The Simple School Belonging Scale: Working Toward a Unidimensional Measure of Student Belonging

The Simple School Belonging Scale: Working Toward a Unidimensional Measure of Student Belonging

Research focused on student belonging has sometimes used available measures in a unidimensional way despite evidence of multidimensionality in these scales. This study introduces a new unidimensional measure of school belonging that is psychometrically robust with preliminary evidence of construct v...

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Veröffentlicht in:Measurement and evaluation in counseling and development 2018-01, Vol.51 (3), p.163-178
Hauptverfasser: Whiting, Erin Feinauer, Everson, Kimberlee C., Feinauer, Erika
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Confirmatory factor analysis
Construct Validity
exploratory factor analysis
Factor Analysis
Factor Structure
Grade 7
Grade 8
Grade 9
Individual Development
Item Response Theory
Likert Scales
Online Surveys
Program Validation
Psychometrics
psychosocial development
Robustness (Statistics)
Sense of Community
Statistical Analysis
Student Surveys
Test Construction
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Zusammenfassung:Research focused on student belonging has sometimes used available measures in a unidimensional way despite evidence of multidimensionality in these scales. This study introduces a new unidimensional measure of school belonging that is psychometrically robust with preliminary evidence of construct validity that we call the Simple School Belonging Scale (SSBS).
ISSN:0748-1756
1947-6302
DOI:10.1080/07481756.2017.1358057