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Preliminary Development and Validation of the School Connectedness Questionnaire

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  • Robbie J. Marsh

    (Mercer University)

  • Justus J. Randolph

    (Mercer University)

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School connectedness is the extent to which a student feels that adults and peers on their school campus care about their overall wellbeing. Students who exhibit high levels of school connectedness are at a reduced risk to engage in health-risk behavior, however students with and without disabilities may experience difficulty with developing high levels of school connectedness. Because of the importance of understanding levels of school connectedness, a scale was developed to measure levels of school connectedness for students in special education and general education in elementary, middle, and high school environments. The scale was developed by administering an initial set of 24 items from a researcher-created 40-item pool to 68 students with emotional and behavior disorders in special education and 132 students in general education. A principal components analysis was then conducted on those data; 10 items were chosen for a final set. The School Connectedness Questionnaire has been shown to exhibit high internal structure validity and moderate internal consistency reliability for both populations.

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  • Robbie J. Marsh & Justus J. Randolph, 2020. "Preliminary Development and Validation of the School Connectedness Questionnaire," Child Indicators Research, Springer;The International Society of Child Indicators (ISCI), vol. 13(5), pages 1637-1654, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:chinre:v:13:y:2020:i:5:d:10.1007_s12187-020-09726-8
    DOI: 10.1007/s12187-020-09726-8
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