Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
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.
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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
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
Aquire permission from the developer, Carol Goodenow, before use.
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
