Strengthening School Connectedness to Increase Student Success
Category: Student Well-Being
Instrument Overview
The complete version of APERS must be completed by certified raters external to schools. The assessment includes a review of student records, interviews with school staff and parents, observations, and the completion of an electronic scoring tool. A shorter APERS self-assessment companion tool can be completed by teachers and used in combination with the full APERS evaluation by a certified rater.
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 information about the instrument). This information is presented for educational and informational purposes only. If you have any questions about the content or its permitted uses, please contact annenberg@brown.edu.
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
6th Grade,
7th Grade,
8th Grade,
9th Grade,
10th Grade,
11th Grade,
12th Grade,
Post secondary
Keywords
Student Well-Being ; Social-Emotional Competence ; Social Awareness ; Empathy ; Affective Empathy ; Cognitive Empathy
Languages
English,
Spanish,
Chinese,
Italian,
French,
German,
Portuguese
Respondent
Student
Administration Information
Length
40 items
Administration
Paper
Access and Use
Contact
Corresponding Author: Darrick Jolliffe
Professor, Head of School of Law & Criminology, University of Greenwich
BSc, MPhil, PhD
Open Access
No
Setting
Classroom,
College
Psychometrics (additional guidance)
Psychometric References
D‘Ambrosio, F., Olivier, M., Didon, D., & Besche, C. (2009). The basic empathy scale: A French validation of a measure of empathy in youth. Personality and Individual Differences, 46(2), 160-165. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2008.09.020
Geng, Y., Xia, D., & Qin, B. (2012). The Basic Empathy Scale: A Chinese validation of a measure of empathy in adolescents. Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 43(4), 499-510. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-011-0278-6
Jolliffe, D., & Farrington, D. P. (2006). Development and validation of the Basic Empathy Scale. Journal of Adolescence, 29(4), 589-611. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2005.08.010
S√°nchez-P√©rez, N., Fuentes, L. J., Jolliffe, D., & Gonz√°lez-Salinas, C. (2014). Assessing children‘s empathy through a Spanish adaptation of the Basic Empathy Scale: parent‘s and child‘s report forms. Frontiers in Psychology, 5, 1438. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01438
