Life Skills Student Survey

Measure and strengthen students’ life skills—the learning, social, and professional abilities they need to thrive in school and beyond.

About the Life Skills Survey Topics

Panorama’s life skills survey topics help schools and districts measure, understand, and develop the broad set of abilities that students need to navigate school and life. These include learning, social, and professional skills such as growth mindset, self-management, and perseverance, that support success inside and outside the classroom. Built on rigorous research, the topics give educators a valid and reliable way to understand how students see their own strengths—and where they need more support.

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Measuring Students’ Perceptions of Their Life Skills

Understanding how students view their own life skills is key to supporting their growth. Research shows that students’ mindsets, skills, and attitudes are strong indicators of academic and future success. When students reflect on their abilities—and schools listen—it creates the conditions for academic achievement and a learning environment where all students can thrive.

Panorama designed the life skills survey as a series of scales—which are question sets that capture different aspects of the same theme, such as self-efficacy or social awareness.

Schools and districts can choose the survey topics that align with their priorities. We recommend selecting four to seven topics for each survey to ensure a focused, meaningful survey-taking experience for students. Panorama provides developmentally appropriate survey content and translations for students in grades 3-5 and 6-12.

Thousands of schools and millions of students nationwide use Panorama’s life skills survey content every year. For school and district leaders interested in partnering with us for survey administration, survey analytics, and professional learning, get in touch or learn more about Panorama Surveys and Engagement.

Example Topics

Growth Mindset

Student perceptions of whether they have the potential to change those factors that are central to their performance in school.

Self-Management

How well students manage their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors in different situations.

Social Awareness

How well students consider the perspectives of others and empathize with them.

Self-Efficacy

How much students believe they can succeed in achieving academic outcomes.

Learning Strategies

How well students deliberately use strategies to manage their own learning processes generally.

Perseverance

How well students are able to persevere through setbacks to achieve important long-term goals (not limited to academics), taking into account their experiences and identities.

Research Methodology

Panorama’s student life skills survey content was developed by leading survey methodologists and education researchers on the Panorama research team, in partnership with researchers at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

The research team followed a rigorous survey development process that involved multiple rounds of piloting and refinement, cognitive interviews with students, an extensive review of survey literature, and feedback from experts around the country.

Read the Validity Brief

Research methodology: focus group engagement

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Life Skills Student Survey