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Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student LearningThe Phonological Awareness Literacy Screening (PALS) is a tool that focuses on fundamental literacy skills. The assessment offers instruments for PreK-3,with a Spanish version available as well. PALS is the state-provided screening assessment for Virginia's Early Intervention Reading Initiative …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 (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 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 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…Postsecondary education-going access aspirations (PEG-AA) scale
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:The postsecondary education-going access aspirations (PEG-AA) scale proposed by Martinez et al. (2017) focuses on students’ ability to sustain hopes and dreams for the future despite real or perceived barriers. PEG-AA has 14 Likert-type questions (from 1 “not important” to 3 “very important”) on…Postsecondary education-going knowledge (PEG-K) scale
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:The postsecondary education-going knowledge (PEG-K) scale developed by Martinez et al. (2017) focuses on the knowledge of various requirements for applying and enrolling in college. PEG-K has 46 true-false questions on three domains: access, preparedness/readiness, and affordability. In a sample of…Practical Measures, Routines & Representations (PMR²) Small Group Work Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Easy to use practical measure; Designed for use of teachers to guide improvement efforts
Cautions:Not validated with external measures; Should not be used for evaluation
Topics: Student LearningThe Small Group Work Survey is a short student survey used to understand how small-group activities are working during math lessons. It is part of the broader PMR suite of practical measurement tools designed to support continuous instructional improvement, not formal evaluation. The survey is…Practical Measures, Routines & Representations (PMR²) Whole Class Discussion Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Easy to use practical measure; Designed for use of teachers to guide improvement efforts
Cautions:Not validated with external measures; Should not be used for evaluation
Topics: Student LearningThe Practical Measures, Routines & Representations (PMR²) Whole Class Discussion Survey is a short student survey to gather quick feedback about what happens during a whole-class discussion in mathematics. It is part of the PMR² suite of tools developed by researchers to support continuous…Practical Measures, Routines & Representations (PMR²) Task Analysis Tool
Expert NotesStrengths:Easy to use practical measure; Designed for use of teachers to guide improvement efforts
Cautions:Not validated with external measures; Should not be used for evaluation
Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentThe Practical Measures, Routines & Representations (PMR²) Task Analysis Tool is an observation and planning tool used to examine the level of cognitive rigor built into a mathematics task before it is taught. It helps teachers and instructional teams look closely at what students must actually…Predictive Assessment of Reading (PAR)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student LearningThe Predictive Assessment of Reading (PAR) can be used to measure a student's reading level, identify skills in need of intervention, monitor progress, and predict future reading achievement. The assessment contains four reading subtests that can be administered to special needs, gifted, ELL…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 Learning Behaviors Scale (PLBS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student LearningTeachers rate children’s approaches to learning using the PLBS (PLBS; McDermott, Leigh, & Perry, 2002). In general, content focuses on attentiveness, responses to novelty and correction, observed problem‐solving strategy, flexibility, reflectivity, initiative, self‐direction, and cooperative…Preschool Program Quality Assessment, 2nd edition (PQA)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentThe current revision of the PQA includes two notable differences from earlier versions: 1) the number of content areas has increased from four to seven, and 2) the scoring system has been revised to adequately measure the full range of quality along each quality construct. As described by the…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…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…Preservice Teacher Feedback Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentTags: Professional developmentThe Preservice Teacher Feedback Survey measures beliefs about classroom feedback practices and confidence in giving feedback to students. The measure is designed for use by preservice teachers to assess the extent to which their beliefs and confidence in giving feedback align with research on…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…Protocol for Language Arts Teaching Observation (PLATO)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentThe Protocol for Language Arts Teaching Observations (PLATO) is a classroom observation protocol designed to evaluate thirteen elements of English Language Arts (ELA) instruction. It was originally developed for a study of the relationship between teachers' classroom practices and their impact on…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 Classroom Instruction (QCI)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentThe Quality of Classroom Instruction (QCI) measures the quality of explicit instruction. QCI examines the following eight aspects of instructional interactions: teacher modeling, instructional pacing, response time, transitions between activities, student engagement, learning success, checks 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:…ReadBasix
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student LearningReadBasix is a web-administered reading assessment for students in grades 3–12. ReadBasix measures foundational reading skills including word recognition & decoding, vocabulary, sentence processing, reading efficiency, and other skills involved in reading comprehension via separate subtests.The…