Duarte, George

Abstract: School reformers are often searching for a program that will have a positive and far-reaching effect on a school campus. Researchers and writers have described the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program (IB DP) as a largely positive influence on a school campus, providing a rigorous and standards-based curriculum to IB DP students. However, there has been little written on whether or not the IB DP has an impact on a school culture and climate beyond the impact on the IB DP students. This qualitative study described the impact of the International Baccalaureate Diploma Program on the culture and climate of two high schools where the program was implemented.

As there was a paucity of research that specifically addressed the impact of the IB DP on school culture and climate, some of the literature in this study focused on the history and background of the IB program, research that specifically described the IB DP, research on school culture and school climate, and literature that described systems thinking.

The two schools were both located in Orange County, California. They were assigned pseudonyms, Washington High School (WHS) and Lincoln High School (LHS). Each of the school sites was examined and meaningful artifacts were collected. At each site, the researcher conducted three interviews and one focus group. After completing the interviews and focus groups and compiling field notes from the site and artifacts, the researcher reduced the data into codes and subsequently themes that were related to school culture and climate. Some of the codes had been decided upon a priori, but the themes were not established until after all the data had been collected and analyzed. With the use of narrative, the researcher described the impact of school culture and climate, as described by participants, within the six identified themes of school pride, IB diploma requirements, instructional techniques, school within a school, earned and entitled IB student privileges, and school mission and IB mission.

In several of the aforementioned six themes, there was a mixed impact of implementing an IB DP on school culture and climate. Some of the evidence indicated that there was a marginal or slightly negative impact on school culture and climate. However, in examining all of the themes, the research suggests that schools that implement an IB DP experience a positive impact on school culture and climate.

Key words: Education, International Baccalaureate diploma, School culture

总 结：

1、研究人员描述了国际学士学位文凭项目(IB DP)很大程度上在学校校园有积极的影响,提供了一个严格的和基于标准的DP课程，然而,几乎没有研究证明IB DP是否有影响在学校以外的文化，本文通过定性研究描述国际学士学位文凭项目在两个高中计划实施后对其文化的影响。

2、本研究中对IB课程的历史和背景,具体描述IB DP,学校文化和文化描述做了系统的思考。

3、本文比较的两所学校都位于加利福尼亚州奥兰治县,分别是华盛顿高中和林肯高中，对其都进行了三项访谈和一次焦点小组讨论，并将主题编译成代码存入数据库，以实现IB DP主题影响学校文化的研究。

来源：California State University, Fullerton. Nov 2013, ISBN: 9781267864680, 169p.