Durable Skills
Durable skills are the foundation for lifelong success.
Our screeners and partnerships provide the insights you need to assess and develop these essential abilities in students, empowering them to thrive in education, careers, and beyond.
A few of our survey options:
SSIS Stress and Resilience Assessment (SaRA)
Network for Teacher Entrepreneurship (NFTE)
Academic Competence Evaluation Scales (ACES-2)
DIA Higher Education Collaborators ISSAQ-2
ASSESSMENTS FOR GROWTH
DURABLE SKILLS SCREENING options
Durable skills like critical thinking, communication, and collaboration are essential for student success in the classroom and beyond. Our comprehensive surveys provide valuable insights into these skills, helping educators tailor instruction and support student development. We offer a range of assessments designed to measure and foster growth in areas such as social-emotional learning, academic competence, and entrepreneurial mindset. These tools empower both students and teachers to identify strengths, target areas for improvement, and track progress over time. Explore our survey options and discover how you can unlock student potential by focusing on durable skills development.
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The EMI is a tool to develop entrepreneurial awareness and build upon the entrepreneurial skills and behaviors that instill career readiness by measuring mastery in eight core domains. NFTE’s EMI is a largely reliable and valid instrument to measure entrepreneurial mindset. Working with researchers at the Educational Testing Service (ETS) and with support from EY, NFTE identified the eight domains as critical to entrepreneurial thinking. The eight domains are captured with Likert items (questions that ask students to self-report agreement) and Situational Judgement Tests (questions that ask students to respond to a real-world scenario that is tied to a domain).
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20 SEL items aligning directly to CASEL competencies, 10 Emotional Behavioral Health Items, and 5 Stress items. Takes 7-8 minutes to complete. Primarily used for Universal Screening & Program Evaluation of SEL Skills, Emotional Behavior Concerns, and Stress Tier 1. Student (3-12), Guardian (K-12), and Teacher (K-12) forms available.
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The Academic Competence Evaluation Scales (ACES)--soon to be rebranded as the Academic Competence System (ACS)--are a suite of assessments that proactively assess students' social, behavioral, and academic skills in order to identify students who need intervention and help teachers serve students according to their needs.
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The ISSAQ Student Survey is an assessment that measures first year college students’ noncognitive skills in order to identify strengths and challenges that are indicative of student success beyond traditional academic measures (e.g., test scores and class rank).