Increasing Teacher Preparedness Through Effective Student Teaching
Category: Teacher and Leader Development
The Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire is an 8-item self-report rating scale measuring teachers' job-specific wellbeing. It comprises two subscales: (1) School Connectedness and (2) Teaching Efficacy. Subscale scores can be used as standalone wellbeing indicators or summed to create an Overall Teacher Subjective Wellbeing composite score.
Administration Information
Length
8 items
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Contact
Utah State University
Associate Professor - Director of the School Psychology Program
Email: tyler.renshaw@usu.edu
Open Access
Yes
Use in Research
de Biagi, N. B., Celeri, E. H., & Renshaw, T. L. (2018). Technical Adequacy of the Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire With Brazilian Educators. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 36(8), 850-855. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734282917714904
Mankin, A., von der Embse, N., Renshaw, T. L., & Ryan, S. (2018). Assessing teacher wellness: Confirmatory factor analysis and measurement invariance of the Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire. Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 36(3), 219-232. https://doi.org/10.1177/0734282917707142
Psychometrics
Scoring
Manual scoring
Psychometric References
Renshaw, T. L., Long, A. C., & Cook, C. R. (2015). Assessing teachers’ positive psychological functioning at work: Development and validation of the Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire. School Psychology Quarterly, 30(2), 289-306. http://dx.doi.org/10.1037/spq0000112
Ronfeldt, M., & Truwit, M. (2023). Considerations for use of teaching quality measures. EdInstruments Brief, Annenberg Institute for School Reform, Brown University. www.edinstruments.com/teaching.
