Evidence-Based Practices to Reduce Racial Inequity in School Discipline
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The Psychological Sense of School Membership includes 18-items that measure adolescent students' perceived belonging or psychological membership in the school environment.
Organization
Topic
Collection Category(ies)
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Belonging ; Student belonging ; School environment ; Adolescent students ; Perceived belonging ; School membership
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
18 items
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Contact
Carol Goodenow. Email: cgoodenow@doe.mass.edu. Phone number: 781-338-3603.
Setting
Schoolwide
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Goodenow, C. (1993). The psychological sense of school membership among adolescents: Scale development and educational correlates. Psychology in the Schools, 30(1), 79-90. https://doi.org/10.1002/1520-6807(199301)30:1<79::AID-PITS2310300113>3.0.CO;2-X
Whiting, E. F., Everson, K. C., & Feinauer, E. (2018). The simple school belonging scale: Working toward a unidimensional measure of student belonging. Measurement and Evaluation in Counseling and Development, 51(3), 163-178. https://doi.org/10.1080/07481756.2017.1358057
