ITS™

Index of Teaching Stress™

Purpose: Assesses stress in teachers of preschool through 12-grade students

Format: Paper and pencil, E-Manual

Age range: 22 years to 65 years

Time: 20-25 minutes; 15 minutes to score

DETAILS:

The ITS is a 90-item self report measure normed on 1,488 teachers. It is designed to be used as either a part of individual case consultations or as a screening measure to identify situations where excessive levels of stress are being experienced by the teacher in relation to teaching a specific student.

The ITS 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. The subscales of the ITS assess teaching stressors related to the following student characteristics: emotional lability, learning limitations, aggressiveness, anxiety, ADHD type behaviors. The ITS also 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.