ABSTRACT

Students’ experience of learning, relating and belonging are crucial to their participation in school. With ever growing concern about young people’s mental health and levels of informal and formal exclusion it is timely to investigate how schools can be supported in meeting the social and psychological needs of learners. The focus of this paper is the development of a questionnaire to investigate the relationship between pupils’ experience of belonging and the barriers they encounter in the school setting. Our aim was to test out the tool prior to full standardisation. Data was collected from 722 students across four secondary schools. Four factors were identified within the scale with one factor, that which measured emotional security and comfort, demonstrating moderate correlations to all other scales indicating that it had an underlying relationships to different aspects of the school environment. Students who disclosed SEND had a greater likelihood of demonstrating low connectedness than would be expected by chance alone, with some differences in the degree to which particular items were predictive of overall levels of connectedness.

摘要

学生的学习、联系和归属感对他们在学校的参与至关重要。随着对年轻人心理健康以及非正式和正式排斥程度的日益关注，调查如何支持学校满足学习者的社会和心理需求是及时的。本文的重点是开发一份调查问卷，以调查学生的归属感与他们在学校环境中遇到的障碍之间的关系。我们的目标是在完全标准化之前测试该工具。数据来自四所中学的 722 名学生。在量表中确定了四个因素，其中一个因素是衡量情绪安全性和舒适度的因素，表现出与所有其他量表的中等相关性，表明它与学校环境的不同方面存在潜在关系。披露 SEND 的学生表现出低连通性的可能性比单独预期​​的要大，具体项目预测整体连通性水平的程度存在一些差异。