Students' sense of safety in the context of learning achievements

Abstract

Issues of student safety at school have often been linked to the specificities of social worker performance in schools. Research on student safety is mostly focused on physical safety, looking at individual issues of violence, aggression, bullying. Research on similar topics has addressed social risk factors and their links to child development. Research can identify examples of student safety in the contexts of racial discrimination, adolescents' gender identity, and the COVID-19. Issues of student safety in relation to how students feel have received more attention in research in psychology. In educational science, the most frequent focus is on the organisation of the educational process to achieve preventive goals. As a separate group of studies related to the topic at hand, one could identify studies related to the assessment of individual issues of school culture. Research publications based on data analysis of international research tend to focus on general models of learning, barriers to student achievement, analysis of socio-economic contextual factors, and experiences of bullying, etc. There is a lack of in-depth research analysing students' feelings of safety, especially when attempting to assess from an educational perspective the issues of students' feelings of safety at school in relation to their academic performance and other factors in the educational environment. An initial review of research findings reported in scientific publication databases shows that there has been no focused research on pupils' feelings of security and learning achievement over the last five years. Therefore, the scientific problem for this research project is how a student's sense of security relates to his/her academic achievement at school and other factors in the educational environment. The aim is to assess the relationship between a student's sense of security and learning achievement and other factors in the educational environment. The research will be carried out by analysing scientific sources related to students' feelings of security and by using inferential statistical methods to analyse the results of the OECD PISA study.