Student Academic Support Scale (SASS)

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The Student Academic Support Scale (SASS) is a method of assessing the frequency, importance, and mode of communicating academic support among college students. The SASS is a 15-item scale that uses a 5-point Likert scale for each item. The link provided includes the SASS as well as its documentation. Authors provide instrument validity and/or reliability information.

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Student Leadership Practices Inventory (Student LPI)

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The Student Leadership Practices Inventory (Student LPI) offers students a 360º method for accurately assessing their leadership behavior based on the 'Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership.' The self-assessment consists of 30 items, each measuring frequency of specific leadership behaviors on a 5-point Likert scale. This self-assessment can be completed either online or in print. The observer assessment is also a 30-item battery which collects valuable 360º feedback from teachers, coaches, student advisors, teammates, fellow club members, coworkers, or others who have direct experience in

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Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI)

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The Intrinsic Motivation Inventory (IMI) is a multidimensional measurement device intended to assess participants' subjective experience related to a target activity in laboratory experiments. It has been used in several experiments related to intrinsic motivation and self-regulation (e.g., Ryan, 1982; Ryan, Mims & Koestner, 1983; Plant & Ryan, 1985; Ryan, Connell, & Plant, 1990; Ryan, Koestner & Deci, 1991; Deci, Eghrari, Patrick, & Leone, 1994). The instrument assesses participants' interest/enjoyment, perceived competence, effort, value/usefulness, felt pressure and tension, and perceived

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21st Century Skills Assessment

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Learning.com's 21st Century Skills Assessment provides deeper insight into students' grasp of critical 21st century skills. The 21st Century Skills Assessment uses a psychometrically validated blend of interactive, performance-based questions that allow students to authentically perform complex tasks in simulated applications, and multiple choice, knowledge-based questions. The assessment helps to learn more about students' performance in all 24 standards in the six strands of the ISTE Standards-S: creativity, innovation, information fluency, critical thinking, decision making and digital

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Science Motivation Questionnaire II (SMQ-II)

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The Science Motivation Questionnaire II (SMQ-II) contains 25 items regarding students' motivation to learn science in college courses. Students respond on a 5-point rating scale of temporal frequency ranging from (0) never to (4) always. The SMQ-II contains five montivation components: intrinsic motivation, self-determination, self-efficacy, career motivation, and grade motivation. Each component is measured with 5 separate items. Access to the instrument as well as instrument documentation can be found under the relevant website(s) heading. Separate questionnaires to measure students'

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Computer Attitude Questionnaire (CAQ)

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The Computer Attitude Questionnaire is a 65-item Likert instrument for measuring middle school students' attitudes on all Young Children's Computer Inventory subscales plus computer anxiety. The 4-point Likert scale version is recommended for grades 4-8; the 5-point Likert scale version is recommended for high school students. This questionnaire is part of a series of six instruments developed to assess youth attititudes towards information technology. The link includes links to the instrument and links to two technical reports about the CAQ as well as documentation of reliability testing and

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Place-Based Education and Geographic Information Systems: Enhancing the Spatial Awareness of Middle School Students in Maine

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Spatial literacy is a new frontier in K-12 education. This article describes a place-based introductory GIS/GPS middle school curriculum unit in which students used measuring tools, GPS units, and My World GIS software to collect physical and spatial data of trees to create a schoolyard tree inventory. Maine students completed "memory maps" of their schoolyards as a pre/post exercise assessment. A statistically significant increase in students' spatial awareness was documented. A technology-based curriculum can significantly increase students' spatial awareness especially in a place and

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