The Instruments

The assessments in the EDUCATE INSIGHT K-12 series are the instruments of choice developmental assessment of individual students because they enable teachers and parents to identify areas of strength and areas for additional growth. Group reports by grade level, school site, or district provide data useful for curriculum development and project evaluation purposes. These assessments are used by teachers, program development offices, private and public schools and school districts, governmental agencies, home school organizations, K-12 education consultants, and researchers.

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The Education Vital Signs assessment is a statistically validated, normed assessment of school climate that quickly identifies areas both supporting and interfering with school success.

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The Efficacious Self-Presentation Scale (ESS) is a 36 item questionnaire that measures 6 different dimensions: Social self-confidence; Self-image regulation; Bodily self-confidence; Social sensitivity; Social openness; and Social desirability. All responses are expressed on a 5-point Likert-type scale ranging from 1 (strongly disagree) to 5 (strongly agree). Subscore(s): Self Confidence, Self Image Regulation, Social Sensitivity, Social Openness, Social Desirability

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The ESBA is a 12-item teacher report scale designed to measure positive social skills that can be used for screening in elementary classrooms.

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Elevate Survey measures nine learning conditions that influence students' motivation and also their ability to engage and learn. Subscore(s): Affirming identities, classroom community, feedback for growth, meaningful work, student voice, teacher caring, learning goals, supportive teaching, well-organized class

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The Emotion Expression Scale for Children (EESC) measures emotional awareness and the expression of negative emotions. Subscore(s): There are two subscores: Poor awareness, Expressive reluctance

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The 24‐item Emotion Regulation Checklist taps both prevalent emotional expressiveness and the product aspect of emotion regulation: that is, it targets processes central to emotionality and regulation, including affect lability, intensity, valence, flexibility, and contextual appropriateness of expressiveness (Shields & Cicchetti, 1997; Shields et al., 2001). The Lability/Negativity subscale is comprised of items representing a tack of flexibility, mood lability, and dysregulated negative affect; sample items include "Exhibits wide mood swings," and "Is prone to angry outbursts?' The Emotion Regulation subscale includes items describing situationally appropriate affective displays, empathy, and emotional self‐awareness; sample items include "Is empathic toward others," and "Can say when s/he is feeling sad, angry or mad, fearful or afraid."

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ERICA is a 16 item scale to assess emotion regulation in middle childhood and adolescence. The ERICA was developed in 2009 and yields 3 factors, Emotional Control, Emotional Self-awareness, and Situational Responsiveness.  Subscore(s): Emotional Regulation

The Emotional Availability Scales (EA Scales) measures the quality of parent-child or adult-child interactions. Emotional availability refers to “the adult’s ‘receptive presence’ to the child’s emotional signals” (Biringen and Easterbrooks, 2012). Created by Dr. Zeynep Biringen, Ph.D., in 1987, the instrument is currently in its 4th edition. The EA Scales consist of both adult and child subscales and can be completed in approximately 20 minutes.

The Engagement versus Disaffection with Learning (EVDL-24) is a psychological assessment tool designed to measure students’ emotional and behavioral engagement with learning activities as well as their disaffection or lack of engagement. Engagement refers to the level of enthusiasm, interest, and effort students put into their learning, while disaffection represents feelings of boredom, frustration, and withdrawal from learning tasks.

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The EPOCH Measure of Adolescent Well-Being assesses 5 positive psychological characteristics (Engagement, Perseverance, Optimism, Connectedness, and Happiness) that might foster well-being, physical health, and other positive outcomes in adulthood.

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The Equity and Access Rubrics for Mathematics Instruction (EAR-MI) are classroom observation rubrics designed to help researchers and educators examine how well math instruction supports equitable learning opportunities. The tool focuses on practices that research has linked to “successful” learning environments—particularly those that serve students who have been historically marginalized in mathematics.

The Equity and Access Rubrics for Mathematics Instruction is a set of classroom observation rubrics that were designed to attend to aspects of high-quality mathematics instruction while focusing on specific practices that reflect the most current research on how to support more equitable participation and student access in inquiry-oriented learning environments.

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The Ethnic Identity Scale assesses three distinct components of ethnic-racial identity: (a) exploration, or the degree to which individuals have explored their ethnicity; (b) resolution, or the degree to which they have resolved what their ethnic identity means to them; and (c) affirmation, or the affect (positive or negative) that they associate with their ethnic-group membership (Umaña-Taylor, Yazedjian, & Bámaca-Gómez, 2004). Exploration and resolution capture aspects of the developmental process of ethnic-racial identity, and affirmation captures ethnic-racial identity content. Examination of exploration and resolution as individual scales enables scholars to categorize individuals into ethnic-racial identity statuses of diffuse, foreclosed, moratorium, and achieved (for detailed instructions of this approach see Umaña-Taylor, Yazedjian, & Bámaca-Gómez, 2004).

An evaluation rubric that identifies exemplary practice indicators for sustaining partnerships with funders and supporters.

