Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
The complete version of APERS must be completed by certified raters external to schools. The assessment includes a review of student records, interviews with school staff and parents, observations, and the completion of an electronic scoring tool. A shorter APERS self-assessment companion tool can be completed by teachers and used in combination with the full APERS evaluation by a certified rater.
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Corresponding Author: Darrick Jolliffe
Professor, Head of School of Law & Criminology, University of Greenwich
BSc, MPhil, PhD
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S√°nchez-P√©rez, N., Fuentes, L. J., Jolliffe, D., & Gonz√°lez-Salinas, C. (2014). Assessing children‘s empathy through a Spanish adaptation of the Basic Empathy Scale: parent‘s and child‘s report forms. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1438. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01438