Assessing Wellbeing in Schools

Why Is Wellbeing Important in Schools?

What is Wellbeing?

Considerations: How Does Wellbeing Function in Life

A Measure Suited for Your School

Ethical Considerations

Necessary Permission

Application of Data

Measures of Child Wellbeing

Gratitude Measures

Warwick-Edinburgh Mental Well-being scale (WEMWBS)

Positive and Negative Affect Schedule for Children (PANAS-C)

EPOCH Measure of Adolescent Well-being

Six Seconds Youth Version (SEI-YV)

Measures of Child Wellbeing at School

Children’s Hope Scale

Multidimensional Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS)

Students' Life Satisfaction Scale (SLSS)

The Stirling Children's Well-being Scale (SCWBS)

Me and My Feelings (M&MF)

Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (SSWQ)

The Psychological Sense of School Membership (PSSM) (Adapted)

Social Emotional Health Survey-Primary (SEHS-P)

The School Attitude Questionnaire

The PedsQL Measurement Model

Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary (SEHS-S)

The Student Resilience Survey (SRS)

Holistic Student Assessment (HSA)

Flourishing at School Survey (FAS)

Measures of Adult Wellbeing

Subjective Happiness Scale (SHS)

The Satisfaction with Life Scale (SWL)

Contentment with Life Assessment Scale (CLAS)

Flourishing Scale (FS)

The Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHQ)

Comprehensive and Brief Inventory of Thriving (CIT & BIT)

Mental Health Continuum Short and Long Form (MHC-SF)

Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS)

The PERMA Profiler

Measures of Adult Wellbeing at Work

Teacher Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire (TSWQ)

Job-related Affective Well-being Scale (JAWS)

The Workplace PERMA-Profiler

Job Satisfaction Survey (JSS)

The Gallup Q12 Employee Engagement Questionnaire

The PERMAH Workplace Survey

Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ)

Maslach Burnout Inventory: Educator's Survey (MBI-ES)

Measures of Cultural Wellbeing

School Culture Triage Survey

My Class Inventory-Short Form (MCI-SF)

School-Level Environment Questionnaires (SLEQ)

The Omnibus T-Scale

My Class Inventory-Short Form for Teachers (TMCI-SF)

Individualised Classroom Environment Questionnaire (ICEQ)

ED School Climate Surveys (EDSCLES)

Student Engagement Instrument (SEI)

Classroom Environment Scale

Other Resources

Me and My School Questionnaire (M&MS)

This measure is for children

This is a free measure

Me and My School Questionnaire is designed to assess emotional and behavioral difficulties in students Ages 8 and older. Its 16 items were specifically designed “so that younger children could easily read and comprehend [them]” (Moffa et al., 2019, p.3). Statements such as “I feel lonely” are rated on a Likert scale (EEF). The questionnaire has been tested in schools across the United States and the UK.

Pros for Schools	Cons for Schools
Provides an overview of emotional and behavioral aspects of wellbeing	No available translations Not yet widely tested

Suggestions for Further Research

EEF. Me and My School Questionnaire: Measures Database. Education Endowment Foundation, https://edtechbooks.org/-gzK.

Moffa, K, Wagle, R., Dowdy, E., Palikara, O., Castro, S., Dougherty. D., & Furlong, M. J. (2019). The Me and My School Questionnaire: Examining the cross-cultural validity of a children’s self-report mental health measure, International Journal of School & Educational Psychology, https://edtechbooks.org/-PGj

Praveetha, P., Deighton, J., Fonagy, P., Vostanis, P., & Wolpert, M. (2014). Clinical validity of the Me and My School questionnaire: A self-report mental health measure for children and adolescents. Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health. https://edtechbooks.org/-IJBp

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