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In 2012, the Office for Strategy and Performance together with the commenced work to identify potential measures of young people’s wellbeing.
ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï selected the for piloting on the basis that it had been extensively trialled and validated in the Canadian school system. The MDI measures a combination of strengths and poor wellbeing and placed students’ wellbeing in a wider context by asking them about their support and activities in the home, at school, and with their peers.
ºÚÁÏ³Ô¹Ï added survey items measuring perseverance, and then in 2015, students also responded to questions about their level of engagement (a concept relating to experience in being immersed and absorbed in positive challenges). Since this work first commenced, interest in measuring children’s wellbeing has grown and the department has recognised the need to undertake system-wide measures of students' engagement and satisfaction with their schools.
The main aim of the current project is to trial a set of student engagement items and make recommendations about which combinations of items should be included in a new module on student engagement in the department’s annual Wellbeing and Engagement Collection (WEC).
