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Chapter 25 - Measuring Child Well-Being in Schools

How Robust Outcome Data May Inform the Selection, Design, and Implementation of Evidence-Based Programmes

from Part V - Improving the Implementation of Evidence-Based Programmes And Interventions via Staff Skills, Organisational Approaches, and Policy Development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 November 2012

Barbara Kelly
Affiliation:
University of Strathclyde
Daniel F. Perkins
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
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This chapter introduces concepts and methodologies for understanding and measuring children's well-being and illustrates how these data may be used to inform the design and implementation of services and programmes for children in school. In order to provide accurate and reliable data to aid the implementation of interventions and programmes, the author argues that schools should rely, where possible, on 'standardised measures'. To illustrate the potential application and value of the routine use of standardised measures of well-being in schools, the chapter describes one particular tool designed to assess the mental health and social relationships of school children: strengths and difficulties questionnaire (SDQ). The described principles and illustrations can be applied equally to other robust standardised measures assessing varying dimensions of children's well-being. The SDQ has been demonstrated to effectively discriminate, with reasonable accuracy, between children with and without a likely mental health disorder.
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Print publication year: 2012

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