Instrument Development for Socio-Educational Support and Socio-Educational Participation towards Educational Well-Being

Jalal Deen  Careemdeen; Mohd Mahzan  Awang; Abdul Razaq  Ahmad; Shakila  Dahalan

doi:10.36941/jesr-2021-0104

Authors

Jalal Deen Careemdeen Faculty of Education, The National University of Malaysia, UKM, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia. Faculty of Education, The Open University of Sri Lanka, Nawala, Nugegoda 11222, Sri Lanka
Mohd Mahzan Awang Faculty of Education, The National University of Malaysia, UKM, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
Abdul Razaq Ahmad 1Faculty of Education, The National University of Malaysia, UKM, 43600 Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia
Shakila Dahalan Ministry of Education, Block E8, Parcel E, Federal Government Administrative Centre, 62604, 62000 Putrajaya, Malaysia

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36941/jesr-2021-0104

Keywords:

Socio-Educational Support, Socio-Educational Participation, Educational Wellbeing, Confirmatory Factor Analysis, Reliability Analysis

Abstract

The current study aims to develop and validate a questionnaire instrument to measure the socio-environmental support, socio-educational participation and educational well-being indicators using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) and Reliability Analysis among secondary school children in Sri Lanka. The indicators used in the analyses were based on sociological theories, and several past empirical studies identified to have three main constructs. The socio-environmental support construct which is based on Bronfenbrenner’s (1989) ecological theory. The socio-educational participation construct which is developed in line with the Social Capital Theory (Putnam, 1993) and students' educational well-being construct, which was developed based on the Psychosocial Well-being Framework of Sri Lanka (2009). The pilot study was carried out, consisting of 50 secondary school children in Sri Lanka. The study results revealed that the value of Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin (KMO) test results for all constructs was above the cut-off level of 0.5. The Exploratory Factor Analysis of this study demonstrated that 35 items of socio-environmental support construct, 21 indicators of socio-educational participation construct, and 28 items of educational well-being construct were valid for measuring all those constructs. Reliability Analysis shows that each construct and indicators have good internal consistency values.

Received: 20 May 2021 / Accepted: 23 July 2021 / Published: 5 September 2021