PBIS Assessments

BoQ: Benchmarks of Quality

Benchmarks of Quality (Revised) for School-wide Positive Behavior Support should be completed at least annually by each school. The Benchmarks are used by teams to identify areas of success, areas for improvement, and by districts and states to guide training and technical assistance and to identify model/exemplar schools.

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SAS: Self-Assessment Survey

The Self-Assessment Survey is used by school staff for initial and annual assessment of effective behavior support systems in their school. The survey examines the status and need for improvement of four behavior support systems: (a) school-wide discipline systems, (b) non-classroom management systems (e.g., cafeteria, hallway, playground), (c) classroom management systems, and (d) systems for individual students engaging in chronic problem behaviors. Each question in the survey relates to one of the four systems. Schools implementing PBIS need to fill this out in April. This needs to be completed by ALL staff (including but not limited to; food service staff, paraprofessionals, custodians, office staff).

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SET: School-wide Evaluation Tool

The School-wide Evaluation Tool (SET) is designed to assess and evaluate the critical features of school-wide effective behavior support across each academic school year. The SET results are used to:

  1. assess features that are in place,
  2. determine annual goals for school-wide effective behavior support,
  3. evaluate on-going efforts toward school-wide behavior support,
  4. design and revise procedures as needed, and
  5. compare efforts toward school-wide effective behavior support from year to year.

Completed by an outside evaluator or an in-district person trained person once a year, usually in May.

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SWIS: School-Wide Information System

The School-Wide Information System (SWIS) is a web-based information system designed to help school personnel to use office referral data to design school-wide and individual student interventions. The three primary elements of SWIS are:

  • An efficient system for gathering information
  • A web-based computer application for data entry and report generation
  • A practical process for using information for decision making

These three elements give school personnel the capability to evaluate individual student behavior, the behavior of groups of students, behaviors occurring in specific settings, and behaviors occurring during specific time periods of the school day. SWIS reports indicate times and/or locations prone to elicit problem behaviors, and allow teachers and administrators to shape school-wide environments to maximize students’ academic and social achievements.

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TIC: Team Implementation Checklist

This checklist is designed to be completed by the PBIS Team once a quarter to monitor activities for implementation of PBIS in a school. The team should complete the Action Plan at the same time to track items that are In Progress or Not Yet Started items. PBIS teams fill out the Team Implementation Checklist (TIC) as a team in October, December, February, April, and June.

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