Self-Regulated Online Learning Questionnaire
Expert NotesStrengths:Designed and validated specifically for online learning and MOOCs; assesses students’ self-regulated learning strategies in this context. Tested with both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis.
Cautions:Limited evidence for K–12, face-to-face, or non-online learning contexts.
Topics: Student LearningThe Self-Regulated Online Learning Questionnaire (SOL-Q) is a self-report survey that measures students’ self-regulated learning behaviors in online learning environments. It assesses strategies related to planning, monitoring, effort regulation, and seeking help during online learning.Self-Regulated Strategies for School Writing Tasks (SRSSWT)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student LearningThe Self-Regulated Strategies for School Writing Tasks (SRSSWT) measures the use of self-regulation strategies in school writing tasks. Subscore(s): There are three summary scale scores: Environmental, Behavioral, Personal processes, There are twelve subscores: Environmental structuring, Help…Self-Regulation Questionnaire - Learning
Expert NotesStrengths:Validated with college students in medical and organic chemistry contexts; useful for examining how instructional environments relate to students' autonomous versus controlled motivation for learning. Adapted for online learning with college students (α = .87); a Peruvian university study also supported a 2-factor structure (autonomous and controlled regulation).
Cautions:Validation was conducted with students enrolled in an introductory organic chemistry course at a single, small university, which may limit generalizability to other courses, disciplines, and institutional contexts.
Topics: Student LearningTags: College readinessThe Self-Regulation Questionnaire–Learning (SRQ-Learning) is a self-report survey that measures students’ reasons for engaging in learning activities. It is based on self-determination theory and distinguishes more autonomous forms of motivation from more controlled forms of motivation. The measure…Self-Regulation Questionnaire
Expert NotesStrengths:Strong reliability; validated with adults for assessing general self-regulation across everyday behaviors. Useful for examining relationships between self-regulation and behavioral or health-related outcomes.
Cautions:Limited validation with K–12 students; measures general self-regulation, not academic self-regulation or academic achievement.
Topics: Student LearningTags: College readinessThe Self-Regulation Questionnaire (SRQ) is a 63-item self-report survey that measures general self-regulation, or a person’s ability to plan, carry out, monitor, and adjust behavior to achieve goals. The questionnaire was developed around a seven-step model of self-regulation, including receiving…Self-Regulation Questionnaire - Academic
Expert NotesStrengths:Strong reliability; validated with U.S. school-age students to assess different types of academic motivation and self-regulation. Useful for examining how students’ motivation relates to effort, persistence, and engagement in schoolwork. Portuguese and Dutch adaptations exist.
Cautions:Limited validation with U.S. college students and adult learners.
Topics: Student LearningTags: College readinessThe Self-Regulation Questionnaire–Academic (SRQ-A) is a self-report survey that measures students’ reasons for engaging in academic activities. It focuses on different forms of motivation, ranging from external reasons, such as rewards or avoiding consequences, to more internal reasons, such as…Self-Regulation Strategy Inventory-Self Report (SRSI-SR)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Self-Regulation Strategy Inventory-Self Report (SRSI-SR) was developed to assess students' use of self-regulation strategies. Subscore(s): There are three subscores: Seeking and learning information, Maladaptive regulatory behaviors, Managing environment/behavior Note: The overview…Self-regulatory Failures Behaviors Scale
Expert NotesStrengths:Validated with U.S. college students to measure everyday self-regulation failures. Used to examine whether self-regulation relates to willpower beliefs and college GPA.
Cautions:Limited validation beyond U.S. college students; includes behaviors beyond academic self-regulation, such as eating, spending, and emotion control.
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Motivation, Student engagementThe Self-Regulatory Failures Behaviors Scale is a self-report measure that assesses behaviors associated with difficulty regulating thoughts, feelings, or actions in everyday life. It focuses on self-regulation failures, such as difficulty maintaining intended behaviors or following through on…Sense of Belonging (Strayhorn)
Expert NotesStrengths:Captures multidimensional feelings of acceptance, mattering, and connection. Widely used in higher education equity and persistence research. Sensitive to institutional climate and peer/faculty relationships.
