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Improving wellbeing through student participation at school :
Title from title screen (viewed on 22/08/2018). Includes bibliographical references. This document reports the findings from Phase 4 of an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded study (LP140100540) entitled, Improving wellbeing through student participation at school. The research involved a partnership between the Centre for Children and Young People at Southern Cross University and the NSW Department of Education (DoE), the Catholic Schools Office, Lismore (CSO), Office of the NSW Advocate for Children & Young People, and the University of Central Lancashire.The study utilised a mixed method approach to advance scholarship and evidence in the fields of education, children's rights and child wellbeing. The research aimed to strengthen knowledge, policy and practice concerning student participation at school by identifying whether and how such participation improves students' social and emotional wellbeing. Phase 4 of the research involved the collection and analysis of quantitative survey data across 16 schools in New South Wales, Australia between July 2016 and December 2016. In Phase 4, six elements of participation were found, in support with Phase 3 results but using a much larger and different sample of participants. These results across different phases of the study support the use of the Student Participa-tion Scale across different samples. The Student Participation Scale was shown to be both reliable and valid. Convergent validity was supported by the results that found scores on the new participation scale were strongly and positively associated with greater student engagement, particularly with affective engagement (liking school) and cognitive engagement with school. The new scale also effectively detected differences between students who were known to have greater voice and influence at school (Student Representative Council (SRC) members) and non-SRC members. [Introduction, ed] This document reports the findings from Phase 4 of an Australian Research Council (ARC) funded study (LP140100540) entitled, Improving wellbeing through student participation at school. The research involved a partnership between the Centre for Children and Young People at Southern Cross University and the NSW Department of Education (DoE), the Catholic Schools Office, Lismore (CSO), Office of the NSW Advocate for Children & Young People, and the University of Central Lancashire.The study utilised a mixed method approach to advance scholarship and evidence in the fields of education, children's rights and child wellbeing. The research aimed to strengthen knowledge, policy and practice concerning student participation at school by identifying whether and how such participation improves students' social and emotional wellbeing. Phase 4 of the research involved the collection and analysis of quantitative survey data across 16 schools in New South Wales, Australia between July 2016 and December 2016. In Phase 4, six elements of participation were found, in support with Phase 3 results but using a much larger and different sample of participants. These results across different phases of the study support the use of the Student Participa-tion Scale across different samples. The Student Participation Scale was shown to be both reliable and valid. Convergent validity was supported by the results that found scores on the new participation scale were strongly and positively associated with greater student engagement, particularly with affective engagement (liking school) and cognitive engagement with school. The new scale also effectively detected differences between students who were known to have greater voice and influence at school (Student Representative Council (SRC) members) and non-SRC members. [Introduction, ed]