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The Computational Thinking Test (CT-test)
Expert NotesStrengths:Systematically assesses a wide range of core computational thinking concepts (e.g., sequences, loops, conditionals, and functions) across progressively increasing difficulty levels, providing a comprehensive measure of students’ CT development.
Cautions:Uses multiple-choice, decontextualized tasks (e.g., maze or canvas problems), which may not fully capture how students apply computational thinking in authentic, open-ended coding or robotics activities.
Topics: Student LearningThe Computational Thinking Test (CT-test) is a multiple-choice assessment designed to measure students’ computational thinking skills across a range of core programming concepts in elementary and secondary educational contexts.The test evaluates several dimensions of computational thinking,…The Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) Parent Education Data Collection System
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Families and CommunitiesTags: ParentingThe Cornell Cooperative Extension Parent Education Data Collection System is a tool used for Cornell Cooperative Extension parenting education classes. Items on the pre- and post- surveys are taken from national surveys such as the Three Cities Study and the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth to…The Culturally Affirming Climate Survey (CACS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe purpose of the CACS is to extract the racialized experiences of youth of color in school to highlight opportunities to mitigate issues of racial bias and discrimination. In previous work the CACS has been used to identify strategies to improve student well-being, belonging, and engagement. Six…The Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe DECA is a newly developed standardized, norm‐referenced measure of resilience, completed by parents and teachers in a collaborative and supportive partnership. Subscales include initiative, attachment, self‐control, and behavioral concerns.The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (ERQ)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Higher educationThe ERQ (Gross & John, 2003) comprises 10 items assessing the ER strategies of CR (6 items) and ES (4 items). Items are rated on a 7-point Likert-type response scale. Higher scores on each scale indicate greater use of the corresponding ER strategy. Subscore(s): Cognitive Reappraisal, Expressive…The Emotion Regulation Questionnaire for Children and Adolescents (ERQ-CA)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingA revised version of the ERQ, the ERQ-CA is meant to be used in non-adult samples. Revision of the ERQ visible in the ERQ-CA include simplification of item wording and a switch from a 7-point Likert scale to a 5-point Likert scale. Subscore(s): Cognitive Reappraisal, Expressive Suppression,…The Flourishing Children Project (FCP)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Flourishing Children Project, funded by the John Templeton Foundation, has constructed 20 scales based on a nationally representative sample to measure different dimensions of personal flourishing. The scales are open access, and many offer versions for both adolescents (ages 12-18) and parents…The Hemingway Measure of Adolescent Connectedness
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Learning environmentsThe full 78-item Hemingway includes 15 ecological subscales measuring three domains of adolescent connectedness - connectedness to self, connectedness to others, and connectedness to society.The Hemingway Measure of Late Adolescent Connectedness
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Higher educationThe full 78-item Hemingway includes 15 ecological subscales measuring three domains of adolescent connectedness - connectedness to self, connectedness to others, and connectedness to society.The Home Observation Measurement of the Environment-Short Form (HOME-SF)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Families and CommunitiesTags: ParentingThe Home Observation Measurement of the Environment-Short Form (HOME-SF) is an observation instrument commonly used to measure the home environment of children ages birth to 15 years old. The HOME-SF is an abridged version of the HOME inventory, which is twice the length, and contains mother…The Mathematics Classroom Connectedness Scale (MCCS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Quick and easy to administer
Cautions:Validated with students in Grades 5-9
Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Mathematics Classroom Connectedness Scale (MCCS) is a student survey that measures how connected and supported students feel in their math classroom. It focuses on middle-grade learners. The scale asks students about their relationships with their math teacher, the sense of community in the…The Momentary Emotion Assessment Tool
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Momentary Emotion Assessment Tool is designed to track students' emotions and their responses in real time at school. This tool helps researchers and educators understand momentary emotions, how they change, and assess the impact of interventions aimed at improving students' school experiences…The Motivation and Engagement Scale-University/College (MES-UC)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingCreated along the Motivation and Engagement Wheel, the Motivation and Engagement Scale consists of eleven motivation and engagement subscales congruent with the eleven first-order factors in the Wheel (i.e., self-efficacy, valuing, mastery orientation, planning, task management, persistence,…The Motivation and Engagement Scale Junior (MES-J)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingCreated along the Motivation and Engagement Wheel, the Motivation and Engagement Scale consists of eleven motivation and engagement subscales congruent with the eleven first-order factors in the Wheel (i.e., self-efficacy, valuing, mastery orientation, planning, task management, persistence,…The Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance for Young Children (PSPCSAYC)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingPSPCSAYC is a pictorial scale of perceived competence and social acceptance for young children, tapping 4 domains with 6 items each: cognitive competence, physical competence, peer acceptance, and maternal