Efficacious Self-Presentation Scale (ESS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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…Elementary Social Behavior Assessment (ESBA)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe ESBA is a 12-item teacher report scale designed to measure positive social skills that can be used for screening in elementary classrooms. 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…Elementary Teachers' Science Content Knowledge Assessment (Maerten-Rivera et al., 2014)
Expert NotesStrengths:Good for measuring the effectiveness of PD
Includes equated test forms to support longitudinal use and reduce memory effects
Sensitive enough to detect changes in content knowledge across multi-year professional development
Cautions:Primarily assesses content knowledge rather than pedagogical content knowledge
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Science educationThe Elementary Teachers’ Science Content Knowledge Assessment is a paper-based test that measures elementary teachers’ science content knowledge. Developed by Maerten-Rivera and colleagues in 2014, the assessment was designed to evaluate teachers’ understanding of core science concepts and to…Elevate
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Motivation, Learning environmentsElevate 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…Emotion Expression Scale for Children (EESC)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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 Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced from the…Emotion Regulation Checklist
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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…Emotion Regulation Index for Children and Adolescents (ERICA)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingERICA 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 RegulationEmotional Availability Scales
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Families and CommunitiesTags: ParentingThe 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…Energy Concepts Assessment (Herrmann-Abell & DeBoer, 2017)
Expert NotesStrengths:Validated with a large and diverse sample (over 20,000 students across grades 4–12). Carefully aligned to a detailed learning progression with multiple levels of conceptual complexity.
Cautions:Based primarily on multiple-choice items, which may not fully capture students’ deeper reasoning or ability to apply energy concepts in real-world or open-ended contexts.
Topics: Student LearningThis assessment is based on a learning progression framework designed to measure students’ understanding of energy concepts from upper elementary through high school. The instrument evaluates knowledge across four major categories: energy forms and transformations, energy transfer, energy…Energy Literacy Open-Ended Assessment
Expert NotesStrengths:Uses open-ended questions and student-generated explanations and drawings, allowing it to capture nuanced, in-depth insights into students’ conceptual understanding and misconceptions about energy systems.
Cautions:Relies on qualitative interpretation of open-ended responses, which can introduce subjectivity in coding and make results less consistent or comparable across different raters or contexts.
Topics: Student LearningThis energy literacy assessment is an open-ended survey instrument designed to measure elementary students’ understanding of energy sources, energy systems, and the environmental impacts of energy use. Items ask students to identify renewable energy sources, explain which sources should be used…Engagement Versus Disaffection with Learning (EvsL)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Student engagementThe 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…Engineering Design Assessment (McElhaney et al., 2019)
Expert NotesStrengths:Designed using evidence-centered design to align tasks, evidence, and scoring directly with specific NGSS engineering performance expectations
Cautions:Targets complex, multi-dimensional engineering practices, which can make tasks and scoring more challenging to implement consistently without sufficient training and detailed rubrics
Topics: Student LearningThis assessment consists of a set of task-based instruments designed to measure upper elementary students’ proficiency with engineering design concepts aligned to NGSS performance expectations. The assessment includes multiple tasks that target key aspects of engineering design, such as defining…Engineering-Infused Lesson Rubric
Expert NotesStrengths:Can be used by teachers, coaches, and curriculum developers to analyze lessons and materials *before* instruction occurs and identify opportunities to strengthen engineering connections
Cautions:Appropriate for scoring individual lessons but not entire units or curricular materials
Reliable use, especially for research or cross-classroom comparisons, requires a shared understanding of rubric categories and examples.
Focuses on the infusion of engineering into science instruction; you would need a separate instrument to assess the quality of that underlying science instruction
Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Science educationThe Engineering-Infused Lesson Rubric is an instrument that assesses the integration of engineering into science. It contains 12 items divided into three sections (labeled A1-C3): curriculum materials, design-centered teacher practices, and engagement with engineering concepts. The first section…EPOCH Measure of Adolescent Well-Being
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Student engagementThe 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. Note: The overview provided for this instrument…Equity and Access Rubrics (EAR)
Expert NotesStrengths:Identifies observable behaviors that cultivate belonging; Can be used in peer coaching cyles
Cautions:Should not be used for evaluation; Requires multiple observations; Calibration required for research purposes
Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentThe 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”…Equity and Access Rubrics for Mathematics Instruction (EAR-MI)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student LearningThe 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…Ethnic Identity Scale-Brief (EIS-B)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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…Evolution Concepts Assessment (McGowan-Smyth, 2020)
Expert NotesStrengths:This evolution assessment targets multiple core concepts of evolution (e.g., variation, inheritance, adaptation, speciation, extinction, domestication) through structured items and justifications.
Cautions:Relies heavily on multiple-choice items with written justifications, which may not fully capture students’ underlying reasoning.
Topics: Student LearningThis assessment is designed to measure primary school children’s understanding of evolution, specifically for students aged 10–11. The assessment is based on a theoretical framework of six core evolutionary concepts: variation, inheritance, adaptation, domestication, speciation, and extinction…Exemplary Practices in Afterschool Program Development: Rubrics for Tracking Internal Progress
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:An evaluation rubric that identifies exemplary practice indicators for sustaining partnerships with funders and supporters. 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…Expectancy-Value-Cost
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingThe 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…Exploratory Behavior Scale (EBS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Captures the quality of young children’s hands-on exploration (e.g., passive contact vs. active manipulation vs. exploratory variation), providing more nuanced insight into learning-related behavior than simple time-based measures.
Cautions:Relies on observational coding of children’s behavior, which requires trained observers and may introduce subjectivity or variability in scoring across different raters or settings.
Topics: Student LearningThe Exploratory Behavior Scale (EBS) is an observational assessment tool designed to measure young children’s hands-on exploratory behavior in interactive learning environments. The instrument is designed to capture the quality of children’s interaction with materials and to enable comparisons…Family Empowerment Scale (FES)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Families and CommunitiesTags: ParentingThe 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…Family-Friendly School Parent Survey
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingGathers 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)…Feelings About School (FAS)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingIn 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…Florida Civics EOC Assessment
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: Social studies educationThe 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,…Florida KEY of Learner Self-Concept
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student LearningThe 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 Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been…Forces and Motion Concepts Assessment (Chen et al. 2013)
Expert NotesStrengths:Uses a detailed, multi-component rubric (e.g., claim, evidence, relationships, and cohesiveness) to capture the quality of students’ scientific reasoning, allowing for deeper insight into how well students construct and connect ideas.
Cautions:Students' writing proficiency could limit their abililty to demonstrate their knowledge and thinking around discplinary core ideas.
Topics: Student LearningThis assessment consists of 20 selected-response items, each aligned with specific science concepts. These items are organized around six core content areas: force balance, force and speed, friction, force and mass, air resistance, and energy. Each question requires students to apply their…Formative Assessment Bundling Literacy and Elementary Science (FABLES)
Expert NotesStrengths:Includes teacher guides for pre-instruction and post-instruction tasks
Cautions:Formative not summative assessments.
Topics: Student LearningA set of Grade 3 classroom-based formative assessment resources with accompanying professional learning to support teachers in monitoring and enhancing their students' integrated science and literacy learning.Framework for Teaching (FfT)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Teacher and Leader DevelopmentFramework 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…Free Time Motivation Scale for Adolescents (FTMSA)
Expert NotesStrengths:Cautions:Topics: Student Well-BeingTags: MotivationThe 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 Note: The overview provided for…