THE EFFECTS OF A SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM ON SELF-CONCEPT

  • 1 July 1990
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 63  (4) , 275-283
Abstract
School improvement programs are often assessed in terms of their effect on school climate and education outcomes. The School Development Program (SDP) of the Yale Child Study Center [Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA] has been shown to have a positive influence on those two factors. We also recognize the importance of positively influencing students'' affective, intra-personal, and motivational states, such as their self-evaluations. The present study examined the effects of the SDP on multiple dimensions of students'' self-concepts. The Piers Harris Self-Concept Scale was administered to 174 fourth and sixth graders, half of whom attended SDP schools and half control schools. Significant positive changes in self-concept were observed among the SDP students but not among the control students. Program students also showed significantly higher self-concepts on post-test measures when compared to normative samples.

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