The Process Skills Rating Scales: Revised offers a systematic method for measuring a student's current skill level and future growth in several important areas. The scales rate a child's processing skills related to thinking, reasoning, and searching for knowledge independently, as well as communicating and interacting effectively. The scales provide educators with a snap-shot of a child's skill level in the following skill areas:
The primary purpose of the rating scales is to help educators define a child's current level of skill in these areas and to monitor the child's progress in these areas. Also, the scales help identify student strengths and point out areas that may need improvement. The scales are not standardized or normed; they are designed only to be used as an information-gathering tool for monitoring student progress in relation to processing skills.
Process skills should not be taught in isolation. They should be integrated and become part of the instructional curriculum. The use of the scales as research instruments is not advised.