ITS™

Features and benefits

• Evaluates a teacher's level of stress in three domains: Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Student Characteristics and Teacher Characteristics. The domain and sub scales alert the clinician to specific needs or perceptions that impinge on or may be disrupting the teaching process, and the teacher-student relationship.
• Subscales assess teaching stressors related to five student characteristics: emotional lability, learning limitations, aggressiveness, anxiety, ADHD type behaviors.
• Assesses teaching stressors related to the teacher's perceptions of loss of satisfaction from their teaching role, sense of competence, lack of support, disruption of the teaching process, and frustration working with the student's parents.
• Validity data indicates that teachers who are highly stressed in relation to a specific student may alter their teaching behaviors in negative ways toward that student and other students; that they are actively considering leaving the profession; and that their physical health is being affected.
• Allows the clinician to be aware of the teacher's need for specific forms of support, which is critical if any teacher-based-intervention is being considered for the targeted student.
• When used as a screening measure, the ITS helps teachers self-identify distressing teaching situations, helps the clinician to prioritize cases, and recognizes that teachers create the learning environment that facilitates student success.
• The ITS includes a Professional Manual, a reusable Item Booklet, a hand-scorable carbonless Answer Sheet, and a two-sided Profile Form. Based on the purpose of the evaluation, the ITS Profile Form provides the clinician with a choice of comparison samples (i.e., Randomly Selected Student Normative Sample, Behavior Problem Student Normative Sample), for use in the interpretation of examinee responses.