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Latinx Students' Sense Of Belonging In A Comprehensive Suburban High School, Samantha Ketover
Latinx Students' Sense Of Belonging In A Comprehensive Suburban High School, Samantha Ketover
Ed.D. Dissertations in Practice
Sense of belonging (SOB) is of critical importance to students as it impacts multiple aspects of a student’s life (Penergast et al, 2018). The need to belong is a fundamental human need (Maslow, 1954). A student’s SOB can be measured by the foundational Psychological Sense of School Membership (PSSM) scale (Goodenow, 1993). SOB is of particular importance for students of color (SOC). When SOB is negatively impacted in SOC this can cause declines in motivation and achievement (Penergast et al, 2018). The first three goals of this dissertation were quantitative. First, there was a calculation of the levels of the …