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The EVC scale was developed based on the Expectancy-Value model to understand motivational factors. This brief 10-item scale is designed to be a rapid measure reflecting student's perceptions of the extent they think they can be successful and the extent that they think a task is worthwhile. This scale allows differentiation between three separate motivational factors (expectancy, value, and cost). Additional research on the cost factor has been done, and a cost scale was developed to contribute to research on the Expectancy-Value Model. There are four subscales in the cost scale: task effort cost, outside effort cost, loss of valued alternatives cost, and emotional cost. Subscore(s): Motivation

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The Family Empowerment Scale (FES) measures empowerment in families whose children have emotional disabilities. The 34 items of the FES questionnaire focus on the level of empowerment (with respect to the family, service system, and larger community and political environment) and the way empowerment is expressed (attitudes, knowledge, and behaviors).

Gathers information in 4 domains: 1. The welcoming environment of the school toward families 2. The degree to which the school supports learning at home 3. Effective two-way communication between home and school 4. Important issues in family engagement (i.e. policy, governance, parental efficacy)

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In this measure, FAS is used to assess children’s: Perceptions of Their Competence in Math and Literacy ‐‐ These items reflect the way a child feels about their abilities with numbers, letters, and reading (i.e., “how good they are with”, “how much they know about”, and “how good they are at learning something new”). Feelings About Their Teachers ‐‐ These items reflect how a child perceives their teacher to feel about them and how they feel about their teacher (i.e., doesn’t like at all to likes a lot). General Attitudes about School ‐‐ These items reflect (i.e., “how they feel about going to school,” “how fun the things they do in school are,” “how they feel when they are in school.”

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The Florida Civics End-of-Course (EOC) Assessment is required for all Florida public school students taking the required civics course in the middle grades, mostly commonly in Grade 7. The test assesses students' understanding of the origins and purposes of the U.S. political system and government, responsibilitiies of the U.S. citizen, functions and organization of the government, and contemporary issues in world affairs.

The Florida KEY measures learners' self-concept. It can be used by teachers to understand student attitudes about school success. Subscore(s): There are four subscores: Relating, Asserting, Coping, Investing

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Framework for Teaching is a classroom observation instrument that can be used for measuring and evaluating the instructional quality of all teachers (from pre-service to experienced) across K-12. The measure can be flexibly used by classroom teachers for professional learning, school leaders for evaluation, researchers for measurement, and system leaders as a common language for organizing the profession.

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The Free Time Motivation Scale for Adolescents (FTMSA) can be used to understand the choices adolescents make about how they spend their free time. Subscore(s): There are five subscores: Amotivation, External, Introjected, Identified, Intrinsic motivation

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The Frequency of Mathematics Instructional Practices Survey is a 14-item survey of self-reported instructional practices. The survey can be used by teachers, administrators, teacher educators, policymakers and researchers in order to assess the extent to which teachers' practices are social-constructivist or transmission-based.

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The Friendship and Social Skills Test (FASST) is a parent-report measure of child peer relationships and social skills that can assist teachers and clinicians in referring children to social skills interventions Subscore(s): There are five subscores: Friendship activities, Peer victimization, Expressed concern, Negative social behaviors, Positive social skills

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The Friendship Quality Questionnaire (FQQ) is a 40-item self report measure of the quality of a child's best friendship. The FQQ is comprised of 6 subscales; validation and caring, conflict resolution, conflict and betrayal, help and guidance, companionship and recreation, and intimate exchange. Subscore(s): Validation and caring, Conflict resolution, Conflict and betrayal, Help and guidance, Companionship and recreation, Intimate exchange

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The Friendship Qualities Scale is a theoretically grounded, multidimensional measurement instrument to assess the quality of children's and early adolescents' relationships with their best friends according to five conceptually meaningful aspects of the friendship relation. These dimensions are companionship, conflict, help/aid, security and closeness. A confirmatory factor analysis, used to evaluate the factor structure of this instrument, demonstrated that these scales represented distinct, but related, domains of friendship. Assessments of reliability indicated the high level of internal consistency within each dimension. The validity of the scale was indicated by the observation of higher ratings for (a) mutual friends than for non-mutual friends, and (b) for stable friends than for non-stable friends. These findings are discussed according to the theoretical and practical issues related to the measurement of friendship quality.

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The Gallup Student Poll is a web-based survey of engagement, hope, belonging, and wellbeing in students ranging from grade 5 through grade 12. The Gallup Student Poll is available to schools and districts in the United States and Canada.  Subscore(s): Belonging, Engagement, Hope

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GMRT-4 measures overall reading achievement spanning each important stage along the reading continuum—from oral language to mature reading comprehension. The underlying foundation of GMRT is that it is useful for teachers and schools to know the general level of reading achievement of individual students throughout their entire school careers.

The Geometry Assessments for Secondary Teachers (GAST) Classroom Observation Tool classifies the teaching moves and instructional tasks of teachers according to cognitive demand. It is designed for use specifically within math lessons focused on similarity, congruence, surface area, and volume. It can be used by teacher educators and researchers to identify the quality of math instruction within this domain.

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