Validation of the  W ider  O utcomes  S urvey for  T eachers ( WOST ): a measure for assessing the behaviour, relationships and exposure to bullying of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities ( SEND ) | Zendy

Wigelsworth Michael | Zendy; Oldfield Jeremy | Zendy; Humphrey Neil | Zendy

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Validation of the W ider O utcomes S urvey for T eachers ( WOST ): a measure for assessing the behaviour, relationships and exposure to bullying of children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities ( SEND )

Author(s) -

Wigelsworth Michael,

Oldfield Jeremy,

Humphrey Neil

Publication year - 2015

Publication title -

journal of research in special educational needs

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.543

H-Index - 27

ISSN - 1471-3802

DOI - 10.1111/1471-3802.12030

Subject(s) - psychology , confirmatory factor analysis , construct validity , internal consistency , special education , special educational needs , construct (python library) , measurement invariance , applied psychology , developmental psychology , psychometrics , clinical psychology , medical education , social psychology , mathematics education , structural equation modeling , statistics , medicine , mathematics , computer science , programming language

The W ider O utcomes S urvey for T eachers ( WOST ) is a teacher informant‐report questionnaire developed to aid the assessment of behaviour difficulties, quality of relationships and exposure to bullying among students identified with special educational needs and disabilities ( SEND ). This study examines the psychometric properties of the WOST in a validation sample representing 6164 students with SEND (mean age 12 years) drawn from 481 primary and secondary schools across E ngland. Results showed favourable internal consistency using C ronbach's alpha and acceptable model fit using confirmatory factor analysis, both of which were invariant to broad categorisations of SEND . Practical utility and construct validity were also established by testing two theoretically derived hypotheses. The measure is therefore tentatively supported as a useful tool for assessing the wider outcomes of students with SEND .

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