The Instruments

The Toolkit contains a menu of youth survey questions encompassing nine broad outcome areas: Academic Success; Arts and Culture, Community Involvement, Core Values, Cultural Responsiveness, Healthy Lifestyles, Life Skills, Positive Life Choices, and Sense of Self as well as questions related to program quality. This Toolkit contains multiple versions of youth outcome survey templates to accommodate Spanish-speaking youth, high and low literacy youth, and various stakeholder groups (parents, staff and teachers).

The Youth Program Quality Intervention (YPQI) is a comprehensive system for improving program quality, built around the research-validated Program Quality Assessment (PQA). This Box Set provides everything you need to assess the quality of your program(s), identify staff training needs, and ultimately use data for continuous quality improvement. This box set is appropriate for a single program site (grades K – 6).

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This scale measures three dimensions of purpose: goal directedness, personal meaning, and beyond-the-self orientation. Purpose is operationalized by the developers of the scale as a long-term, forward looking intention to accomplish meaningful aims. Each of the 12 items has a Likert style response, but the scale items are unique to each question causing a slower response time which can lead to a more accurate measure.  Subscore(s): Purpose, Goal Directed Behavior

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The Zarit Burden Inventory (ZBI) is a self-report instrument that measures the level of burden that principal caregivers experience. Originally developed for caregivers of persons with dementia, ZBI is now used with various types of caregivers, including parents of children with health, behavioral, and developmental problems. The current full version, ZBI-22, has 22 items, each using a 5-point Likert-type scale. Shorter versions exist; see Yu et al. (2019) in the psychometric references below.

ZooU is a game/performance based SEL assessment tool for students in grades 2 - 4. It is published and sold by Centervention, which also publishes other game-based assessments Zoo Academy (grades K-1), SS Grin (grades 3-5) Hall of Heroes (grades 6-8), and Stories in Motion (for K-5 students with autism). Subscore(s): Impulse Control, Emotion Regulation, Communication, Cooperation, Initiation, Empathy

Note: The overview provided for this instrument includes content that may have been sourced from the instrument publisher's or author’s website (or other site providing information about the instrument). This information is presented for educational and informational purposes only. If you have any questions about the content or its permitted uses, please contact annenberg@brown.edu.