Track: Graduate Student Paper Competition

Abstract

School Disaster Resilience can be defined as “the ability of schools to resist, absorb and respond to the shock of disasters while maintaining and providing essential education services, and then to recover to its original state or adapt to a new one.” This study aims to develop a scorecard and resilience index which can be used by educational institutions particularly schools in the Philippines to comprehensively measure disaster resilience of schools. A scorecard evaluation framework for assessing school resilience was initially proposed through systematic literature review and Modified-Delphi consultation. The data for the study were collected from 50 secondary and tertiary schools in Quezon City, Philippines, using a specially designed questionnaire drafted from the existing resilience scorecard for making cities resilient by the United Nations International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. Factor analysis was conducted to determine the underpinning structure of the scorecard. It identified a three-factor structure of school resilience, namely: Governance and Financial Capacity, Planning and Disaster Preparation, and Disaster Response and Post-event Recovery. This three factor structure will give a disaster resilience index as measure of an educational institutions overall disaster response capability. These factors showed great internal consistency and validity. This validated scorecard provides a new way to operationalize the concept of School resilience and it also lays the foundation for the further development of the measurement instrument in future studies on disaster preparedness and resilience of educational institutions.

Keywords: Disaster resilience index, factor analysis, modified Delphi, School disaster resilience, scorecard