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Children's Behavior Questionnaire (CBQ)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe CBQ uses caregiver reports to provide a detailed profile of young children's temperament. The CBQ was designed to be used for research purposes. Subscore(s): 15 subscores are reported: Positive anticipation, High-intensity pleasure, Smiling/Laughter, Activity level, Impulsivity,…Children's Empathic Attitudes Questionnaire (CEAQ)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Children's Empathic Attitudes Questionnaire (CEAQ) is a self-report measure of empathic attitudes (modifiable knowledge structures that influence behavioural choice) towards peers, teachers, other children, animals, or other people.Children's Sadness Management Scale (CSMS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Children's Sadness Management Scale (CSMS) was developed to assess children's inhibition, dysregulated-expression, and coping with sadness experience and expression Subscore(s): There are three subscores: Dysregulated expression, Emotion regulation coping, Inhibition Note: The…Children's Self-Efficacy Scale (CSES)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Children's Self-Efficacy Scale (CSES) provides information about children's perceptions of the social and academic tasks that are difficult for them. Subscore(s): 1. Self-efficacy in enlisting social resources 2. Self-efficacy for academic achievement 3. Self-efficacy for self-regulated…Children's Worry Management Scales (CWMS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Children's Worry Management Scale (CWMS) is designed to understand how children manage anxiety and worry. Subscore(s): 1. Inhibition 2. Dysregulation 3. Coping Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced from the instrument publisher's or author’s…Childrens Empathic Attitudes Questionnaire (CEAQ)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Children's Empathic Attitudes Questionnaire (CEAQ) is a self-report measure of empathic attitudes (modifiable knowledge structures that influence behavioural choice) towards peers, teachers, other children, animals, or other people. Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes…Class Conduct Questionnaire (CCQ)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Class Conduct Questionnaire (CCQ) uses self-report to measure social skills among high school-aged youth. Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced from the instrument publisher's or author’s website (or other site providing information about…Classroom Assessment Scoring System (CLASS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Classroom Assessment Scoring System ™ (CLASS ™) is an observational instrument developed to assess instructional quality in PK-12 classrooms. It is a tool for analyzing the quality of teacher-student interactions in the classroom by capturing multiple dimensions of teaching that are linked to…Classroom Belonging Measure
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingStudent-reported sense of class cohesion, belonging, trust, and feeling heard. Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced from the instrument publisher's or author’s website (or other site providing information about the instrument). This information…Classroom Climate Assessment Instrument Secondary Staff (CCAI-S-G)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe School Climate Assessment Instruments (SCAI), developed by the Alliance for the Study of School Climate (ASSC), are research-based tools designed to measure various dimensions of school climate. These instruments assess perceptions of students, staff, and parents to provide a comprehensive…Classroom Climate Scale
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Classroom Climate Scale was created to gauge elementary students' perceptions of school climate. It measures four key dimensions of school climate to help teachers improve school climate and classroom management. It builds on a previous school climate measure used in Chilean public schools by…Clifton StrengthsFinder
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Higher educationThe Clifton StrengthsFinder is a strengths-based measure of individual emotional, cognitive, and social skills and talents. Subscore(s): There are 34 distinct themes. Examples include "Achiever," "Command," "Empathy," and "Self-assurance." The technical report contains detailed information about…Clifton Youth Strengths Explorer (CYSE)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Clifton Youth Strengths Explorer (CYSE) is a strengths-based measure of individual emotional, cognitive, and social skills and talents. Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced from the instrument publisher's or author’s website (or other…Cognia ™ Student Engagement Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Cognia™ Student Engagement Survey measures student engagement across elementary, middle, and high school levels by capturing students' perspectives on their learning experiences. It assesses engagement through three domains: behavioral (efforts and participation), cognitive (investment in…College Mathematics Beliefs and Belonging Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Easy to administer
Cautions:Validated in post-secondary students; Possibly more useful for researchers in its current form
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe College Mathematics Beliefs and Belonging Survey (CMBB) is a student survey designed to understand how undergraduate students experience mathematics in their early college years. It asks about students’ views of their own mathematical thinking, their beliefs about what mathematics is and how it…College Student Subjective Wellbeing Questionnaire
