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Student Success Network (SSN) Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe SSN student survey measures 7 SEL competencies that are connected to persistance and success in students. The categories include academic self-efficacy, belonging, growth mindset, interpersonal skills, problem-solving, self-advocacy, and self-regulation. The survey is intended for students…Student‐Teacher Relationship Scale
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions: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.Survey of Attendance Practices
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThis survey of school leaders is intended to collect information on the practices that schools are using to improve attendance; the organizational systems in place to support those attendance practices; personnel related to improving attendance; school leader involvement in attendance initiatives;…Tauck Family Foundation Formative Assessment Tool
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingChild Trends’ and the Foundation’s primary goal was to create tools that the Foundation’s investees could use to assess and monitor the extent to which the organizations are improving low-income students’ social and emotional skills associated with success in school and life. A secondary goal was…Teacher Child Rating Scale (T-CRS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Teacher report, validated on a nationally representative sample for use with preschool through 3rd grade. Easy-to-use checklist.
Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Teacher–Child Rating Scale (T-CRS) is a brief, teacher-completed checklist that assesses children’s social-emotional and behavioral adjustment in school. It focuses on skills that support learning and positive classroom participation, such as attention, behavior regulation, and peer social…Teacher Engagement Report Form – New (TERF‑N)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingFrom the same study that created the SESQ (Student Engagement in Schools Questionnaire) the TERF-N is a teacher-report form measuring teacher perceptions of student engagement (affective, behavioral, cognitive) for each student. The TERF-N is a revision of the Teacher Engagement Report Form…Teacher Observation of Child Adaptation- Revised (TOCA-R)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTeachers were asked to complete one for each student in their class as a way to identify high-risk children. Teachers were asked to describe, among other things, whether the child completed assignments, was friendly, broke rules, was disobedient, fought, or yelled at others. Teachers used a Likert…Teacher Observation of Classroom Adaptation-Checklist (TOCA-C)
Expert NotesStrengths:Easy to use, teacher measure, validated for use with children from preschool through elementary school (K-5th).
Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Teacher Observation of Classroom Adaptation–Checklist (TOCA-C) is a teacher-completed checklist used to assess students’ classroom behavior and social functioning. It is a streamlined version of the original Teacher Observation of Classroom Adaptation (TOCA) instrument developed by Kellam et al…Teacher Questionnaire: Integrating Engineering Practices into Secondary Science Instruction (García‐Carmona & Bogdan Toma, 2024)
Expert NotesStrengths:Captures teachers’ preparation, emotions, expectations, and opinions in a single instrument
Provides system-level insight useful for policy, professional development, and reform monitoring
Cautions:Best suited for descriptive overviews rather than detailed instructional diagnosis
Self-report format does not capture enacted classroom practice
Context-specific to Spain, requiring adaptation for use in other national settings
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Science educationThe Teacher Questionnaire: Integrating Engineering Practices into Secondary Science Instruction is an instrument composed of 25 Likert-style items and divided into two sections. The first focuses on demographics and independent variables. The second covers experiences, emotions, appraisals, and…Teaching NGSS Science with Multilingual Learners Questionnaire (Grapin et al., 2024)
Expert NotesStrengths:Useful in linguistically diverse contexts, for both research and professional development design
Cautions:Some NGSS and language constructs are difficult for teachers to interpret consistently
Validation evidence is currently strongest for elementary (K–6) teachers
Relies on self-reported practices rather than direct observation
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Science educationThe Teaching NGSS Science with Multilingual Learners Questionnaire is a teacher survey that measures elementary teachers’ beliefs, preparedness, and instructional practices for teaching science to multilingual learners under the Next Generation Science Standards. Developed by Grapin and colleagues…The Abbreviated School Climate Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Abbreviated School Climate Survey (ASCS), an abbreviated version of the 100-item School Climate survey developed by the Developmental Studies Center (now known as the Center for the Collaborative Classroom), is a 34-item assessment of school climate that includes 7 of the 11 subscales from the…The Academic Motivation Scale (AMS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Echelle de Motivation en Education (EME) is based on the tenets of self-determination theory and is composed of 28 items subdivided into 7 subscales assessing three types of intrinsic motivation (intrinsic motivation to know, to accomplish things, and to experience stimulation), three types of…The Bridge-Positive Youth Development (Bridge-PYD)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Bridge-Positive Youth Development measure is an open-source, 40-item Likert survey initially validated using responses from 7-18-year-old children