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- Title
Measuring Children's Experience of Their Right to Participate in School and Community: A Rights-Based Approach.
- Authors
Emerson, Lesley; Lloyd, Katrina
- Abstract
This paper discusses the development of a children's rights‐based measure of participation and the findings from its use in a survey of 10‐ to 11‐year‐old children (n = 3773). The measure, which was developed in collaboration with a group of children, had a high reliability (Cronbach's alpha = 0.89). Findings suggest that children's positive experience of their participation rights is higher in school than in community, and higher for girls compared to boys. It is argued that involving children in the ‘measurement’ of their own lives has the potential to generate more authentic data on children's lived experiences.
- Subjects
CHILDREN'S rights; CHILDHOOD attitudes; RIGHT to education; TEST validity; EXPERIENCE; CHILD research; STATISTICAL reliability; PSYCHOMETRICS; CHILDREN
- Publication
Children & Society, 2017, Vol 31, Issue 2, p120
- ISSN
0951-0605
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/chso.12190