A Mokken Scale to Assess Secondary Pupils' Experience of Violence in Terms of Severity

Autor/in	Mooij, Ton
Titel	A Mokken Scale to Assess Secondary Pupils' Experience of Violence in Terms of Severity
Quelle	In: Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment, 30 (2012) 5, S.496-508 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0734-2829
DOI	10.1177/0734282912439387
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Secondary School Students; Student Experience; Violence; Item Response Theory; Scaling; Student Surveys; School Safety; Netherlands + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Sekundarschüler; Studienerfahrung; Gewalt; Item-Response-Theorie; Scale construction; Skalenkonstruktion; Schülerbefragung; Niederlande
Abstract	Violence assessment can potentially be improved by Item Response Theory, that is, ordinal Mokken Scale Analysis. The research question is as follows: Does Mokken Scale Analysis of secondary pupils' experience of violence result in a homogeneous, reliable, and valid unidimensional scale that fits all the requirements of Mokken scaling? The method used is secondary analysis of Dutch national data collected from secondary school pupils in 2008 by means of a digital school safety survey. The first random sample (n1 = 14,388) was used to develop the scale; the second sample (n2 = 14,350) is meant to cross-validate the first results. Pupils' experience of violence is assessed by 29 items reflecting six types of antisocial or aggressive behavior. A Mokken scale of 25 items meets the requirements of monotone homogeneity and double monotonicity. Ordering is invariant between boys and girls; being born in the Netherlands or not; and feeling at home in the Netherlands or not. These results are cross-validated in Sample 2. The latent construct concerns pupils' experience of violence in terms of severity, varying from verbal and mild physical violence (relatively most frequent), to combinations of social, material, and severe physical violence, to very severe and serious sexual violence (relatively least frequent). Some limitations and further developments are discussed. (Contains 7 tables.) (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10