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Pedagogical Content Knowledge Self-Report for Biology (PCK SR -bio)
Expert NotesStrengths:Applicable across preservice teacher populations at different stages of preparation
Useful for examining links between content knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge
Efficient multiple-choice format that supports objective scoring and test economy
Cautions:Evidence primarily drawn from preservice teachers rather than in-service biology teachers
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Science educationThe 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,…Pedagogical Content Knowledge in Biology Inventory (PCK-IBI)
Expert NotesStrengths:Informed by expert review for content validity
Practical for large-scale or program-level assessment contexts
Cautions:Developed and validated primarily with German pre-service biology teachers
Some items show potential bias, raising concerns about test fairness
Generalizability to in-service teachers is uncertain
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Science educationThe 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),…Penn Interactive Preschool Play Scales
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingPlay 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…Personal and Academic Self-Concept Inventory (PASCI)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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)…Personal Skills Map - Long Version (PSM)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: MotivationThe 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,…Piers-Harris Children's Self-Concept Scale, Third Edition
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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…Playground Observation of Peer Engagement (POPE)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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…Positive Youth Development Student Questionnaire (Short Form, SF) (Very Short Form, VSF)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThis tool can be used to measure change in PYD from the start of a program to the end. 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…Positive Youth Development Student Questionnaire (PYDSQ)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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 Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes…Positive Youth Development Sustainability Scale (PYDSS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThis 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…Preschool and Kindergarten Behavior Scales-Second Edition (PKBS-2)
Expert NotesStrengths:Easy to use, can be completed by teachers or parents, only takes 12 minutes to administer, widely used and validated in the ECLS-B.
Cautions:Only available for use with children ages 3 through 6 years, so not a good choice for studies with older children or longitudinal studies that go past kindergarten.
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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…Preschool Self‐Regulation Assessment (PSRA)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingSeveral 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…Preschool Self-Regulation Assessment (PSRA)
Expert NotesStrengths:Easy to use, covers the relevant age range.
Cautions:Needs to be completed by an observer, not the teacher, so best included in the context of a larger set of direct assessments as a post-assessment rating.
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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…Pride Learning Environment Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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…Pride Teaching Environment
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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…Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)
Expert NotesStrengths:Internationally benchmarked measure of students’ scientific literacy
Emphasizes application of science knowledge to real-world contexts
Enables cross-national and trend comparisons over time
Cautions:Designed for system-level monitoring rather than classroom or student diagnosis
Limited alignment with specific national curricula or instructional goals
Snapshot assessment that does not capture learning processes or instruction
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Science educationThe 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…Psychological Sense of School Membership Scale (PSSM)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Psychological Sense of School Membership includes 18 items that measure adolescent students' perceived belonging or psychological membership in the school environment.Psychological Wellbeing Scale
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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…Pupils’ Attitudes Towards Socioscientific Issues (PASSI) Questionnaire
Expert NotesStrengths:Usefulness and liking of SSI are distinguished
Cautions:The subscale "dependency on others" consists of two items, raising questions about the validity of this particular subscale
The ability to predict behavioral and cognitive engagement with SSI was not tested
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Science educationThe 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…Pure Procrastination Scale (PPS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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…Quality of School Life Scale (QSL)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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 Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced from…REACH (Developmental Relationships) Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThis 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 Note:…Realistic Investigative Artistic Social Enterprising Convention and Networking (RIASEC + N Context-Linked version)
Expert NotesStrengths:Captures how interests are shaped by learning environments, relationships, and opportunities
Useful for career exploration and guidance in educational settings
Flexible across secondary, postsecondary, and informal learning contexts
Cautions:Not suitable for quick screening or high-stakes decision making
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Science educationDeveloped 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.Regulatory Focus Questionnaire (RFQ)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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…Relationship Questionnaire (Rel-Q)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingDesigned 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…Researcher Identity Survey-Form G (RISG)
Expert NotesStrengths:Specifically designed to measure high school students’ researcher identity
Short, easy-to-administer self-report instrument with clear interpretability
Cautions:Validated only with high school students
One item shows differential functioning by race and should be monitored
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Science educationThe Research Identity Survey-Form G (RISG) is a questionnaire containing 12 Likert-style items. It was created to assess researcher identity and self-identification in high school students. Resiliency Inventory
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingAdapted from the Resilience Inventory (Noam & Goldstein, 1998), a 44‐item measure of adolescence resilience. (Song 2003) Taps various domains of resilience: The Optimism (OP) subscale concerns the respondent’s positive perspective on the world and the future. The Self‐Efficacy (SE) subscale…Rosenberg Self Esteem Scale (RSES)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Rosenberg Self-Esteem Scale (RSES) is a 10-item scale measuring self-esteem within respondents. Half of the scale items are worded positively, while the other half are worded negatively. Each scale item is answered using a 4-point Likert scale, with 1 being strongly agree and 4 being strongly…Rothbart Temperament Scales – Infant, Early Childhood, Child
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThree higher‐order temperament factors pertinent to the assessment of emotional expressiveness and regulation have been isolated: (a) negative affectivity, (b) surgency; and (c) effortful control (Rothbart et al, 1994). Taken together, they comprise a child's constitutional, individual pattern of…Rumble's Quest
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingRumble’s Quest is a robust and reliable measure of social and emotional wellbeing for primary school children. It is presented as an engaging computer game that makes it easy for children to respond to questions in a natural way. Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content…