The Social Skills Improvement System (SSIS) Performance Screening Guide fills the need for a time-efficient tool for classwide screening of key social, motivational, and academic skills. For use with students in preschool through high school, this universal screening instrument helps assess and document the performance level of all students, not just those in greatest need of intervention.

The SSIS Performance Screening Guide focuses on behaviours in four related skill areas:

• Prosocial Behaviours
• Motivation to Learn
• Reading Skills
• Math Skills

Educators identify the level of performance for each student using criterion-referenced performance continua for each of these areas to measure the student's skills against gradelevel expectations.

With this tool, educators can promptly and effectively identify children who are experiencing behaviour or academic difficulties, rather than relying on the "wait-tofail" model of identification. For intervention materials, see the SSIS Classwide Intervention Program, a companion program to the SSIS Performance Screening Guide. Used together, these tools offer you a coordinated system for improving social skills.

The SSIS Performance Screening Guide provides baseline information prior to starting an intervention and also can be efficiently used to re-screen students after intervention to assess progress on the targeted skill area.

Key Features

• The SSIS Performance Screening Guide assesses both social and academic behaviours for a comprehensive view of students' performance.
• Distinct performance definitions are provided for three age groupings—Preschool, Elementary, and Secondary—to reflect well-documented developmental differences and changing grade-level performance expectations.
• Each of the performance area guides is a criterion-referenced, behaviourally anchored, multi-level performance descriptor that summarizes several weeks of teachers' observations and interactions with students in their classroom.
• Classification and interpretation of results is straightforward.