As part of our Evidence-Based Practice Virtual Discussion Series, this 60-minute session highlights the Psychological Sense of School Membership Scale, which is a measure included in the S-STEM REC’s Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Repository for Sense of Belonging. Cultivating Sense of Belonging has been found to be a key indicator of whether a student persists in STEM. Our invited speaker, Dr. Sharon Zumbrunn will discuss the psychometric properties of the scale based on her and her co-authors’ work in 2014 as well as changes to the scale since then. Dr. Zumbrunn will also present the practicalities of applying the measure and how research on the measure has resulted in changes to students and their institutions. S-STEM PIs, Co-PIs, program staff, evaluators, and social science researchers are encouraged to attend and share their experiences and questions related to measuring Sense of Belonging in their S-STEM programs.
Understanding Sense of Belonging Using the Psychological Sense of School Membership Scale
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Sharon Zumbrunn
Professor, Foundations of Education, Virginia Commonwealth University
As a former elementary school teacher, Dr. Sharon Zumbrunn’s broad research interests include understanding student learning and motivation, and the contexts that foster student success. Current projects include longitudinal, experimental and mixed method investigations that examine student belonging, motivation, and self-regulation across developmental levels (elementary through college). She also works with educators to understand the ways in which their beliefs, emotions and instructional practices influence student motivation, engagement and achievement.
Zumbrunn teaches courses in motivation, educational psychology, social processes in education, mixed methods, and teaching, learning and success in higher education.
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