The Panorama Education team works with thousands of districts and schools to measure, understand, and act on student feedback and perspectives with online surveys. Below you can find a list of open-source PDF sample student surveys with research-backed student survey questions to help improve your teaching practice, school climate and supports, social-emotional learning competencies, and student wellbeing.

1. Student Feedback Survey Template for Teacher Evaluation and Classroom Experience

Capture student voice on classroom experience and teacher feedback

The Panorama student feedback survey covers nineteen key topics related to pedagogical effectiveness, student-teacher relationships, rigorous expectations, school climate, classroom climate, teaching style, and more. Thousands of classroom teachers have used these survey questions as a formative tool, and districts have used them to elevate students' opinions and voices as part of teacher evaluation systems.

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2. Student Survey Questions on Supports and Environment

Create an environment where students thrive

School climate, campus safety, and an inclusive school environment impact students' academic success and ability to develop social-emotional competencies in elementary and high school. Educators and administrators use Panorama's student perception survey to build more positive, equitable, and supportive environments for student learning with question types including multiple choice and open-ended questions contained in the form templates.

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3. Student Survey Questions on Social-Emotional Learning Skills and Competencies

Measure and understand each student's SEL competencies

SEL skills are critical to school, career, and life success. Panorama's social-emotional learning assessment supports you to measure and help students develop soft skills with student survey questions measuring growth mindset, self-efficacy, social awareness, and self-management, so you can more effectively build social-emotional learning into your lesson plans and classroom practices.

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4. Sample Student Survey Questions on Wellbeing

Support self-care and student wellbeing

By asking students to reflect on their well-being, school districts can gather actionable survey data to understand the student experience and deliver student services and resources focused on self-care, mental health, and social-emotional learning. Panorama's student wellbeing survey questionnaire template can help district administrators, counseling directors, and educators understand students’ positive feelings, negative feelings, and the social support that students receive from and provide to others through their school experience whether during school or school activities/extra-curricular activities.

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Panorama Student Survey Research Methodology

Panorama Education surveys have been developed under the leadership of Dr. Hunter Gehlbach, Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Director of Research at Panorama Education. Dr. Gehlbach is a leading survey methodologist and education researcher, and a former high school social studies teacher.

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

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4 Templates with Research-Backed Student Survey Questions