Cautions:This is not a standardized instrument with fixed psychometrics; it’s closer to a theory-driven item bank or construct operationalization.
Tags: Belonging, College readinessA family of items grounded in Strayhorn's theoretical model laid out in his 2012 book College Students' Sense of Belonging. This is a foundational conceptual model from which researchers often draw on or adapt specific item sets depending on what is being studied.Sense of Classroom as a Community
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingMeasures: Students’ feelings of caring/supportiveness and autonomy and influence in their classroom and school. Self‐report measure of students’ sense of the classroom as a community (Battistich et. al. 1997). The initial measure included items representing two elements of community: (a) students’…Sense of Social and Academic Fit
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingStudies show that people of color (Steele & Aronson, 1995), first-generation college students (Stephens, Hamedani, & Destin, 2014), and women (Inzlicht & Ben-Zeev, 2000) may struggle in school (or, in the case of women, in science, technology, engineering, and math classes) because they feel they…Shift and Persist
Expert NotesStrengths:Brief items capturing adaptive responses to stress across academic contexts. Predictive validity for resilience-related health and academic outcomes in prior studies
Cautions:Original validation focused more on health than academic populations. May oversimplify complex, context-dependent coping processes.
Tags: College readinessThe Shift-and-Persist instrument was developed by Edith Chen to operationalize adaptive coping strategies among individuals facing adversity. The questionnaire consists of two subscales—shift (cognitive reappraisal and secondary control coping) and persist (purpose in life, optimism, and future…Short Inventory of Learning Patterns
Expert NotesStrengths:Validated with Belgian higher-education students; strong evidence for measuring and comparing students’ learning strategies and patterns over time. Used to examine relationships between learning patterns, motivation, teaching, and academic achievement.
Cautions:Limited validation with K–12 students and U.S. students; most evidence comes from higher education and Belgian or European contexts.
Topics: Student LearningTags: College readinessThe Short Inventory of Learning Patterns (SILP) is a self-report questionnaire that measures students’ approaches to learning and studying. It assesses different learning patterns, including how students process information, regulate their learning, and work with others.Shyness Mindset Scale (SMS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Shyness Mindset Scale (Valentiner et al., 2011) is an open-source 4-item measure of perceptions about social interaction and competence as well as specific beliefs regarding shyness in social settings. This measure was developed in the context of a study that applied mindset theory to the…Situational Test of Emotion Management
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Situational Test of Emotion Management is an open-source, performance-based multiple choice test that measures how well one is able to manage their emotions. It was developed in combination with the Situational Test of Emotional Understanding. Both long and short forms are available, as well as…Six Seconds Youth Version (SEI-YV)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe SEI-YV assesses emotional intelligence and capabilities of youth. The results are intended to help teachers or youth understand their strengths and competencies, both individually and in a group setting. The SEI-YV provides snapshots of five areas: good health, relationship quality, life…SNAP- Short Response items; Short Performance Assessments
Expert NotesStrengths:NGSS-aligned assessments that use performance-based, phenomenon-driven tasks that require students to apply knowledge and practices in realistic contexts, which helps capture deeper understanding and supports meaningful implementation of the standards.
Cautions:Performance-based tasks can be time-intensive to administer and score, especially since they often involve open-ended responses that require rubric-based evaluation rather than quick, objective grading.
