Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
PALS is used to investigate the relationship between a student's learning environment and their affect, motivation, and behavior. It consists of both a student scale and a teacher scale. The student scale investigates personal achievement goal orientations, perceptions of teacher goals, perceptions of the goal structures in the classroom, achievement related beliefs, and perceptions of parents and home life. The teacher scale investigates perceptions of goal structures in the school, goal-related approaches to instruction, and personal teaching efficacy. Subscore(s): Learning environments, Achievement beliefs
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Organization
Topic
Student Well-Being Category
American Institutes for Research® partnered with the Annenberg Institute at Brown University to collect instruments related to student well-being.
Content
Grades
Kindergarten,
1st Grade,
2nd Grade,
3rd Grade,
4th Grade,
5th Grade,
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Self Management ; Social Awareness ; Learning environments ; Achievement beliefs
Languages
English
Respondent
Student,
Teacher
Administration Information
Length
40 minutes, 94 items
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Contact
Eric Anderman
anderman.1@osu.edu (614) 292-9860
Open Access
Yes
Setting
Undefined
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
Hackel, T. S., Jones, M. H., Carbonneau, K. J., & Mueller, C. E. (2016). Re-examining achievement goal instrumentation: Convergent validity of AGQ and PALS. Contemporary Educational Psychology, 46, 73-80. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cedpsych.2016.04.005
Ross, M. E., Shannon, D. M., Salisbury-Glennon, J. D., & Guarino, A. (2002). The patterns of adaptive learning survey: A comparison across grade levels. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 62(3), 483-497. https://doi.org/10.1177/00164402062003006
Ross, M. E., Blackburn, M., & Forbes, S. (2005). Reliability generalization of the patterns of adaptive learning survey goal orientation scales. Educational and Psychological Measurement, 65(3), 451-464. https://doi.org/10.1177/0013164404272496
