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Measuring Children's Experience of Their Right to Participate in School and Community: A Rights‐Based Approach
Author(s) -
Emerson Lesley,
Lloyd Katrina
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1111/chso.12190
Subject(s) - cronbach's alpha , reliability (semiconductor) , measure (data warehouse) , psychology , developmental psychology , child rights , social psychology , psychometrics , political science , human rights , law , computer science , power (physics) , physics , quantum mechanics , database
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.