Development and Initial Validation of the Transformative Justice Scale (TJS): Assessing Teachers’ Capacity for Transformative Practices in Education

Principal Investigator(s):  View help for Principal Investigator(s) Matthew Diemer; University of Michigan

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Diemer, Matthew, and University of Michigan. Development and Initial Validation of the Transformative Justice Scale (TJS): Assessing Teachers’ Capacity for Transformative Practices in Education. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2025-10-03. https://doi.org/10.3886/E238610V1

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Summary:  View help for Summary This paper details the development of a scale assessing teachers’ perceived capacity to enact transformative justice pedagogy, the Transformative Justice Scale (TJS). This measure is grounded in transformative justice (TJ) scholarship, and is comprised of two subscales. The TJS factor structure was identified via exploratory and confirmatory factor analyses, with distinct samples of racially diverse middle and high school teachers. The TJS is time- and resource-efficient in that it utilizes teacher self-reports. The TJS contributes to the literature by providing an assessment of transformative or social justice-oriented pedagogy, which are not well-covered in extant measures. The TJS would also support teacher professional development and coaching, because it could be used as a pre-to-post evaluative tool, to foster continuously reflective practice, or to provide structured feedback. Future work should explore these potential applications, as well as further develop teachers’ capacity to enact transformative and equity-oriented approaches to practice.

This repository contains the data, input, and output files that correspond to the following publication: Diemer, M.A., Winn, M.T., Winn, L., de los Reyes, W., Kubi, G. S & Philip, T.M. (in press). Development of the Transformative Justice Scale (TJS). AERA Open.
Funding Sources:  View help for Funding Sources Spencer Foundation (202000238)



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