Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The Assessment of Social Perspective- Taking Performance (ASPP) uses scenarios to assess students' social perspective-taking competency Subscore(s): Articulation of beliefs, Positioning of actors in social contextsThe APEEC consists of 16 items covering three broad domains of classroom practices: physical environment, curriculum and instruction, and social context. All items are rated on a seven‐point, Likert‐type scale. “A score of ‘1’ indicates the classroom is inadequate in terms of developmentally appropriate practices, a score of ‘3’ indicates minimal developmentally appropriate practices, a score of ‘5’ indicates the classroom is good in terms of developmental appropriateness, and a score of ‘7’ indicates excellent developmentally appropriate practices. Intermediate scores of ‘2’, ‘4’, and ‘6’ can also be obtained” (Hemmeter et al., 2001, p. 4). Descriptors are provided at points 1, 3, 5 and 7. After each item is scored, items are summed and then divided by the total number of items administered to generate a total score. Ratings are made using information collected both through classroom observation and teacher interview, with more weight placed on classroom observation.
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Keywords
interpersonal competencies
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
9 items
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Developer
Assessment of Social Perspective-Taking Performance (ASPP)
Setting
Classroom
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Kim, H. Y., LaRusso, M. D., Hsin, L. B., Harbaugh, A. G., Selman, R. L., & Snow, C. E. (2018). Social perspective-taking performance: Construct, measurement, and relations with academic performance and engagement. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 57, 24-41.
