Student Well-Being

The Student Well-Being database was developed in collaboration with the Center on Advancing Measurement and Assessment at the American Institutes for Research (AIR)^®, a nonpartisan, not-for profit organization that conducts behavioral and social science research domestically and internationally and delivers technical assistance in education, health, and the workforce. AIR^® led a team to identify survey scales and assessments measuring various aspects of student well-being.

In this database, student well-being is conceptualized holistically to include student-centered factors, environmental variables, and the interplay between students and their environment.

Educator Practice & Professional Development

67 instruments

Measures of teaching behaviors and instructional strategies related to fostering student well-being.

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Family, Home, Community, or Neighborhood

11 instruments

Measures that characterize students' home life, the broader context of their lives, and the involvement of family in students' education and well-being.

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School / Classroom Climate and Belonging

109 instruments

Measures of the environment within the school and classroom, and students' responses to or interactions with that environment including students' sense of belonging, safety, and engagement with teachers and the school community.

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Student Academic Dispositions and Learning Strategies

94 instruments

Measures that assess students' orientation toward academic work, approaches to learning tasks, and academic motivation.

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Student Cultural Competence and Diversity

27 instruments

Measures that assess students' understanding and appreciation of cultural diversity, identity, and social justice.

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Student Social and Emotional Competencies

198 instruments

Measures of skills and dispositions that enable students to understand and manage emotions, establish positive relationships, and make responsible decisions.

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AIR's efforts were supported by advisement from a panel of experts in the conceptualization and measurement of student well-being. The advisory board played a critical role in refining the conceptual framework for student well-being, establishing criteria for instrument inclusion or exclusion, and organizing the instruments into meaningful categories.

This database offers a wide-ranging resource to support educators, researchers, and policymakers in fostering student well-being through careful attention to measurement and progress monitoring. Please see our accompanying resource on Psychometric Considerations for more information on evaluating evidence for the validity and reliability of a measure's results.

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Child Rating Scale (CRS), Parent-Child Rating Scale (P-CRS), and Teacher Child Rating Scale (T-CRS)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

Assesses problem behaviors (acting‐out, shy/anxious behavior, learning problems), and social competencies (frustration tolerance, peer social skills, assertive social skills, task orientation) in the school context. Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been…

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Student Emotion Regulation Assessment (SERA-P)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

This project centers on developing and validating the Student Emotion Regulation Assessment (SERA), a direct tool for measuring students' use of emotion regulation strategies in common school situations. There are two versions: SERA-P for grades 1-5 which uses age-appropriate, illustrated, and…

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Resiliency Inventory

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

Adapted from the Resilience Inventory (Noam & Goldstein, 1998), a 44‐item measure of adolescence resilience. (Song 2003) Taps various domains of resilience: The Optimism (OP) subscale concerns the respondent’s positive perspective on the world and the future. The Self‐Efficacy (SE) subscale…

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Positive Youth Development Student Questionnaire (PYDSQ)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

The PYDSQ was developed to model pathways of positive youth development and can be used for the planning and development of interventions and youth programs. Subscore(s): (1) Competence (2) Connection (3) Character (4) Confidence (5) Caring Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes…

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NEO Personality Inventory-3

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

This tool provides a detailed assessment of general personality using the five-factor model. 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)…

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Mental Toughness Scale for Adolescents

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

The Mental Toughness Scale for Adolescents, examines the attributes of challenge, commitment, confidence (abilities and interpersonal), and control (life and emotion). Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced from the instrument publisher's or…

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Measuring Mindsets, Essential Skills and Habits (MESH)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

The Measuring MESH surveys assess students' Mindsets, Essential Skills and Habits (MESH). The surveys can be used to inform instruction and programming. Subscore(s): There are four subscores: Self-management, Growth mindset, Self-efficacy, Social awareness Note: The overview provided for…

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Inventory of Metacognitive Self-Regulation

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

The Inventory of Metacognitive Self-Regulation (IMSR) was developed to assess metacognitive awareness and self-regulatory competencies in the context of problem solving. Subscore(s): There are five subscores: Knowledge of cognition, Objectivity, Problem representation, Subtask monitoring, and…

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Hall of Heroes

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

In Hall of Heroes, students enroll in a superhero middle school where they must build their powers and skills to make friends, resist peer pressure, and save the school from supervillain Dr. Klepto. In addition, students improve middle school readiness skills, such as locker combinations and…

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Child and Adolescent Wellness Scale (CAWS)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

The Child and Adolescent Wellness Scale (CAWS) is a self-report instrument that assesses the social and emotional competencies of children and adolescents. It has been used primarily for research purposes. Subscore(s): Adaptability, Conscientiousness, Connectedness, Emotional self-regulation,…

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Attitudes and Behavior Survey

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

The Attitudes and Behaviors Survey gives a snapshot of the current experiences and perspectives of youth in schools, programs, or communities. It emphasizes the strengths and supports they currently have and need, and how those positive indicators protect against risk behaviors. This widely used…

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Adolescent Self-Regulatory Inventory (Parent/Child) (ASRI-P/C)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

The Adolescent Self-Regulatory Inventory (ASRI) questionnaire measures short-term and long-term self regulation and was designed for use by researchers interested in studying self-regulation in adolescents. Subscore(s): Short-term self regulation, Long-term self regulation Note: The overview…

