This study therefore investigated gender differences in academic resilience among secondary school students in kiambu county, kenya. A rating scale is provided to rate the participants capability in relation to that resilience component if you wish to use. Although motivation is critical to academic success, academic gains that students make can be lost if they are not resilient to setback, study pressure, and stress in the school setting. Student from urban locality possessed high level of academic resilience. The 30 item academic resilience scale ars30 explores processas opposed to outcomeaspects of resilience, providing a measure of academic resilience based on students speci. The purpose of this study was to investigate the validity and reliability of the academic resilience scale ars30 in iran. Jul 28, 2016 it is well documented that academic achievement of students from families of low socioeconomic status ses tends to be below their more socially advantaged peers. However, one of the main criticisms of this body of research is in the set of. Academic vulnerability is a concern for foster care adolescents, and more empirical studies need to be conducted to increase understanding of the variables that affect academic success for. Academic resilience scale ars the academic resilience scale developed by martin and marsh 2006 was assessed through six items. Measuring individual psychological resilience in education.
The paper deals in detail with the development and standardization of academic resilience scale for kashmiri migrant adolescents. Gender differences in academic resilience and academic. This study was examined the relationship between family communication patterns and academic resilience. To develop a valid and reliable academic resilience scale for use in the didactic portion of the doctor of pharmacy curriculum to identify those pharmacy students who have greater capacity to overcome academic adversity. The ego resilience scale please read the below statements about yourself and indicate how well it applies to you by circling the answer to the right from 1 does not apply at all to 4 applies very strongly. To the right of each you will find seven numbers, ranging from 1 strongly disagree on the left to 7 strongly agree on the right. The 30 item academic resilience scale ars30 explores. The academic resilience approach provides free, practical resources to help everyone in the school community step up and support pupils academic resilience our resources. The 30item questionnaire utilize a 5point likert scale ranging from 1 very likely to 5 very unlikely. Turkish version of the scale was found to have onedimension. In this document you will find an introduction to academic resilience, what it is, and how it can work for you. The findings add to extant knowledge of resilience and provide support for universities to develop strategies that promote resilience in university students to reduce the risk of students developing mental health problems, thus enabling students to flourish under academic pressures. Academic resilience scale ars30 24 was used to measure participants academic resilience. The academic resilience scale ars30 measuring individual psychological resilience in education.
For analyzing data, parametric statistical techniques were used. It aims to equip schools with the tools to support students to overcome adversity and improve their mental health, and, in turn, educational outcomes. Resilience, psychological distress, sleep disturbances. Nov 27, 2015 in order to represent the key constituents of resilience i. To the right of each you will find seven numbers, ranging from. Therefore, this article attempts to ensure that the academic resilience scale ars is suitable for assessing academic resilience of egyptian university students. Brackettb, larserik malmbergc, james hallc a faculty of education and social work, university of sydney, australia b department of psychology, yale university, united states c department of education, university of oxford, united kingdom. Academic resilience is much more related to learners achieving good educational outcomes despite adversity. Resilience reflects the ability to bounce back, to beat the odds and is considered an asset in human characteristic terms. Developing the academic resilience of our students. After the family, educators are best positioned to provide the supportive conditions that promote resiliency in youth.
Sixhundredsix high school students 309 girls and 297 boys were participants of the study. Finally, a set of 55 items were retained for the final scale. The 30 item academic resilience scale ars30 explores processas opposed to outcomeaspects of resilience, providing a measure of academic resilience. A sample population of 50 is usually high for a primarily qualitative study, and yielded a rich and robust array of.
Psychometric evaluation of the academic resilience scale ars30. A personal letter was sent to students who had accepted a place on the programme. Pubmed journal article the academic resilience scale ars30. Both benefit from a wholeschool approach and therefore represent a link between individual resilience and efforts connected to the wider community of teachers, parents, and school leaders. Workshops and electronic resources were used to strengthen the academic resilience of the students at key points during the academic year, see figure 4. Here you will find summary information about the development and purpose of the measure, together with useful links associated with the measure and contact details for the developers should you wish. Correlates of academic resilience among secondary school. The measurement is a scale which requires scoring in the form of the 7 point likert scale ranging from not true of me at all to extremely true of me.