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe CSSWQ was intentionally designed as a brief measure of cumulative subjective well-being. As such, only one or two relevant indicators were selected to represent each well-being domain, resulting in a measurement model consisting of five college-grounded positive psychology traits: college…Color-Blind Racial Attitudes Scale (CoBRAS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions: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, (c)…Communities that Care Youth Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Communities That Care (CTC) Youth Survey, developed by Drs. J. David Hawkins and Richard Catalano at the University of Washington’s Social Development Research Group, is a key tool from the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention, part of the U.S. Government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health…Community and Youth Collaborative Institute (CAYCI) School Experiences Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThis body of surveys include forms for teacher/staff and parent/caregiver responses in addition to student responses. Each survey can include a number of scales which can be included or excluded according to the goals of the survey administrator. Some of these subscales include academic motivation,…Comprehensive School Climate Inventory (CSCI)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Comprehensive School Climate Inventory (CSCI) is a nationally-recognized and empircally validated school climate survey that provides an in-depth profile of your school community‘s particular strengths, as well as areas for improvement. With the CSCI, you can quickly and accurately assess…Computationally Intensive Science Career Interests (CISCI) Instrument
Expert NotesStrengths:Well suited for examining whether computationally rich science activities are associated with changes in students’ career interests
Cautions:Targets computationally intensive science careers and thus is less useful for studies examining general STEM career interests
Relies on self-report rather than actual course-taking decisions or career trajectories
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Science educationThe Computationally Intensive Science Career Interests Instrument (CISCI) is an instument that explores middle school students' interests in disciplines and careers requiring both traditional scientific knowledge and computer science (CS)-related understanding and skills. It contains 5 constucts or…Computationally Intensive Science Career Interests (CISCI) Instrument
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Science educationThe Computationally Intensive Science Career Interests Instrument (CISCI) is an instument that explores middle school students' interests in careers in the intensive sciences. It contains 5 constucts/ dimensions: CIS career value, CIS academic self-efficacy, CIS career self-efficacy, CIS career…Conceptions of Engineering: Photo Novellas Assignment and Codebook (Hammack et al., 2024)
Expert NotesStrengths:Supports engagement of rural and Indigenous students through local funds of knowledge
Multimodal format that is accessible to young learners
Cautions:Requires student access to cameras or cameraphones
Time- and labor-intensive to code and analyze
Deductive codebook may miss emergent or culturally specific ideas
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Science educationThe Conceptions of Engineering: Photo Novellas Assignment and Codebook is an instrument that uses photo "novella" (story) to investigate primary-grade students understanding of engineering in rural and reservation communities.The codebook was developed by two engineering professors and two…Conditions for Learning (CfL) Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: BelongingAIR supports improved student and school performance through the Conditions for Learning Survey, administered in schools across the United States, including the Cleveland Metropolitan School District. The survey assesses four core constructs within elementary, middle and high schools: A safe and…Continuing Motivation Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Measures not only engagement but avoidance, enabling differentiation between lack of interest and active disengagement.
Cautions:Mentions of media types where students might encounter science content need updating (e.g. magazine subscriptions)
Take care when scoring: Some items are reverse-coded.
Not to be used as a diagnostic for individuals.
If you want to use it for ages other than late elementary/middle, verify its reliability and validity with those other age groups first.
Doesn't make sense with populations who don't have internet access.
Zoos, nature hikes, and natural history museums are left out of the survey items because they weren't relevant to the population originally tested on
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Science educationThe Continuing Motivation Survey (CMS) is a survey that assesses students' engagement with science content outside of school. It is composed of 19 instruments, and studies students' motivation around science education outside of school and school-mandated education.The term "continuing motivation"…Coopersmith Self-Esteem Inventory (School Form) (CSEI-SC)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe CSEI-SC measures self-concept, and it can be used for individual diagnosis, classroom screening, or pre-post evaluation. Subscore(s): Lie scale, General self, Social self-peers, Home-parents, School-academic Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been…Coping Flexibility Scale
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Coping Flexibility Scale is a 10-item assessment containing two subscales that measure evaluation coping and adapative coping. Each subscale contains 5 items that are rated on a 4-point Likert scale. Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced…Core Districts Social Emotional Learning Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Higher educationThe CORE Districts, a group of districts in California committed to measuring and supporting an expanded definition of student success, have created a survey to identify the social-emotional strengths and needs for students in grades 4-12. This survey asks students about their perceptions of their…Cornell Critical Thinking Test
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe CCTT is designed to assess students‘ reasoning ability. The assessment spans five subscales: Induction, Deduction, Observation, Credibility, and Assumptions. Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced from the instrument publisher's or author’s…CoVitality Social Emotional Health Surveys (SEHS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe CoVitality SEHS, partially funded by IES at the US Department of Education, aligns with national frameworks of social-emotional competencies, measuring student strengths. There are three forms for use in corresponding grade levels: primary, secondary, and higher education. Note: The overview…