Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
This scale is meant to be used as a self-reporting tool to assess the impacts of positive youth development programs. These programs are meant to provide opportunities for youth to increase their skills, abilities, and interests in positive activities. This scale was created for both domestic and international use. This scale was based on the PYDI (Arnold et al.) but adjusted with items removed and a construct to measure happiness added. Subscore(s): Development
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
Kindergarten,
1st Grade,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade,
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Self Awareness ; Responsible Decision Making ; Relationship Skills ; Social Awareness ; Development
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
32 items
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Contact
Michael Sieng, Arizona State University michael.sieng@asu.edu
Open Access
Yes
Setting
Undefined
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Sieng, M., Cloutier, S., & Irimata, K. (2018). Positive Youth Development Sustainability Scale (PYDSS): The development of an assessment tool. Journal of Social Change, 10(1), 81-97. https://doi.org/10.5590/JOSC.2018.10.1.07
