Skill Assessment Tools
Instrument |
Behavioral Domain |
Assessment Type |
Technical Adequacy |
Efficiency and Feasibility |
Social Skills Improvement System (Gresham & Elliott, 2008) |
Social and Emotional |
Social skills assessment |
Strong: Supported by numerous studies |
Low: Takes 10-25 min to complete for each student |
Academic Competence Evaluation Scales (DiPerna & Elliott, 2000) |
Social and Academic |
Academic enablers assessment |
Moderate-Strong: Supported by several studies |
Low: Takes 10-15 min to complete for each student |
Devereux Student Strengths Assessment (LeBuffe, Shapiro, & Naglieri, 2009) |
Social and Emotional |
Social-emotional competence assessment |
Strong: Supported by numerous studies |
Low: Takes 10 min to complete for each student |
Functional Behavior Assessment Tools
Instrument |
Behavior Domain |
Assessment Type |
Technical Adequacy |
Efficiency and Feasibility |
Systematic direct observation (e.g., ABC recording, Scatterplot) |
Social, Academic, and Emotional |
Descriptive - Direct |
High: Strong history of empirical support |
Low: Requires extensive staff time, effort, and resources to collect on formative basis |
Record review |
Social, Academic, and Emotional |
Descriptive - Indirect |
Low: Evidence is limited |
High: Involves examination of data schools already have on hand (e.g., grades, attendance, office discipline referrals) |
Functional Analysis Screening Tool (Iwata & DeLeon, 1995) |
Social, Academic, and Emotional |
Descriptive - Indirect |
Low: Evidence is somewhat limited and inconsistent |
Moderate: Takes only a few minutes to complete, but requires third party to administer |
Functional Assessment Checklist for Teachers and Staff (March et al., 2000) |
Social, Academic, and Emotional |
Descriptive - Indirect |
Strong: Several studies supporting moderate to strong reliability, concurrent validity, social validity, and treatment utility |
Moderate: Takes a few minutes to complete, but requires third party to administer |