Promising Practices for School Organization of Mental Health Supports
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
Expert Notes AvailableView expert commentary on strengths and cautions for this instrument
Strengths
Student-focused, observation-based measure of NGSS practices.
Uses the ICAP framework to differentiate levels of scientific practice, supporting more fine-grained analysis than Likert-scale measures
Cautions
Requires observer training and shared interpretation of practice levels
Not yet tested for its ability to predict student outcomes such as achievement, inquiry skills, or motivation.
The IONIC (ICAP to Measure by Observation Next Generation Science Standards Science Practice Implementation in the Classroom) Observation is a lesson rating protocol to observe the eight scientific methods of the next generation science standards in K-12 science classrooms. This instrument contains 8 practices with 4 subpractices each, for a total of 32 subpractices being measured.
Organization
Topic
Collection Category(ies)
Content
Grades
Kindergarten,
1st Grade,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade,
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Languages
English
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
8 items
Access and Use
Price
Free
Contact
Ying-Chih Chen:
Email: Ying-Chih.Chen@asu.edu.
Takeshi Terada:
Email: takeshi.terada@ped.nm.gov
Open Access
No
Use in Research
Vosniadou, S., Lawson, M. J., Bodner, E., Stephenson, H., Jeffries, D., & I Gusti Ngurah Darmawan. (2023). Using an extended ICAP-based coding guide as a framework for the analysis of classroom observations. Teaching and Teacher Education, 128, 104133–104133. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tate.2023.104133 Polk, M. E., & Santos, D. L. (2025). Science Practices in Action: Group Engagement with Different Degrees of Inquiry in General Chemistry Laboratory. Journal of Chemical Education, 102(4), 1380-1388
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Item Type
Likert
