Measures that assess students' understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity, identity, and social justice.
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Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy (SEE)
Topics: Student Well-BeingSelf-report instrument that measures empathy toward people of racial and ethnic backgrounds different from one‘s own. SEE is composed of three instrumental aspects: intellectual empathy, empathic emotions, and the communication of these perspectives to others via word or action. These resolve into…Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS)
Topics: Student Well-BeingSelf-reported survey designed to assess denial of the existence of racism and racial dynamics. Higher scores on each of the CoBRAS factors and the total score are suggested to be related to greater: (a) global belief in a just world; (b) sociopolitical dimensions of a belief in a just world, …Nondominant Cultural Capital Scales
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Nondominant Cultural Capital Scales operationalize Yosso's (2005) community cultural wealth (CCW) framework. CCW refers to the assets that students of color bring to schooling. The four scales include aspirational capital (the ability to maintain hopes and dreams for the future), familial…School Social Behavior Scales, 2nd Edition (SSBS-2)
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe School Social Behavior Scales (SSBS) are sold by Brookes Publishing and measure social competence and antisocial behavior (with 32 items measuring each). They are filled out by teachers and evaluated by psychologists, and are meant to be accompanied by the Home & Community Social Behavior…Social Networks and Friendship Survey
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Social Networks and Friendship Survey asks participants to indicate their friends in the classroom. From this list, children are asked to identify the top 3 friends by marking them with a star. The survey also asks children to indicate "rejects" or children with whom they don‘t like to hang out…School Motivation and Learning Strategies Inventory - Teen Form (SMALSI)
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe School Motivation and Learning Strategies Inventory (SMALSI) Teen Form assesses learning strategies and can be used by educators to identify strengths and weaknesses and administer appropriate interventions. Subscore(s): Study strategies, Note taking/Listening skills, Reading…School Motivation and Learning Strategies Inventory-Child Form (SMALSI)
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe School Motivation and Learning Strategies Inventory (SMALSI) Child Form measure assesses learning strategies and can be used by educators to identify strengths and weaknesses and administer appropriate interventions Subscore(s): There are nine subscores: (1) Study strategies, (2) Note taking…School Motivation Questionnaire (SMQ)
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: MotivationThe School Motivation Questionnaire (SMQ) measures motivation orientations in children. Subscore(s): There are eight subscores: Mastery orientation, Intrinsic motivation, Cooperative orientation, Individual orientation, Ego orientation, Competition orientation, Orientation to approach…School Achievement Motivation Rating Scale (SAMRS)
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: MotivationThe SAMRS was developed as a tool that could be used by teachers to assess behavioral characteristics that are associated with academic achievement motivation. Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced from the instrument publisher's or author’s…The Social Connectedness Scale-Revised
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Social Connectedness Scale includes 8 items and measures students' sense of connectedness, affiliation, and companionship to provide a broad picture of belongingness. The authors have an accompanying Social Assurance scale (which measures students' sense of companionship and affiliation) often…Sense of Social and Academic Fit
Topics: Student Well-BeingStudies show that people of color (Steele & Aronson, 1995), first-generation college students (Stephens, Hamedani, & Destin, 2014), and women (Inzlicht & Ben-Zeev, 2000) may struggle in school (or, in the case of women, in science, technology, engineering, and math classes) because they…The Hemingway Measure of Adolescent Connectedness
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Learning environmentsThe full 78-item Hemingway includes 15 ecological subscales measuring three domains of adolescent connectedness - connectedness to self, connectedness to others, and connectedness to society. Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced from the…Youth Outcome Toolkit
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Toolkit contains a menu of youth survey questions encompassing nine broad outcome areas: Academic Success; Arts and Culture, Community Involvement, Core Values, Cultural Responsiveness, Healthy Lifestyles, Life Skills, Positive Life Choices, and Sense of Self as well as questions related to…Virtual Environment for Social Information Processing Assessment Tool for Upper Elementary and Middle School Children
