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  • Education
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  • School connectedness is crucial for adolescent well-being.
  • Existing measures of school connectedness lack consistency and comprehensiveness.
  • There is a need for a psychometrically sound scale to capture the multifaceted nature of school connectedness.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the psychometric properties of a newly developed school connectedness scale.
  • To ensure the scale comprehensively measures key constructs of school connectedness.
  • To provide a reliable tool for researchers and program evaluators.

Main Methods:

  • Scale development involved collaboration with teachers.
  • Confirmatory factor analysis was used to test the scale's structure.
  • The scale was administered to an ethnically diverse sample of 717 high school students.

Main Results:

  • Confirmatory factor analyses supported a 5-factor structure: school involvement, academic motivation, school attachment, teacher support, and peer relations.
  • The 15-item scale demonstrated good fit indices (CFI=0.991, TLI=0.988, RMSEA=0.077).
  • Cronbach's alpha coefficients for the factors ranged from 0.73 to 0.93, indicating good internal consistency.

Conclusions:

  • The newly developed scale shows promise for comprehensively measuring school connectedness.
  • Further validation and reliability testing are recommended.
  • This scale can serve as a valuable tool for program evaluation in educational settings.