Resilience and strengthening resilience in individuals. Help any school establish systems to build resilience approaches that support disadvantaged pupils over time through a whole school approach. The resilience scale rs 2 march 3911 please read the following statements. Academic resilience as mediator of multidimensional. This study explored how external and internal protective factors in predicting academic resilience among secondary school students in kiambu county, kenya. The relationship between resilience and academic success. Statement of the problem despite the numerous studies on determinants of academic resilience, variations in resilience across gender remain underexplored. It is therefore important that students are motivated and resilient to academic pressures.
In order to represent the key constituents of resilience i. For the sake of this research, the term resilience is a broad umbrella concept, capturing both the outcome and process of exceptional academic achievement despite the presence of potentially virulent risk factors. The ars30 was developed by dr simon cassid y, research psychologist, in response to the limited options available for measuring resilience in academic or educational contexts. Let me know how true the following characteristics are as they apply to you. Here you will find summary information about the development and purpose of the measure, together with useful links associated with the measure and contact details for the developers should you wish to know more about the ars30 or would like to request permission to use it. This study concerned the relationships among the dispositional resilience, the dimensions of psychological wellbeing, and the coping strategies in a sample of 183 italian university students aged 2026 years and recruited from three degree courses at university of catania east sicily, italy. The study includes a total of 202 undergraduates selected from universities in hong kong through convenience sampling.
So the present study examined the relationship between achievement goal orientations and academic resilience. This paper utilises the student motivation wheel martin, 2003a, 2003b as a basis for conceptualising academic resilience and the student motivation scale sms martin, 2001, 2002 as a. A new multidimensional construct measure were found in prime pubmed. The origins of resilience theory can be traced back to psychological studies from the first half of the twentieth century hill 1958. Academic buoyancy is developed as a construct reflecting everyday academic resilience within a positive psychology context and is defined as students ability to successfully deal with academic setbacks and challenges that are typical of the ordinary course of school life e.
Investigation of the relationship between resilience. The convergent and discriminant validity of the academic resilience scale were determined. Finally, the academic resilience scale ars30 is a recently developed measure used to assess. The purpose of the present study was prediction of academic resilience based on coping styles and personality traits. How to measure resilience with these 8 resilience scales. The 14item resilience scale rs14 please read the following statements. This finding suggests that mindfulness and academic selfefficacy have a significant impact on resilience. However, for the past three decades, the field has broadened and studies of resilience have been carried out by social workers, sociologists, educators and policy makers van breda 2001. Moreover, available studies describe protective factors in isolation, without examining how these factors combine to create academic resilience in an individual luther 2006. Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Selected cassidys academic resilience scale ars30 aacp. Although there is a large body of research focusing on general or life resilience, there has been little research into the issue of academic resilience. Then number of items was reduced to 68 after extensive scrutiny by the subject experts.
Academic buoyancy has been defined as a capacity to overcome setbacks, challenges, and difficulties that are part of everyday academic life. Circle the number which best indicates your feelings about that statement. Simon cassidy 2016 describes academic resilience as the tendency to persevere and succeed in education despite meeting with adversity. In the past 2 decades, research findings established achievement goal theory as a powerful framework for conceptualizing difference in the quality of students engagement, persistence on task, and academic resilience. Method the tenets and suggestions proposed below are based upon original research conducted on fifty ethnic minority academically resilient students. Validity and reliability of the academic resilience scale in egyptian. Family communication patterns and academic resilience.
