The development and validation of the Decent Education Scale and the Retrospective Decent Education Scale.

ABSTRACT: Decent education is a new construct grounded within the psychology of working theory (Duffy et al., 2022), referring to high-school education that ensures adequate physical safety, psychological safety, an equitable environment, social belongingness, quality instruction, and postgraduation programming. In this multistudy research, we report the development and validation of the French and English versions of the Decent Education Scale (DES) and Retrospective DES (RDES), assessing students' perceptions of their current and past educational experiences. Study 1 gathered data from 445 French-speaking Swiss high-school students to refine items and provide evidence for the psychometric properties of the French DES. Study 2 gathered data from 284 U.S. high-school students to validate the English

SUBMITTER: Levin N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12321206 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature