The Wellbeing Classroom as a Whole School Approach
The research was an invited evaluation of the whole school implementation over 5 years of an approach to student social and emotional wellbeing called 'The Wellbeing Classroom'. The data set consists of:
- qualitative data which comprises transcripts of interviews with students, teachers, school leadership (principal and wellbeing coordinator), an outreach worker from the Schools Ministry Group and a coordinator from the Salvation Army.
- quantitative data collected by the school which comprises of demographic information about students: attendance, culture/languages spoken at home, disadvantage (e.g. school card holders), disabilities, learning (e.g. NAPLAN scores and behavioural (e.g. bullying). There are also frequency data regarding individuals' hours of commitment to the implementation of the approach schoolwide.
Data and resources
Other resources collected by the researchers may be available subject to researcher approval. Please contact Prof Elspeth McInnes.
Period covered by the dataset
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11 Feb 2020
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| End date: |
30 Dec 2020
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| Comments: |
All qualitative data was collected in 2020. School collected and provided quantitative data included data from 2016-2020.
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Access rights
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Data citation
McInnes, E, Whitington, V, Neill, B 2025, The Wellbeing Classroom as a Whole School Approach, University of South Australia, viewed 26 March 2025, retrieved from <https://researchoutputs.unisa.edu.au/11541.1/ab8a3798-12bd-4a87-bbb6-ed4b407c0852>.