EIS Benefits
How does the EIS overcome many of the barriers that schools experience in using other screeners? With input from our school partners, we designed the EIS to have the following features.
- Currently available at no cost to schools.
- Developed in partnership with schools to be sure it fit their context and resources.
- Administered and scored online and provides immediate results to schools in an easy-to-interpret dashboard system.
- Includes both teacher (K‑12) and student ratings (3–12) with the same items and constructs across development.
- Brief and easy-to-complete.
- Teachers can complete an entire class (20 students) in 10 minutes (compared to the BESS: 1.5- 3.5 hours).
- Students complete it in 3–10 minutes.
- Based on a well-established theory of changeable risk factors for youth social, emotional, and behavioral challenges (Patterson et al., 1992).
- Uses local norms.
- Provides contextually relevant information based on local context.
- Identifies only students with highest needs in that context.
- Free online assistance to support school implementation, interpretation, and use of the EIS (Intervention Hub & Implementation Roadmap).
- Administered over the past 10 yrs in 54 schools twice per year; now being used by over 200 schools in 7 states.