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Assessing school happiness: development and validation of a measurement scale for parents/guardians

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dc.contributor.authorGramaxo, Patrícia Leonor
dc.contributor.authorDias, Álvaro
dc.contributor.authorAbelha, Marta
dc.contributor.authorDutschke, Georg
dc.contributor.authorSeabra, Filipa
dc.date.accessioned2025-06-17T07:24:47Z
dc.date.available2025-06-17T07:24:47Z
dc.date.issued2025en_US
dc.date.updated2025-06-13T13:09:25Z
dc.description.abstractIntroduction: Parents are one of the stakeholders in evaluating schools, and families’ perspectives about schools are increasingly acknowledged as essential to educational decision-making. However, little is known about how parents’ perspectives on school happiness can be assessed. This article proposes a model for evaluating school happiness as perceived by parents/guardians. Methods: Data were obtained through questionnaires administered to 641 parents. The model was tested using structural equation modeling techniques. Results: The results identified four main components: relationships and teachers’ characteristics (People), teaching practice (Process), learning/leisure balance (Process), and green school (Place). Discussion: The article discusses the development and validation of an instrument that can be used with parents/caretakers as one of the means of assessing a school’s overall happiness level and identifying key aspects to improve a school’s level of happiness. Implications for future research on the evaluation of happy schools are also discussed.eng
dc.description.sponsorshipThe author(s) declare that financial support was received for the research and/or publication of this article. Financed by national funds through the FCT, Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal), through the project UID/04372/2023. The funder was not involved in the study design, collection, analysis, interpretation of data, the writing of this article, or the decision to submit it for publication.
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dc.identifier.doi10.3389/feduc.2025.1549751en_US
dc.identifier.issn2504-284Xen_US
dc.identifier.slugcv-prod-4506837
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10400.2/19946
dc.language.isoeng
dc.peerreviewedyes
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
dc.subjectHappiness
dc.subjectScale
dc.subjectParents
dc.subjectGuardians
dc.subjectHappy schools
dc.titleAssessing school happiness: development and validation of a measurement scale for parents/guardianseng
dc.typejournal article
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oaire.citation.issue1549751en_US
oaire.citation.startPage1
oaire.citation.titleFrontiers in Educationen_US
oaire.citation.volume10en_US
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person.givenNamePatrícia Leonor
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person.givenNameGeorg
person.givenNameFilipa
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