Systematic review reveals an overreliance on outdated intrapersonal scales over systemic measures in education, highlighting the need for multidimensional tools.
Key Points
To evaluate existing survey measures of racism in educational research and identify methodological gaps in assessing systemic and structural racism.
Conducted a systematic review grounded in Bronfenbrenner's ecological systems theory and QuantCrit frameworks.
Analyzed 66 studies and 50 unique scales used to evaluate racism and racialized environments in educational settings.
Most existing scales predominantly measured racial discrimination at the intrapersonal level, while systemic and structural dimensions were consistently omitted.
The majority of surveyed tools were self-report questionnaires designed for older students and developed more than 15 years prior, demonstrating a lack of contemporary, multidimensional metrics.