Description: <p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The Devereux Student Strengths Assessment (DESSA) is a 72-item, standardized, norm-referenced behavior rating scale that assesses the social-emotional competencies that serve as protective factors for children in kindergarten through the eighth grade.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The DESSA can be completed by parents/guardians, teachers, or staff at schools and child-serving agencies, including after-school, social service and mental health programs.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">The DESSA Complete Kit includes the DESSA Manual, 1 pack of DESSA Record Forms (25 paper forms, which are scorable by hand) and the DESSA Norms Reference Card.</p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; color: rgb(20, 20, 18); font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 21px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Do you require unlimited uses or prefer online administration, scoring and reporting of the DESSA-mini? Visit our friends at Aperture Education to l<font face="arial" style="line-height: 21px;">earn more about <span style="line-height: 28.6px;"><font size="2">the DESSA SEL System here: </font></span></font><a href="https://apertureed.com/">https://apertureed.com/</a><a href="http://www.apperson.com/k12/evo-social-emotional" target="_blank" style="line-height: 21px;"></a></p>