acceptance. Items differ somewhat for some scales across the two age levels. For the PSPCSAYC…The Problem Solving Inventory (PSI)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe PSI assesses an individual's awareness and evaluation of his or her problem-solving abilities or style, thus provides a global of that individual as a problem solver.The PSI is a self-reported measure . The PSI consists of 35 six-point Likert items (with 3 filler questions), which constitute 3…The Scale for Teachers' Assessment of Routines Engagement (STARE)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Scale for Teachers‘ Assessment of Routines Engagement (STARE) documents teachers‘ perspectives of a child‘s engagement in classroom activities. Suitable for both typically developing children and children with disabilities, STARE focuses on how much time the child was engaged with adults, peers…The School Success Profile (SSP)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe SSP is an online survey featuring 195 multiple-choice questions. These questions explore students' perceptions of their social surroundings—neighborhoods, schools, friends, and families—as well as their own physical and psychological well-being and academic performance (individual adaptation)…The School-Wide Cultural Competence Observation Checklist
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentTags: Instructional practicesThis tool can be used to conduct culture audits as a means of assessing school-wide cultural competence, as well as how school's programs, policies, and practices reflect the perspectives and experiences of diverse groups. Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may…The Science Management Observation Protocol (SMOP)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentThe Science Management Observation Protocol (SMOP) is used to conduct structured observations of science classroom practice. SMOP identifies specific teacher behaviors and classroom characteristics which influence an inquiry-based classroom. Teachers and administrators can use the protocol to…The Self-Construal Scale
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Self-Construal scale is a 30 items scale used to measure how people view themselves in relation to others. 2 subscales; interdependent self-construal and independent self-construal, comprise this scale. Each item is answered using a 7-point rating scale (1=strongly disagree, 4=neither agree or…The Sense of Control Scale
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Sense of Control Scale 14 has 12 items that measure a person‘s sense of mastery over their outcomes (e.g., "Whether or not I am able to get what I want is in my own hands‚) and perceptions of constraints on their behavior (e.g., "Other people determine most of what I can and cannot do). …The Social Connectedness Scale-Revised
Expert NotesStrengths:Sensitive to differences in perceived social integration and isolation.
Cautions:Limited ability to capture structural or environmental influences on connection. May overlap with related constructs like loneliness and belongingness.
The Social Connectedness Scale includes 8 items and measures students' sense of connectedness, affiliation, and companionship to provide a broad picture of belongingness. The authors have an accompanying Social Assurance scale (which measures students' sense of companionship and affiliation) often…The Social-Emotional Assets and Resilience Scales (SEARS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Social-Emotional Assets and Resilience Scales (SEARS) were developed at the University of Oregon and are sold by Psychological Assessment Resources (PAR). They measure responsibility, self regulation, social competence, and empathy, and contain both long and short forms for K-12 students,…The Social Problem Solving Inventory Revised
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Social Problem-Solving Inventory-Revised (SPSI-R; D’Zurilla et al., 2002) is a 52-item, Likert-type inventory consisting of five major scales that measure the five different dimensions in the D’Zurilla et al. social problem-solving model. These scales are the Positive Problem Orientation (PPO)…The Social Skills Q-Sort (SSQ)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Social Skills Q-Sort (SSQ) is an instrument quantifying a child‘s comprehensive social skills profile using 100 descriptive cards. Observers sort the SSQ cards into 9 piles (from least characteristic in pile 1 to most characteristic in pile 9). Note: The overview provided for this instrument…The Youth Outcome Toolkit
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Building upon a five-year evaluation of the After-School Initiative funded by The Colorado Trust, and evaluations of other youth-serving programs, the National Research Center, Inc created the Youth Outcome Toolkit as a comprehensive evaluation resource for programs serving youth. The Toolkit…ThinkReady
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:ThinkReady (formerly C-PAS, CPAS) is an innovative assessment designed to track the development of Key Cognitive Strategies (KCS), which are the thinking skills necessary for college and career readiness and success. Through extensive research over more than a decade, Dr. David T. Conley, founder…Through Course Task (TCT)
Expert NotesStrengths:This NGSS assessment inlcudes detailed scoring guidance and annotated student work samples, which help teachers interpret student responses more consistently and understand what different levels of performance look like in practice.
Cautions:Scoring TCTs can be subjective and requires calibration among teachers, since evaluating open-ended student responses depends on interpretation of rubrics rather than strictly objective scoring.
Topics: Student LearningThrough Course Tasks (TCTs) are a set of performance-based science assessment tasks designed to measure students’ three-dimensional science learning within classroom instruction. They are implemented across grade levels, including elementary, as part of a broader, balanced assessment system that…Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe Tiered Fidelity Inventory (TFI) is an instrument measuring to what extent school personnel use (or need) school-wide positive behavioral interventions and supports (SWPBIS). The three tiers in TFI are 1) universal SWPBIS features, 2) targeted SWPBIS features, and 3) intensive SWPBIS features…