The Instruments

PAIRIN Pro is an all-inclusive coaching and development tool that dynamically matches people to optimal job profiles and training programs, identifies individual skill gaps, and provides tools and resources to help develop those skills to ensure each person reaches their full potential.

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Student: Skills and Competencies includes items on Social Awareness. How well students consider the perspectives of others and empathize with them. Student: Supports and Environment includes items on Diversity and Inclusion.  How diverse, integrated, and fair school is for students from different races, ethnicities, or cultures. (Only for students in grades 6-12.) Cultural Awareness and Action. How often students learn about, discuss, and confront issues of race, ethnicity, and culture in school. Student: Well-Being includes items on Supportive Relationships. How supported students feel through their relationships with friends, family, and adults at school. All surveys are built on the same matrix which measures school experience in the three broad areas of (1) engagement (2) safety and (3) environment. This allows for comparison among student, parent and teacher surveys for a school. School level data can be aggregated to develop district level reports.

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The Panorama Social-Emotional Learning Student Surveys are comprehensive surveys designed to measure social-emotional competencies of students and how they are supported in classrooms and schools. All surveys are built on the same matrix which measures school experience in the three broad areas of (1) engagement (2) safety and (3) environment. This allows for comparison among Panorama student, parent and teacher surveys for a school. School level data can be aggregated to develop district level reports. Subscore(s): Grit, Growth mindset, Learning strategies, Social perspective taking, Self-efficacy, Emotion regulation, Classroom effort

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The Panorama Teacher and Staff Survey gathers teacher and staff perceptions of their professional well-being; capacity and efficacy around supporting academic, social, and emotional learning; professional learning opportunities; cultural competency and awareness; school climate and culture; and relationships with colleagues, families, and school leadership. Similar to Panorama's other survey instruments, you may customize the survey by selecting the scales that you feel matter most to your community. The survey includes 22 scales, including scales of school climate, educating all students, staff-family relationships, belonging, cultural awareness and action (student focus), and cultural awareness and action (teacher focus).

PALS is used to investigate the relationship between a student's learning environment and their affect, motivation, and behavior. It consists of both a student scale and a teacher scale. The student scale investigates personal achievement goal orientations, perceptions of teacher goals, perceptions of the goal structures in the classroom, achievement related beliefs, and perceptions of parents and home life. The teacher scale investigates perceptions of goal structures in the school, goal-related approaches to instruction, and personal teaching efficacy.  Subscore(s): Learning environments, Achievement beliefs

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The Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Biology Inventory (PCK-IBI) is a 34-item assessment with a mix of closed-ended and open-ended items. It was designed to measure the content knowledge of pre-service biology teachers (secondary level). It is made up of the Pedagogical Content Knowledge (PCK), Subject Matter Knowledge (SMK), Nature of Science (NOS), Pedagogical Knowledge (PK), Self-concept related to PCK, Beliefs in knowledge transmission, and Beliefs in cognitive construction.

The PCK SR-Bio (Pedagogical Content Knowledge Self-Report for Biology) is a survey scale designed to assess teachers’ self-perceived knowledge of how to effectively teach biology concepts. It measures dimensions of pedagogical content knowledge, including understanding of students’ misconceptions, instructional strategies, curriculum design, and assessment methods specific to biology education. It contains 16 items, and focuses on pre-service middle and high school teachers.

Play Interaction is an indication of children’s play strengths and includes such behaviors as comforting and helping other children, showing creativity in play, and encouraging others to join play. Play Disruption describes aggressive, antisocial behaviors that interfere with on-going peer play interactions. Play Disconnection reflects withdrawn behavior and nonparticipation in peer play. "Play is an important vehicle for children’s social, emotional, and cognitive development, as well as a reflection of their development” (Bredekamp & Copple, 1997 p. 6). Derives information on young children’s social competence, in context (Fantuzzo, Sutton‐Smith, Coolahan, Manz, Canning, & Debnam, 1995; McWayne, Sekino, Hampton, & Fantuzzo, 2002).

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The Personal and Academic Self-Concept Inventory (PASCI) measures self-concept and social anxiety. Subscore(s): There are seven subscores: (1) Self regard (2) Social acceptance (3) Self-concept of math ability (4) Self-concept of verbal ability (5) Physical appearance (6) Physical ability (7) Social anxiety

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The Personal Skills Map (PSM) is designed for individuals to self-assess key personal, interpersonal, life, and career skills essential to performance, healthy relationships, personal productivity, career success, and health. The PSM can be used in human resource development and education programs, consultation, training in business and industry, management development, and self-directed learning. Subscore(s): There are 14 subscores: (1) Self-esteem (2) Interpersonal assertion (3) Interpersonal awareness (4) Empathy (5) Drive strength/Motivation (6) Decisionmaking (7) Time management (8) Sales orientation/Leadership (9) Commitment ethic (10) Stress management (11) Physical wellness (12) Interpersonal aggression (13) Interpersonal deference (14) Personal change orientation

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The Piers-Harris Self-Concept Scale assesses self-concept in children and adolescents. It can be used as a research tool, to monitor change in self-concept over time, and as a screening tool for identifying individuals who need further testing or treatment. Subscore(s): (1) Behavioral adjustment (2) Intellectual and school status (3) Physical appearance and attributes (4) Freedom from anxiety (5) Popularity (6) Happiness and satisfaction

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The Playground Observation of Peer Engagement (POPE) is an observation-based instrument measuring children‘s engagement in activities and with peers in naturalistic environments. It focuses on the time children spend in various engagement states and the frequency of their social engagement states and behaviors (games and conversations, parallel play, observing others, and solitary play). 

