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Promoting positive youth outcomes is increasingly recognized as an important focus for youth serving organizations in order to both prevent negative outcomes and prepare youth to fully reach their potential.
Youth serving programs need ways in which to measure the impact of their programs in order to provide quality services that meet the needs of youth. Measuring youth development outcomes, however, is challenging. By its nature, youth development is a broad concept that includes many different outcome and indicator areas. How these outcomes are defined can also vary depending on the source and the framework used. Existing surveys that measure positive youth outcomes or assets such as the Search Institute's Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors, can provide important information at a community level, but may be too detailed and lengthy for use in program evaluation.
The READY Tool was developed to be a brief, easy to use program evaluation tool designed to measure four core youth development outcomes:. The Rochester Evaluation of Asset Development for Youth READY tool is an instrument designed to help youth serving programs evaluate the impact of their programs on youth development outcomes of participants. The instrument consists of 40 items which measure four core youth development outcomes along with program participation, connectedness to program, and socio-demographics.
It is a self-report, pencil and paper survey designed to be completed by program participants ages 10 and older. The survey is written at a fourth grade reading level and takes, on average, about minutes to complete. Two of the four core outcomes listed above include additional subcategories. Basic Social Skills includes measures related to communication, self control, and empathy, and Caring Adult Relationships includes staff relationships and program effect on other caring adult relationships.
The tool is designed in a manner that allows programs to self manage both administration of the survey and analysis of the data. This allows programs to personalize the survey by entering the program name and program staff titles prior to printing. The toolkit also includes data entry and analysis software created in Microsoft Excel.
Program staff can enter collected survey data, and the software program will automatically analyze the data and generate a program score report including frequencies and averages for each survey question, as well as summary scores ranging between 0 and for each of the following youth development constructs:. The scores are also stratified by participants' self-reported length of involvement in program, intensity of participation, and connectedness to program.
Summary data related to participants' leisure time activities are also included. Participating community-based youth serving agencies and organizations included:. Early in this project, participants recognized that while positive youth development was a priority at a community level and at a programmatic level, there were no existing tools that allowed programs to easily evaluate their impact on youth development outcomes.
The project participants identified a need for a youth development outcomes measurement instrument that would be easy to use, easy to administer, applicable to a variety of youth serving organizations, and useful for assessing program impact on youth development outcomes. The team began by first identifying youth outcomes and indicators that would be important to measure.
Using a consensus building process, the project team agreed upon four priority youth development outcomes that were applicable to a variety of youth serving programs and that were most important for ongoing program improvement. The core outcomes identified were basic social skills, caring adult relationships, decision making, and constructive use of leisure time.
Survey questions were written and adapted from a variety of sources to measure the four core outcomes. Additional questions to measure socio-demographics, program participation, and program connectedness were also included in the survey. The first draft of the survey was piloted using cognitive interviews with 48 youth who were participating in various programs both in urban and suburban areas.
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