted to IUPUI ScholarWorks as part of the OASIS Project. Article reproduced with permission of the copyright owner. Further reproduction prohibited without permission. Permission granted through posted policies on copyright owner’s website or through direct contact with copyright owner.Objective: This article reports the initial validation of an instrument designed to measure racial climate in programs and schools of social work. Method: An unduplicated sample of students from one school of social work (N = 182) responded to a survey of racial climate. Psychometric analyses were computed to determine the reliability and validity of the instrument’s scales. Results: The scales attained high levels of internal consistency reliability, had a stable factor structure for the items as they were hypothesized, and performed well in preliminary analyses of convergent construct and known-groups validity. Conclusions: The results provided initial evidence of internal consistency reliability and content, construct, factorial, and known-groups validity.en-USAfrican American studentsEuro-American studentsethnic groupsmeasurementracial climatesocial workDiscrimination in education -- United StatesMeasuring instruments -- ValuationSocial work education -- United StatesArticle