Early in the first year of formal schooling, clinicians and educators may need a structured way to gauge how a child is adjusting to new academic and social demands. The First-Grade School Adaptation Assessment is a questionnaire-based measure designed to screen for adjustment difficulties and supportive factors across common school-related domains.
The instrument includes 80 items and typically requires about 15 minutes to complete. It is intended to support systematic review of school functioning (e.g., classroom participation, peer interactions, emotional/behavioral adjustment, and school-related stress), helping inform follow-up evaluation, consultation with caregivers and school staff, and targeted support planning.
Developed by Arnold J. Sameroff, the First-Grade School Adaptation Assessment is used to organize observations and reported concerns into clinically interpretable patterns rather than to establish a diagnosis on its own.