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Adolescent Self-Regulatory Inventory (Adolescent) (ASRI-A)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

The Adolescent Self-Regulatory Inventory (ASRI) questionnaire measures short-term and long-term self regulation and was designed for use by researchers interested in studying self-regulation in adolescents. Subscore(s): Short-term self regulation, Long-term self regulation Note: The overview…

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Adolescent Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (AERQ)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

The Adolescent Emotion Regulation Questionnaire (AERQ) was designed to measure emotional regulation strategies. Subscore(s): Positive emotion regulation strategies, Negative body experiences or strategies, Social connection, Negative cognition strategies Note: The overview provided for this…

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Active and Engaged Citizenship (AEC)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

AEC was proposed as a second-order latent construct that encompasses four first-order latent factors: Civic Duty, Civic Skills, Neighborhood Social Connection, and Civic Participation. Measurement invariance was tested over time (from Grade 8 to Grade 10) and between boys and girls. Note: The…

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ACT Mosaic (formerly Tessera)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

ACT Mosaic™ is a comprehensive assessment system designed to measure students' social-emotional skills and support schools in fostering student success. Previously known as Tessera™, the assessment was developed by ACT based on extensive research in education, psychology, and workforce readiness…

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Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

The IDI examines how one engages cultural difference through reflection of past and current situations and experiences. An individual’s IDI profile report provides a perceived orientation score (how one sees themselves when interacting) and a developmental orientation score (how one actually…

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Social Academic and Emotional Behavior Risk Screener

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

The SAEBRS (Social, Academic, and Emotional Behavior Risk Screener) is a brief, norm-referenced tool for screening all students to identify those who are at risk for social-emotional behavior (SEB) problems. SAEBRS is one of the only SEB universal screening tools built to assess both the absence of…

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Social Emotional Learning Screening Assessment (SELA)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

The SELA's content and internal structure were based on the CASEL five model and the existing SSIS Performance Screening Guide. 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…

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The Pictorial Scale of Perceived Competence and Social Acceptance for Young Children (PSPCSAYC)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

PSPCSAYC 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…

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Washoe County School District Social and Emotional Competency Assessments (WCSD-SECAs)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

The Washoe County School District Social and Emotional Competency Assessments (WCSD-SECAs) are free, open-source instruments that measure the self-reported social and emotional competencies of students in grades 5-12. The WCSD-SECA instruments were developed through a collaboration among WCSD, the…

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Global Empathy Scale

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

The Global Empathy Scale (GES) is a measure of high school aged student's self-reported awareness of political and social rights of others, emotional connectedness to others, as well as one's likelihood to speak up for others. The 11-items within this measure are responded to on a Likert scale. …

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Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) Character Report Card

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning

The KIPP Character Strengths framework combines the knowledge of teachers and character researchers to outline a set of abilities and attitudes critical to leading an engaged, happy, and successful life. It is used by the Knowledge is Power Program (KIPP), a network of 224 college-preparatory,…

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Delaware Bullying Victimization Surveys

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: School climate and culture, Student engagement

The 2016 Delaware School Surveys (DSS) are comprised of five separate scales: Delaware School Climate Scale (DSCS); Delaware Bullying Victimization Scale (DBVS); Delaware Student Engagement Scale (DSES); Delaware Positive, Punitive, and Social Emotional Learning (SEL) Techniques Scale (DTS); and…

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Young Children‘s Perception of School Climate Questionnaire

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: School climate and culture, Early childhood education, Belonging

The Young Children's Perception of School Climate Questionnaire was adapted from Habib, Anson, Cook, Clifford, and Antonio's (1993) School Climate Questionnaire which was originally designed for use in a study of middle school-aged children in Prince George County, Maryland. The resulting…

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School Climate Surveys

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: School climate and culture, Belonging

Excerpted Description: Tennessee has created an infrastructure for measuring school climate through the construction of reliable and validated survey measurement tools that are custom designed with stakeholder input from students, parents and educators in Tennessee. The survey measurement tools…

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UChicago Consortium 5Essentials Survey

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: School climate and culture, Belonging

The 5Essentials Survey from the University of Chicago's Consortium on School Research is an improvement framework and diagnostic survey tool used to assess a school's strengths while highlighting areas and opportunities for improvement across five essential factors for school improvement (Effective…

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Georgia Brief School Climate Inventory (GaBSCI)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: School climate and culture, Belonging

The Georgia Brief School Climate Inventory (GaBSCI) is a 9-item measure of students' perceptions of school climate across three dimensions (safety, teaching and learning, and relationships within the school). Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been…

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Youth Connections Scale (YCS)

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: School climate and culture

The Youth Connections Scale (YCS), developed by the Center for Advanced Studies in Child Welfare at the University of Minnesota in partnership with Anu Family Services, was created to help child welfare agencies and organizations work more effectively alongside youth to create and sustain a safety…

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Social Perspective Taking

Topics: Student Well-Being

Tags: Social and emotional learning, Higher education

Social Perspective Taking (SPT) is measured through three sub-scales which are the SPT Propensity scale, the SPT Confidence scale, and the SPT Importance scale (24 items total). In the initial study, a performance task to assess social perspective taking ability and an interview to uncover…

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