Outcomes From a School-Randomized Controlled Trial of Steps to Respect: A Bullying Prevention Program

This study reports the outcomes of a randomized controlled trial of Steps to Respect: A Bullying Prevention Program conducted in 33 California elementary schools. Schools were matched on school demographic characteristics and assigned randomly to intervention or waitlisted control conditions. Outcome measures were obtained from (a) all school staff; (b) a randomly selected subset of third-, fourth-, and fifth-grade teachers in each school; and (c) all students in classrooms of selected teachers. Multilevel analyses indicated significant (p This research was supported by a grant from the Raynier Foundation. Portions of this study were presented at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Society for Prevention Research, Denver, Colorado, June 4, 2010. The authors gratefully acknowledge the community prevention coordinators, principals, teachers, students, and parents of students in participating California elementary schools. The authors thank Sherry Burke and the staff of the Committee for Children; and Kate Fernandez, Koren Hanson, Amy Haslund, and the staff of the Survey Research Division at the Social Development Research Group, School of Social Work, University of Washington, for their hard work and support. The authors additionally thank Professor James Mazza, College of Education, University of Washington, and the anonymous reviewers for helpful edits and comments on the manuscript. Correspondence regarding this article should be addressed to Eric C. Brown, University of Washington, Social Development Research Group, 9725 3rd Avenue NE, Suite 401, Seattle, WA 98115; e-mail: [email protected] Copyright 2011 by the National Association of School Psychologists, ISSN 0279-6015 School Psychology Review, 2011, Volume 40, No. 3, pp. 423–443