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Readiness and Expectations Questionnaire (REQ)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:The Readiness and Expectations Questionnaire (REQ) is a researcher-designed instrument for measuring first-year postsecondary students’ expectations and preparedness for studying in college (Jansen et al., 2013; Jansen & van der Meer, 2007). In the domain of student expectations, the REQ…REAL Math Toolkit Observation and Debrief Protocol
Expert NotesStrengths:Designed for use of teachers to guide improvement efforts; Tested with teachers in grades 7-12; Easy to use practical measure
Cautions:Not validated with external measures; Should not be used for evaluation
Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentThe REAL Math Toolkit Observation and Debrief Protocol is a pair of tools designed to support teachers and coaches in examining how culturally responsive and sustaining mathematics instruction shows up in a single lesson. The Observation Protocol provides a focused set of indicators tied to key…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.Recognizing Effective Special Education Teachers (RESET)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentTags: Instructional practicesRESET is a special education teacher observation system that includes observation protocols aligned with evidence-based instructional practices for students with high-incidence disabilities. Subscore(s): Explicit instruction Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content…Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentTags: Instructional practicesThe Reformed Teaching Observation Protocol (RTOP) is an observational instrument used to assess the degree to which mathematics or science instruction in grades K-12 is "reformed." Trained observers rate teachers' instruction across three domains: Lesson Design and Implementation, Content, and…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…Renaissance Fundamentals Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student LearningFormerly called Pupil Attitudes to Self and School® (PASS), the Renaissance Fundamentals survey assesses how students feel about school and themselves as a learner, including connectedness, self-efficacy, and motivation. The Renaissance Fundamentals survey can be used as a universal screener to…Research Assessment Package for Schools (RAPS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student LearningTags: BelongingCurrently, the RAPS includes five separate but integrated measurement tools assessing aspects of three of the four major components described above: RAPS-R, a strategy for analyzing and reporting data from student records (component 1); RAPS-S, a survey given to students to assess their levels of…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…Scale of Ethnocultural Empathy (SEE)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingSelf-report instrument that measures empathy toward people of racial and ethnic backgrounds different from one‘s own. SEE is composed of three instrumental aspects: intellectual empathy, empathic emotions, and the communication of these perspectives to others via word or action. These resolve into…Scale of Teacher Empathy for African American Males (S-TEAAM)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentThe Scale of Teacher Empathy for African American Males (S-TEAAM) measures teachers‘ conceptions of empathy and the application of empathy with Black males. Subscore(s): Empathy; Affirmation; Student-teacher relationships Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may…School Achievement Motivation Rating Scale (SAMRS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: MotivationThe SAMRS was developed as a tool that could be used by teachers to assess behavioral characteristics that are associated with academic achievement motivation.School-Age Care Environment Rating Scale (SACERS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe School – Age Care Environment Rating Scale (SACERS) measures environmental quality in school age care settings. Subscore(s): SEL‐Supportive Environments Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced from the instrument publisher's or author’s…School Belongingness Scale (SBS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe School Belongingness Scale (SBS) is a 10-item measure of students' sense of belonging in the school as a whole as well as their relationships with teachers and peers. The measure includes items related to "Social Exclusion" and "Social Acceptance." Note: The overview provided for this…School Climate and Connectedness Survey (SCCS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThousands of Alaska students, staff and families take the School Climate and Connectedness Survey (SCCS) each year to transform school climate and strengthen relationships, factors linked to academic outcomes. AASB’s School Climate & Connectedness Survey is a voluntary statewide survey…School Climate and School Identification Measure (SCASIM-St)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe School Climate and School Identification Measure was designed to assess four critical (Student-student relations, Student-staff relations, Shared values and approach, and Academic emphasis) school climate factors along with a social identity measure of school identification in students ranging…School Climate Assessment
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThis School Climate Assessment has been designed for both informal and formal school safety assessments for K–5 educators and administrators. This tool is based on the main categories that were measured in an evaluation of a multi-state pilot of Welcoming Schools. Note: The overview provided for…School Climate Assessment Instruments
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe ASSC School Climate Assessment Instrument (SCAI) to promote improved school climate, psychological factors related to high functioning schools and students. Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced from the instrument publisher's or author’s…School Climate for Diversity (SCD-S)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe School Climate for Diversity (SCD-S) is a student-reported school racial climate survey for middle and high school students that evaluates ten subscales in two domains (intergroup interactions and school racial socialization) of racial climatetapping. Note: The overview provided for this…School Climate Inventory - Revised (SCI-R)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe School Climate Inventory-Revised (SCI-R) was originally developed to determine the effect of school reform efforts. Dean Butler and Martha Alberg (Butler & Alberg, 1991) developed SCI-R for the Center for Research in Educational Policy (CREP) at the University of Memphis. It was published…School Climate Measure (SCM)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThis revised version of the School Climate Measure (SCM) is a 42-item measure comprised of 10 subscales, all rated on a 5-point Likert scale. An additional 2 subscales, Parental Involvement and Opportunities for Student Engagement, have been added to the original 8 subscales (Positive Student…School Climate Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe School Climate Survey (SCS), comprised of 40 question items, is utilized to assess children‘s perceptions of the quality of their school‘s climate by measuring the prevalence of behaviors within the school that correspond to specific interpersonal and intrapersonal character traits. All items…School Climate Surveys
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingExcerpted Description: Tennessee has created an infrastructure for measuring school climate through the construction of reliable and validated survey measurement tools that are custom designed with stakeholder input from students, parents and educators in Tennessee. The survey measurement tools…School Climate Walkthrough
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe School Climate Walkthrough is a web-based tool for secondary schools where students spend 15 minutes in the morning and afternoon assessing their school climate. It provides instant scoring and a digital report on nine domains, including safety, relationships, and respect for diversity. Results…School Connection Scale
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingSchool Connectedness Scale assesses the degree to which students agree that at their school they feel close to people, happy, a part of the school, safe, and treated fairly. Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced from the instrument publisher's…