The authors present a research instrument to help teachers identify which of the three traditions they favor when teaching social studies. According to the authors, in the social studies there have developed three competing traditions which appear to be conceptually distinct. Each of the traditions prescribes different modes of selecting and organizing content and teaching. These include the social studies as citizenship transmission, as social sciences, or as reflective inquiry. These positions present a conceptual scheme for classifying the social studies. The scale presented here has been designed for two purposes. It helps teachers identify the tradition which they seem to favor so that they can develop a consistent approach to their teaching of social studies. Also, it helps teachers become aware that they may not mean the same things when they talk about inquiry, discipline, or responsibility, because they are defining these words in the context of their own viewpoints. The 45-item scale includes 15 statements on each of the three traditions. Each of the 45 items is keyed to a specific work indicator, i.e., "independence," such that the item identifies how each of the three traditions would interpret and understand the meaning of "independence." Also each of the items is keyed to Bloom's and Krathwohl's cognitive and affective taxonomies. (Author/DRS)