How to Complete an Assessment
We offer different assessments for schools, districts, and out-of-school time sites.
Schools
Once you have logged into the Action Center and joined a school team page, you will see a list of available assessments in your school’s dashboard.
Click on the Assessment that you would like to work on, by clicking on “Assessments” on the left side of the page, or by clicking on an Assessment on your dashboard.
Our Assessments have no required topics, and no required questions. Questions can be completed in any order. If you are not sure which topics you would like to work on, check out our Topic Prioritization Calculator.
On the right side of the page, you will see links to your Action Plan, a PDF guide of the Assessment, a glossary of key terms that you will find in the Assessment, a link to view a report of your responses, and a link to invite a team member to join your team’s page.
Click on the topic you want to work on for a birds-eye view of each question in that area. If anyone on your team has answered that question, you will see their answer. If not, it will say “unanswered.” Click on the question that you would like to answer.
You will now see the question, and all possible responses. You can click on any underlined word or term to get a quick definition.
If the question was previously answered, you will see who last answered, what their response was, and the date they answered.
You will also see which Assessment this question appears on, related resources, and a link to our Get Help page. Go ahead and answer the question, and feel free to add any tasks or notes that would be helpful for you and your team.
Once the question has been answered, you can add it to your Action Plan. You can also follow these instructions to view a report of your Assessment responses.
Note: In order to complete a District Assessment, you must be a District Team Member. Click here for instructions on becoming a District Team Member.
Once you have logged in to the Action Center and joined your district, you will see the link to your District Assessments. Click on the Assessment that you would like to work on and follow these instructions.
District team members can also view Assessment information for schools within their district. Click on “Reports” on the left side of the page, and then click on “view school reports.”
Then, click on the Assessment that you would like to view a report for, and click on a topic area for a helpful graph of your schools’ responses.
You can also click on “view detailed reporting for this topic” to download an Excel or CSV file of your school’s Assessment responses for that topic area.
For more information about how to use this feature, check out our How to Use Reports page.
Our Assessments
Thriving Schools Integrated Assessment
The Thriving Schools Integrated Assessment is an evidence-based self-assessment tool to support schools in identifying strengths and opportunities for improvement regarding policies and practices that promote student achievement and the well-being of students, staff, and teachers.
Thriving Schools Integrated Assessment: District Edition
The Thriving Schools Integrated Assessment: District Edition is an evidence-based self-assessment tool to support districts in identifying strengths and opportunities for improvement regarding policies and practices that promote student achievement and the well-being of students, staff, and teachers.
Healthy Schools Assessment
The Healthy Schools Program Assessment is a version of the School Health Index that addresses the health topics in the Healthy Schools Program Framework of Best Practices: Policy & Environment, Nutrition Services, Smart Snacks, Health & Physical Education, Physical Activity, and Employee Wellness.
The CDC retains the full comprehensive School Health Index at www.cdc.gov/healthyYouth, addressing seven health topics: physical activity and physical education, nutrition, tobacco use prevention, alcohol and other drug use prevention, chronic health conditions (e.g., asthma and food allergies), unintentional injury and violence prevention (safety), and sexual health.
Healthy Schools Assessment: District Edition
The Healthy Districts Assessment allows district leaders to provide a suggested response to their schools for some of the criteria on the Healthy Schools Assessment.
RISE Index
The RISE Index is a tool to help schools assess, prioritize, and plan key activities that promote the social-emotional health of staff and students. The RISE Index supports schools in increasing staff job satisfaction, including reducing staff stress, improving safety, connectedness, and relationships among students and staff, boosting student and staff social-emotional learning, and increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of mental health support systems.
RISE Index: District Edition
The RISE Index: District Edition supports the well-being of district-level staff and enables districts to focus their efforts on supporting school-level social-emotional health policies and practices, in collaboration with other key stakeholders.
Healthy Out-of-School Time Assessment
The Healthy Out-of-School Time (HOST) Assessment can help identify your site’s health priorities and highlight areas for improvement, using the National AfterSchool Association’s Healthy Eating And Physical Activity (HEPA) Standards. For more information, please view the Healthy Out-of-School Time Assessment Guide. There is also a HOST Assessment for overseeing organizations. This Assessment allows out-of-school time leaders the opportunity to provide suggested responses to their sites for some of the criteria on the HOST Assessment.
Helpful Information regarding our Assessments…
- You can work on your Assessments at your own pace, be sure to save any work before logging off.
- To view the latest on when your Assessments were updated, and by which team member, click on your Dashboard and then click on the links to your Assessments.
- Only team members can update Assessments for their organizations.
If you have any questions about our Assessments, please contact our Member Engagement & Support Team.