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Stoneberg, B.D. (2007). Using NAEP to Confirm State Testing Results in the No Child Left Behind Act.
Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 12(5).

Stoneberg, B.D. (2005). Please Don't Use NAEP Scores to Rank Order the 50 States.
Practical Assessment, Research & Evaluation, 10(9).

The Student Opinion Questionnaire (SOQ) is for use in grades 1-8 (but it also has been used in grade 9). The 55-item survey provides a quick measure of student attitudes and opinions about discipline, classroom climate, school climate, learning environment, staff-student relations, perception of self and academic success..

The Opinion Survey for Students (OSS) is for use grades 6-12. The 48-item survey provides a quick measure of student attitudes and opinions about school climate, discipline/safety, learning environment, staff-student relations, perception of self, and academic progress.

The Parent Opinion Questionnaire (POQ) is for parents of students in grades 1-8. The 30-item survey provides a quick measure of parent perceptions about discipline, school climate, learning environment, staff-parent relations, student academic progress and student social progress. A home-school consultant for the Ontario (Oregon) School District has translated the POQ into Spanish.

The Opinion Survey for Parents (OSP) is for parents of students in grades 6-12.  The 20-item survey provides a quick measure of parent attitudes and opinions about school climate, discipline/safety, learning environment, staff-parent relations and academic progress. A home-school consultant for the Ontario (Oregon) School District has translated the POQ into Spanish.

The Instructional Quality Survey (IQS) is for all certificated, classified and administrative staff.  The 72-item survey is an adaptation of one that the RMC Research Corporation (Portland, Oregon) developed under a federal grant to support schoolwide planning.  The IQS assesses how well the school stacks up against 13 traits of "effective schools" including program goals and objectives, expectations for students, coordination among programs, parent and community involvement, staff development, leadership, instruction, academic learning time, monitoring student progress, feedback and reinforcement, school and classroom climate, recognizing excellence and using evaluation results.

The Open Schools/Healthy Schools Survey (MOC) for certificated/professional staff has elementary and secondary levels, both of which provide research-based measures of school climate and organizational health.  The instruments (with near-80 items) and scoring norms, were published in the book entitled Open Schools/Healthy Schools: Measuring Organizational Climate by Wayne K. Hoy, C. John Tarter, and Robert B. Kottkamp Newbury CA: Sage Publications, 1991. (Distributed by Corwin Press, PO Box 2526, Newbury Park CA 91319.)  In the preface, the authors wrote: 

"We encourage all interested researchers and practitioners to use any of the instruments in this book. There is no fee; simply reproduce the instrument and use it in your research or organizational development. We ask only that you share your results with us to that we can refine the measures, develop more comprehensive norms, and add to the body of knowledge about school climate. Address all correspondence to Professor Wayne K. Hoy, Graduate School of Education, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ 08903."  (page viii)

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