Original scientific paper
ASSESSMENT AND SELF-ASSESSMENT OF BEHAVIOURAL PROBLEMS OF PRIMARY SCHOOL PUPILS: OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES
Dejana Bouillet
; Faculty of Teachers Education, University of Zagreb
Abstract
The objectives of the research presented in this paper are: (1) to determine the proportion of primary school students with behavioural problems in six primary schools from fiveCroatian counties; (2) to analyse the association of teachers’assessment and pupils’ self-assessment of behavioural problems and (3) to establish estimated resources of schools that meet their specific educational needs. The researchis based on data collected in the frame of the "Evidence based early educational interventions" project that is being implemented from August 2013 to February 2015 by Forum for Freedom of Education in cooperation with six Croatian primary schools in five Croatian counties. It was conducted on a sample of 174 teachers and other teachers' council members in six primary schools and 921 pupils from those schools. The applied measuring instruments (the Questionnaire for teachers, the Questionnaire for pupils and Questionnaire for the assessment of school’s focus on the prevention of pupils’ behaviour problems) were processed on a descriptive level, while checking their factor structure and determining the correlation between factors. The hypothesis which assumed that there is a correspondence of teachers’ assessment and pupils’ self-assessment of theirbehavioural problems whose incidence is associated with potential schools to meet special educational needs of these pupils is confirmed only partially. It turned out that there is apartial correspondence in the assessment of the pupil's behaviour, but estimates that the school’s focus on the prevention of behaviour problems is not significantly associated with the proportion of pupils which manifest behavioural problemsin certain schools. The obtained results point out the necessity of better conceptualisation of educational efforts in primary schools that would be focusedon the selected group of pupils with assessed behavioural problems at an early stage of their development.
Keywords
primary school pupils; primary schools; behavioural problems of pupils in school; programs of selective prevention of pupils’ behavioural problems
Hrčak ID:
132684
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Publication date:
6.1.2015.
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