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NEW COLLECTION | AUGUST 2026

Collection: Self-Directed Learning

EdInstruments collections are specialist-curated shortlists with guidance to help researchers and school improvement teams measure well, and measure in similar ways across settings. Created with the Postsecondary Teaching with Technology Collaborative, the Self-Directed Learning Collection includes questionnaires to measure students’ motivation, metacognitive skills, and applied learning behaviors through self-report.

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Toolkit Update | December 2025

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Toolkit: Assessing ELA and Math Curriculum Shifts

The EdInstruments toolkit from RPPL helps school and district leaders collect data in critical areas of school improvement. Our Assessing Curriculum Shifts toolkit, including tools for ELA, Math, and subject-agnostic use, is now available.

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Student Opinion Scale

Expert Notes

Strengths:
Designed specifically to assess test-taking effort and perceived importance, helping researchers interpret performance on low-stakes assessments. Validated with diverse U.S. 10th graders, including ELL students, with evidence that scores function similarly across language groups.

Cautions:
Recent research supports the Effort subscale more strongly than Importance. Scores should not be interpreted as direct measures of students’ academic motivation or ability.

Topics: Student Learning

Tags: Motivation, Student engagement

The Student Opinion Scale (SOS) is a brief self-report survey designed to measure students’ motivation and effort when completing a test or other assessment. It focuses on whether students are engaged in the assessment process and whether they put forth sufficient effort to make their test…

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Short Inventory of Learning Patterns

Expert Notes

Strengths:
Validated with Belgian higher-education students; strong evidence for measuring and comparing students’ learning strategies and patterns over time. Used to examine relationships between learning patterns, motivation, teaching, and academic achievement.

Cautions:
Limited validation with K–12 students and U.S. students; most evidence comes from higher education and Belgian or European contexts.

Topics: Student Learning

Tags: College readiness

The Short Inventory of Learning Patterns (SILP) is a self-report questionnaire that measures students’ approaches to learning and studying. It assesses different learning patterns, including how students process information, regulate their learning, and work with others.The SILP can be used in…

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Self-regulatory Failures Behaviors Scale

Expert Notes

Strengths:
Validated with U.S. college students to measure everyday self-regulation failures. Used to examine whether self-regulation relates to willpower beliefs and college GPA.

Cautions:
Limited validation beyond U.S. college students; includes behaviors beyond academic self-regulation, such as eating, spending, and emotion control.

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Motivation, Student engagement

The Self-Regulatory Failures Behaviors Scale is a self-report measure that assesses behaviors associated with difficulty regulating thoughts, feelings, or actions in everyday life. It focuses on self-regulation failures, such as difficulty maintaining intended behaviors or following through on…

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Self-Regulation Questionnaire - Learning

Expert Notes

Strengths:
Validated with college students in medical and organic chemistry contexts; useful for examining how instructional environments relate to students' autonomous versus controlled motivation for learning. Adapted for online learning with college students (α = .87); a Peruvian university study also supported a 2-factor structure (autonomous and controlled regulation).

Cautions:
Limited validation with K-12 students.

Topics: Student Learning

Tags: College readiness

The Self-Regulation Questionnaire–Learning (SRQ-Learning) is a self-report survey that measures students’ reasons for engaging in learning activities. It is based on self-determination theory and distinguishes more autonomous forms of motivation from more controlled forms of motivation. The measure…

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Student Opinion Scale

Short Inventory of Learning Patterns

Self-regulatory Failures Behaviors Scale

Self-Regulation Questionnaire - Learning