Student Reports of Bullying and Cyber-Bullying: Results From the 2015 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCES 2017-015) and
Split-Half Administration of the 2015 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCES 2017-004)
Student Reports of Bullying and Cyber-Bullying: Results From the 2015 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey uses data from the School Crime Supplement (SCS) to the National Crime Victimization Survey (NCVS) to describe rates of students reported being bullied at school. During the 2014-15 school year, 20.8 percent of students ages 12 to 18 reported that they were bullied.
The associated documentation Split-Half Administration of the 2015 School Crime Supplement to the National Crime Victimization Survey describes the development, methodology, and results of an embedded, randomized split-half experiment to compare two versions of an updated series of questions on bullying and their alignment with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and U.S. Department of Education's uniform definition of bullying released in 2014. This definition defines bullying as incidents of unwanted peer aggression that cause harm or distress, are repeated (or that the victim fears will be repeated), and in which a power imbalance exists between the perpetrator and the victim.