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This tool can be used to measure change in PYD from the start of a program to the end.

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The PYDSQ was developed to model pathways of positive youth development and can be used for the planning and development of interventions and youth programs. Subscore(s): (1) Competence (2) Connection (3) Character (4) Confidence (5) Caring

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This scale is meant to be used as a self-reporting tool to assess the impacts of positive youth development programs. These programs are meant to provide opportunities for youth to increase their skills, abilities, and interests in positive activities. This scale was created for both domestic and international use. This scale was based on the PYDI (Arnold et al.) but adjusted with items removed and a construct to measure happiness added. Subscore(s): Development

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The Preschool and Kindergarten Behavior Scales–Second Edition (PKBS-2) is a behavior rating scale designed to assess young children’s social skills and problem behaviors. It provides a balanced view of both positive and challenging behaviors, making it useful for understanding children’s overall social-emotional development in early learning settings.

Several observational tasks that show good value as denoting children’s ability to regulate emotions have been identified by Kochanska and colleagues. Radiah Smith‐Donald and Cybele Raver are now piloting a very clear, detailed use of such tasks, with specific measurement of the child’s performance both quantitatively and qualitatively.

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The Preschool Self-Regulation Assessment (PSRA) is a direct assessment designed to measure young children’s ability to manage their emotions, attention, and behavior in structured settings. It uses a short series of hands-on tasks and assessor observations to capture different aspects of self-regulation in preschool-aged children. The PSRA includes activities that assess impulse control, attention, and executive functioning—skills that help children follow directions, stay focused, and control their actions.

The Pride Learning Environment Survey is a comprehensive school climate survey designed for students in grades 6 to 12. This assessment measures aspects ranging from student-teacher relationships to student mental health and teacher involvement alone with several additional concepts. The Pride Learning Environment Survey can be administered in conjunction with the Pride Teaching Environment survey in order to to directly compare teacher and student responses.

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The Pride Teaching Environment Survey provides a context by which whole schools are measured. After undergoing more than three years of psychometric testing of responses drawn from 72,000 teachers, the data produced by this comprehensive school climate survey has been found proven and valid to help school administrators foster an environment of teacher satisfaction and student success.

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The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is a large-scale international assessment developed by the OECD to measure 15-year-old students’ knowledge and skills in reading, mathematics, and science. The assessment includes a mix of multiple-choice and constructed-response items, with test booklets containing roughly 60–90 items depending on the subject and cycle.

The Psychological Wellbeing Scale (PWB) is comprised of several subscales (self acceptance, positive relationships with others, autonomy, environmental mastery, purpose in life, and personal growth) that measures six aspects of wellbeing and happiness. Individuals respond to the 42 items within this measure using a seven-point Likert scale.

The Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Socioscientific Issues (PASSI) Questionnaire is a student survey designed to measure young people’s attitudes toward complex, real-world issues that connect science with social, ethical, and environmental considerations. The instrument examines how students think and feel about socioscientific topics, including their interest, values, and willingness to engage in discussion or decision-making.

The 12-item Pure Procrastination Scale (PPS) was created by combining the 12 highest loading items from 3 other procrastination assessments. Respondent indicate their answers to question items on a 5-point Likert Scale ranging from 1 (very seldom or not true of me) to 5 (very often true or true of me). The PPS has been translated into several languages. Subscore(s): Decisional Delay, Irrational Delay, Delay in meeting deadlines/timeliness

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The Quality of School Life Scale (QSL) measures the extent to which students have positive attitudes toward school. Subscore(s): Satisfaction with school, Commitment to classwork, Reactions to teachers

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This survey measures social, emotional, and other factors on a student's learning motivation. It can be used to capture a one-time snapshot of academic motivation drivers or administered multiple times to assess change in students' motivation and strengths over time. Subscore(s): Motivation

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Developed by Dierks et al. (2014) and adapted by Blankenburg et al. (2016) and Dierks et al. (2016), this questionnaire contains 93 Likert-style items graded on a four-point rating scale. It contains 3 science contexts: biology, chemistry, and physics.

The Regulatory Focus Questionnaire (RFQ) differentiates between: A prevention focus that emphasizes safety and responsibility, views goals as oughts, and is concerned with non-losses and losses. The RFQ was derived from a factor analysis of items assessing the history of individuals‘ success at promotion and prevention tasks over the course of their lives. This questionnaire consists of 11 items that are answered on a scale of 1-5. Subscore(s): Regulatory Focus, Promotion, Prevention

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Designed for the evaluation of school‐based character education programs. Multiple choice measure of psychosocial maturity derived from developmental theory that identifies the capacity to differentiate and coordinate the social perspectives of self and other to be central to treating other people in respectful and ethical ways. Items in the measure pose dilemmas common social situations with peers or adults. Uses a model of relationship awareness that includes 3 social‐cognitive constructs which are: 1) interpersonal understanding or social reasoning 2) interpersonal negotiation strategies or conflict resolution in thought and action and 3) awareness of the personal meaning of relationships. Relationship framework, in describing how social‐cognitive capacities underlie social interaction and development, addresses a common critique of cognitive‐ developmental approaches to sociomoral research: that there is little relation between the development of social cognition and real‐world action.

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