Topics: Student Well-BeingVESIP™ is an easy to use, web-based direct assessment of children’s social information processing skills that utilizes an interactive and immersive simulation format. It is designed for children in grades 3–7 (approx. 8–12 years old). Through computer animation, a child assumes the role of a…Youth Experiences Survey 3.0
The Youth Experience Survey (YES) was developed to survey high-school aged adolescents about their developmental experiences in an extracurricular activity or community-based program. The YES includes 18 scales that assess self-reported experiences in the activity or program within six conceptual…Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe IDI examines how one engages cultural difference through reflection of past and current situations and experiences. An individual’s IDI profile report provides a perceived orientation score (how one sees themselves when interacting) and a developmental orientation score (how one actually…Competence for Civic Action
Topics: Student LearningThe goal of this project was to produce a set of civic measures with good psychometric properties that are appropriate for use with young people ages 12-18. These measures tap aspects of adolescents civic behaviors, opinions, knowledge, and dispositions. These measures are easy to administer and…Global Empathy Scale
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Global Empathy Scale (GES) is a measure of high school aged student's self-reported awareness of political and social rights of others, emotional connectedness to others, as well as one's likelihood to speak up for others. The 11-items within this measure are responded to on a Likert scale. …Social Perspective Taking
Topics: Student Well-BeingSocial Perspective Taking (SPT) is measured through three sub-scales which are the SPT Propensity scale, the SPT Confidence scale, and the SPT Importance scale (24 items total). In the initial study, a performance task to assess social perspective taking ability and an interview to uncover…Assessing Bias in Standards and Curricular Materials Toolkit
Topics: Student LearningThe Assessing Bias in Standards & Curricular Materials Tool enables users to determine the extent to which developed standards and curricular materials reflect educational equity (Fraser, 1998; GLEC, 2011). The tool provides guidance in reviewing standards and curricular materials using equity…Ethnic Identity Scale-Brief (EIS-B)
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Ethnic Identity Scale assesses three distinct components of ethnic-racial identity: (a) exploration, or the degree to which individuals have explored their ethnicity; (b) resolution, or the degree to which they have resolved what their ethnic identity means to them; and (c) affirmation, or the…Student Measure of Culturally Responsive Teaching (SMCRT)
Topics: Student LearningThe Student Measure of Culturally Responsive Teaching (SMCRT) explores students‘ perspectives about culturally responsive teaching practices in their school. Subscore(s): Diverse Teaching Practice, Cultural Engagement, Diverse Language Affirmation Note: The overview provided for this instrument…Student‐Teacher Relationship Scale
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: BelongingPianta’s scales (Pianta, 1997; Pianta & Nimetz, 1991; Pianta, Steinberg, & Rollins, 1995), yield measures of the child's relationship with his/her teacher, regarding whether the relationship is conflicted, warm, troubled, open, or dependent. Note: The overview provided for this instrument…The Culturally Affirming Climate Survey (CACS)
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe purpose of the CACS is to extract the racialized experiences of youth of color in school to highlight opportunities to mitigate issues of racial bias and discrimination. In previous work the CACS has been used to identify strategies to improve student well-being, belonging, and engagement. Six…Multigroup Ethnic Identity Measure-Revised
Topics: Student Well-BeingStudent-reported ethnic identity, defined as that part of the student's self-concept derived from his or her knowledge of their membership in a social group, together with the value and significance attached to that membership. Subscore(s): Positive ethnic attitudes and sense of belonging;…The Hemingway Measure of Late Adolescent Connectedness
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Higher educationThe full 78-item Hemingway includes 15 ecological subscales measuring three domains of adolescent connectedness - connectedness to self, connectedness to others, and connectedness to society. Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced from the…The Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA)
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe DECA is a newly developed standardized, norm‐referenced measure of resilience, completed by parents and teachers in a collaborative and supportive partnership. Subscales include initiative, attachment, self‐control, and behavioral concerns. Note: The overview provided for this instrument…