Measuring of social cohesion: an interdisciplinary approach

Abstract

The aim of the article is to introduce simple and widely applicable instrument for quantitative pedagogical research. The instrument enables brief insight into diagnostics of school classes cohesion.

A theoretical background, conceptualization, operacionalizaction and systematic discusson of reliability and validity are discussed.

Keywords

• social cohesion
• school class
• confirmatory factor analysis
• pedagogical research
• measuring