Topics: Student LearningThe Stanford NGSS Assessment Project (SNAP)/SCALE Science assessments are a coordinated system of three types of science assessments designed to measure students’ three-dimensional learning aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). These assessments are developed across domains…Social Academic and Emotional Behavior Risk Screener
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe SAEBRS (Social, Academic, and Emotional Behavior Risk Screener) is a brief, norm-referenced tool for screening all students to identify those who are at risk for social-emotional behavior (SEB) problems. SAEBRS is one of the only SEB universal screening tools built to assess both the absence of…Social and Emotional Type Inventory (SETI)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingFly Five’s digital platform includes a signature suite of assessments intended to build teacher awareness of their own social and emotional type, empower teacher decision-making, and help teachers identify their classroom SEL type at the end of the year after teaching the curriculum. The Social and…Social Competence and Behavior Evaluation (SCBE-30)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Social Competence and Behavioral Evaluation - 30 (SCBE-30) is a short version of an 80 item Likert measure for parents and teachers to assess social-emotional competence, internalizing behaviors, and externalizing behaviors in preschool children. It was formerly sold by WPS Publishing but no…Social-Emotional and Character Development Scale (SECDS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Social-Emotional and Character Development Scale (SECDS) measures social-emotional skills and character traits including prosocial behavior, honesty, and self-control for elementary school children. Subscore(s): There are six subscores: (1) Prosocial behavior (2) Honesty (3) Self-development (4…Social Emotional Health Survey-Secondary (SEHS-S)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Social Emotional Survey-Secondary (SEHS-S) is a 36-item self-report measure of students‘ social and emotional strengths. The 12 subscales (each consisting of three items) are associated with four domains of positive social-emotional health: belief in self, belief in others, emotional competence…Social Emotional Learning Screening Assessment (SELA)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe SELA's content and internal structure were based on the CASEL five model and the existing SSIS Performance Screening Guide. 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…Social Identities and Attitudes Scale (SIAS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Social Identities and Attitudes Scale (SIAS) measures susceptibility to stereotype threat in mathematics for both gender and ethnicity. Subscore(s): Stereotype threat susceptibility; Math identification; Math self-concept; Gender identification; Gender stigma consciousness; Negative affect…Social Networks and Friendship Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Social Networks and Friendship Survey asks participants to indicate their friends in the classroom. From this list, children are asked to identify the top 3 friends by marking them with a star. The survey also asks children to indicate "rejects" or children with whom they don‘t like to hang out.Social Perspective Taking
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingSocial Perspective Taking (SPT) is measured through three sub-scales which are the SPT Propensity scale, the SPT Confidence scale, and the SPT Importance scale (24 items total). In the initial study, a performance task to assess social perspective taking ability and an interview to uncover…Social Perspective Taking
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingSocial Perspective Taking (SPT) is measured through three sub-scales which are the SPT Propensity scale, the SPT Confidence scale, and the SPT Importance scale (24 items total). In the initial study, a performance task to assess social perspective taking ability and an interview to uncover…Social Problem Solving Inventory Revised (SPSI-R)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Social Problem Solving Inventory-Revised (SPSI-R) is published and sold by MHS Assesments (it is also distributed by Pearson). It contains 5 scales to measure different dimensions of social problem solving: Positive Problem Orientation, Negative Problem Orientation, Rational Problem Solving,…Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingUsed by: School, after‐school, social services, mental health professionals. Versions: Teacher, parent and student versions of rating scale available (Student self‐report available for 8‐18). Rating procedure: Raters should be familiar with the SSIS and the rating forms. Teachers need to establish…Social Skills Improvement System, Social-Emotional Learning Edition (SSIS SEL)
Expert NotesStrengths:Easy to administer, can be used for children ages 3-18, can be completed by teachers or parents.
Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Social Skills Improvement System-Social Emotional Learning Edition (SSIS SEL) is sold through Pearson and measures a variety of social and emotional competencies using both norm and criterion referencing. There are both digital and paper versions which can be completed by students, parents, or…Social Skills Rating System (SSRS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe assessment tool, developed by Gresham & Eliot (1990), is designed to help professionals screen and classify children with potential social behavior issues and guide the creation of appropriate interventions. It includes scales for Social Skills (Cooperation, Assertion, Responsibility, Empathy,…