Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being and Mental Health
The SDI is a set of measures to assess a student's self determination. It includes questions about choice making, goal setting, and decision making. The Inventory includes a self-report measure for people aged 13-22 with or without disabilities, as well as a parent or teacher report for an outside perspective. These two assessments can be combined for a full view of a student's self-determination. The assessment uses a continuous scale between "Agree" and "Disagree" on their online platform. For a non-visual option, those using a screen reader can use higher numbers to show higher agreement. There are 17 questions in the measure.
Content
Grades
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Languages
English
Spanish
Other Language/s
American Sign Language
Respondent
Student
Teacher
Parent
Administration Information
Length
17 items
Administration
Computer
Timed
No
Access and Use
Contact
Kansas University Center of Developmental Disabilities
selfdetermination@ku.edu
785-864-7600
Open Access
Yes
Use in Research
Shogren, K. A., Shaw, L. A., Raley, S. K., & Wehmeyer, M. L. (2018). Exploring the effect of disability, race-ethnicity, and socioeconomic status on scores on the Self-Determination Inventory: Student report. Exceptional Children, 85(1), 10-27. https://doi.org/10.1177/0014402918782150
Shogren, K. A., Shaw, L. A., Raley, S. K., & Wehmeyer, M. L. (2018). The impact of personal characteristics on scores on the Self‐Determination Inventory: Student Report in adolescents with and without disabilities. Psychology in the Schools, 55(9), 1013-1026. https://doi.org/10.1002/pits.22174
Shogren, K. A., Anderson, M. H., Raley, S. K., & Hagiwara, M. (2020). Exploring the relationship between student and teacher/proxy-respondent scores on the Self-Determination Inventory. Exceptionality, 29(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/09362835.2020.1729764
Psychometrics
Scoring
Computer scoring
Psychometric References
Mumbardó-Adam, C., Guàrdia-Olmos, J., Giné, C., Shogren, K. A., & Vicente Sánchez, E. (2018). Psychometric properties of the Spanish version of the Self-Determination Inventory Student Self-Report: A structural equation modeling approach. American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 123(6), 545-557. https://doi.org/10.1352/1944-7558-123.6.545
Shogren, K. A., Wehmeyer, M. L., Little, T. D., Forber-Pratt, A. J., Palmer, S. B., & Seo, H. (2017). Preliminary validity and reliability of scores on the Self-Determination Inventory: Student Report version. Career Development and Transition for Exceptional Individuals, 40(2), 92-103. https://doi.org/10.1177/2165143415594335
Shogren, K. A., Little, T. D., Grandfield, E., Raley, S., Wehmeyer, M. L., Lang, K. M., & Shaw, L. A. (2020). The Self-Determination Inventory–Student Report: Confirming the factor structure of a new measure. Assessment for Effective Intervention, 45(2), 110-120. https://doi.org/10.1177/1534508418788168
Shogren, K. A., Shaw, L. A., & Mumbardó-Adam, C. (2019). The Assessment of Self-Determination in Spanish and American Adolescents: The Self-Determination Inventory: Student Report. Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 57(4), 274-288. https://doi.org/10.1352/1934-9556-57.4.274
National Comparison
No
Item Type
Likert
