Still learning The impact of classroom climate on students attending secondary special education

High quality special education for students with emotional and behavioral problems is very important for their socio-emotional and academic development and successful participation in society. In order offer high quality appropriate education, it is important to know how the classroom climate could meet the needs of students with emotional and behavioral problems in special education. Because students in schools for special education have different characteristics and show different behaviors than students in regular education, the instruments used to measure classroom climate in regular education are probably not suitable for special education. In this dissertation two developed instruments for measuring classroom climate in schools for special education and residential special education in The Netherlands are described.