PO143: Measuring Resilience in Schools: Current Assessments and Future Steps

  • PMD: 4,6
  • Cost: Included in Registration
  • Skill Level: Intermediate
  • Poster Session 4: Recent Developments in Assessment and Research

Learner Objectives

This session will help participants…

  1. recognize current measures used to assess resilience in school-age populations;
  2. understand commonalities and differences of measures used to assess resilience in school-age populations;
  3. conceptualize areas of improvement in assessing and administering resilience measures in school-age populations; and
  4. discuss the development and initial administration of a new resilience measure for school-age populations.

Description

Resiliency is a critical factor in student success. This poster will outline the current literature for school-based resiliency measures and a newly developed measure.

Presenter(s)

Joseph D. Latimer, University of South Florida
Nathaniel von der Embse, PhD, University of South Florida
Bailey M. Braunstein, MS, University of South Florida
Megan E. Welliver, University of South Florida

Contributor(s)

Caleb N. Edney

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