in a community-based after school program in Denver, CO. It uses a resilience-based framework incorporating the 5 Cs: Competence, Confidence,…The Brief Resilience Scale (BRS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe brief resilience scale (BRS) was created to assess the ability to bounce back or recover from stress. The BRS is comprised of 6 items. Items 1, 3, and 5 are positively worded while items 2, 4, and 6 are negatively worded. The BRS is scored by reverse coding items 2, 4, and 6, and finding the…The Culturally Affirming Climate Survey (CACS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions: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…The Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions: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.The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (ERQ-CA)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingA revised version of the ERQ, the ERQ-CA is meant to be used in non-adult samples. Revision of the ERQ visible in the ERQ-CA include simplification of item wording and a switch from a 7-point Likert scale to a 5-point Likert scale. Subscore(s): Cognitive Reappraisal, Expressive Suppression,…The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Higher educationThe ERQ (Gross & John, 2003) comprises 10 items assessing the ER strategies of CR (6 items) and ES (4 items). Items are rated on a 7-point Likert-type response scale. Higher scores on each scale indicate greater use of the corresponding ER strategy. Subscore(s): Cognitive Reappraisal, Expressive…The Flourishing Children Project (FCP)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Flourishing Children Project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, has constructed 20 scales based on a nationally representative sample to measure different dimensions of personal flourishing. The scales are open access, and many offer versions for both adolescents (ages 12-18) and parents…The Hemingway Measure of Adolescent Connectedness
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions: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.The Hemingway Measure of Late Adolescent Connectedness
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions: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.The Mathematics Classroom Connectedness Scale (MCCS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Quick and easy to administer
Cautions:Validated with students in Grades 5-9
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Mathematics Classroom Connectedness Scale (MCCS) is a student survey that measures how connected and supported students feel in their math classroom. It focuses on middle-grade learners. The scale asks students about their relationships with their math teacher, the sense of community in the…The Momentary Emotion Assessment Tool
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Momentary Emotion Assessment Tool is designed to track students' emotions and their responses in real time at school. This tool helps researchers and educators understand momentary emotions, how they change, and assess the impact of interventions aimed at improving students' school experiences…The Motivation and Engagement Scale-University/College (MES-UC)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingCreated along the Motivation and Engagement Wheel, the Motivation and Engagement Scale consists of eleven motivation and engagement subscales congruent with the eleven first-order factors in the Wheel (i.e., self-efficacy, valuing, mastery orientation, planning, task management, persistence,…The Motivation and Engagement Scale Junior (MES-J)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingCreated along the Motivation and Engagement Wheel, the Motivation and Engagement Scale consists of eleven motivation and engagement subscales congruent with the eleven first-order factors in the Wheel (i.e., self-efficacy, valuing, mastery orientation, planning, task management, persistence,…The Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance for Young Children (PSPCSAYC)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingPSPCSAYC is a pictorial scale of perceived competence and social acceptance for young children, tapping 4 domains with 6 items each: cognitive competence, physical competence, peer acceptance, and maternal acceptance. Items differ somewhat for some scales across the two age levels. For the PSPCSAYC…The Problem Solving Inventory (PSI)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe PSI assesses an individual's awareness and evaluation of his or her problem-solving abilities or style, thus provides a global of that individual as a problem solver.The PSI is a self-reported measure . The PSI consists of 35 six-point Likert items (with 3 filler questions), which constitute 3…The Scale for Teachers' Assessment of Routines Engagement (STARE)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Scale for Teachers‘ Assessment of Routines Engagement (STARE) documents teachers‘ perspectives of a child‘s engagement in classroom activities. Suitable for both typically developing children and children with disabilities, STARE focuses on how much time the child was engaged with adults, peers…The School Success Profile (SSP)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe SSP is an online survey featuring 195 multiple-choice questions. These questions explore students' perceptions of their social surroundings—neighborhoods, schools, friends, and families—as well as their own physical and psychological well-being and academic performance (individual adaptation)…The Self-Construal Scale
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Self-Construal scale is a 30 items scale used to measure how people view themselves in relation to others. 2 subscales; interdependent self-construal and independent self-construal, comprise this scale. Each item is answered using a 7-point rating scale (1=strongly disagree, 4=neither agree or…