Academic resilience contextualizes the resilience construct and. Study revealed that boys possessed more scores in academic resilience as compared with girls. Study population comprised all students of kashan university. Resilience and selfcompassion related with achievement. The 30 item academic resilience scale ars30 explores processas opposed to outcomeaspects of resilience, providing a measure of academic resilience based on students specific adaptive cognitiveaffective and.
Brief resilience scale brs please respond to each item by marking. This study examines educational and psychological correlates of academic resilience using within. Success test, and the connor davidson resilience scale. This rating should be based on the participants score along with the behavioural evidence you collect in the interview. Academic resilience contextualizes the resilience construct and reflects an increased likelihood of educational success despite adversity. Apr 24, 2017 the academic resilience approach provides free, practical resources to help everyone in the school community step up and support pupils academic resilience. Pdf validity and reliability of the academic resilience. There exist a number of scales that measure generalised resilience but the argument that resilience is better measured within specific contexts is convincing. Resilience and strengthening resilience in individuals january 2011 uk. Reflect and analyze if you could go back and do it again, come up with 10 things do you wish you did 10 things you wish you didntdo. The paper provides an account of the development of a new multidimensional construct measure of academic resilience. Factors and conditions promoting academic resilience. At the initial stage, the scale consisted of 93 items.
This paper explores a model of motivation and introduces the concept of academic resilience. A new multidimensional construct measure article pdf available in frontiers in psychology 71781 november 2016 with 5,153 reads how we measure reads. A second letter followed when the students registered and included an invitation to induction. The final version of the academic resilience scale consists of 40 positive and 15 negative items. Academic resilience among senior secondary school students. This paper utilises the student motivation wheel martin, 2003a, 2003b as a basis for conceptualising academic resilience and the student motivation scale sms martin, 2001. Though academic resilience as a field of study has recently become more prominent in the social science literature. To develop a valid and reliable academic pharmacy resilience scale adapted for use in the didactic.
This study is the first to examine the extent to which a academic buoyancy and academic resilience are distinct but correlated factors, and b academic buoyancy is more relevant to lowlevel negative outcomes anxiety, uncertain control, failure avoidance, whereas academic resilience is more relevant to major negative outcomes self. Academic resilience here are some tools and resources which we find useful in working on resilience in schools. Then number of items was reduced to 68 after extensive scrutiny. Academic resilience approach university of brighton.
The academic resilience approach ara is a wholeschool based community development model designed by angie hart and lisa williams with input from school practitioners and young people. The results imply that interventions which focus on enhancing internal protective factors while strengthening external factors are more likely to have a better impact in promoting. Students who participated in the study filled out an anonymous. Several studies have identified factors and conditions that facilitate academic success for disadvantaged students i. The academic resilience scale university of salford. This article focuses on the interrelationships between resilience, selfcompassion, achievement emotions, test anxiety, intolerance of uncertainty, and academic performance induced by examinations. Academic resilience is defined as the ability to effectively deal with setback, stress or pressure in the academic setting. The results found that in the regression models, mindfulness and academic selfefficacy were significant predictors of resilience. Academic resilience has been defined as a capacity to overcome acute andor chronic adversity that is seen as a major threat to a students educational development.
Resilience scale ars30 explores processas opposed to outcomeaspects of resilience, providing a measure of. Youth development module scale rydm and family communication patterns scale fcp were used as measures of the study. Pdf on mar 1, 2014, mustafa ali khalaf and others published validity and reliability of the academic resilience scale in egyptian context find, read and cite all the research you need on. Resilience is a psychological construct observed in some individuals that accounts for success despite adversity. Academic resilience for children and young people with learning disabilities these slides are developed to be used with children and young people with learning difficulties to help build their resilience. Good educational outcomes despite adversity we can spot the impact of academic resilience through individuals doing better than we might have expected promoting academic resilience will lead to better behaviour and results for disadvantaged pupils. Since this paper is concerned with academic resilience in five asian. A crosssectional survey was conducted among firstyear, secondyear, and thirdyear pharmacy students to assess psychometric properties of a 30.