Does your school or district ever wonder
whether its character education initiative is having the intended
effects? Do you see improvements in school climate and student
behavior and desire to document them? Do you want to pin point
what needs improvement in your initiative? Are those funding your
initiative wanting to see hard data? The Character Education Evaluation Toolkit is full of practical, user-friendly evaluation methods that provides beginning evaluators with background information and step-by-step instructions for implementing a useful, accurate and cost-efficient program evaluation.
(The Character Education Evaluation Toolkit is book XI of the Character Education Partnership's Eleven Principles Sourcebook. It is no longer sold separately from the Sourcebook.) Why have the Eleven Principles Sourcebook? If you are a school or district in the initial stages of planning a character education initiative, this book provides the "
big picture" necessary to build a roadmap and understand the process. Schools and districts seeking to improve on and sustain their initiatives will find that the content of the Sourcebook will help with evaluating what they currently have in place and suggest ways to build upon their efforts. The Eleven Principles Sourcebook contains eleven guidebooks and a DVD to bring each of the Eleven Principles of Effective Character Education to life. It provides examples from national Schools of Character, shares research and resources, and includes facilitation guides and summaries of key points for each principle. Click on the links above for more details and ordering information.
This instrument outlines key components
of effective character education and allows schools and districts
to evaluate their efforts in relation to these criteria. It provides
a means for educators, administrators, and community members to
reflect on current practices, identify short and long-term objectives,
and develop or improve a strategic plan. Character
Education Quality Standards is based on CEP's Eleven Principles
of Effective Character EducationTM and The Eleven
Principles Survey by Tom Lickona and Matthew Davidson.
The Character in Action Survey (CiAS) is designed to provide
either a one-time assessment or over-time monitoring of students’ views
and experiences of character development and relevant practices
among faculty, staff, parents, and other community members. The
instrument consists of parallel student and adult forms that triangulate
several perspectives on students' pro-social attitudes, school social climate,
students' experiences of caring community, ethical behavior, and experiences
of character education, as well as adults' character development practices.
For questions on the CiAS
and for the most recent version of the survey, please contact Cornerstone Consulting.
This checklist is designed to provide information
on coaches’ approach to character development. This information
is not used to evaluate coaches. Rather, it collects
important information that can guide future discussions about
character development in sports.
Collective Responsibility for Excellence and Ethics (CREE)
The Collective Responsibility for Excellence
and Ethics (CREE) instrument measures various aspects of the
ethical learning community and the development of the strengths
of character. More specifically, the student component measures
students' responsibility for self and for others in the performance
and moral domains, ethical learning community among students,
and their experiences of learning the strengths of character
(Lickona and Davidson, 2005). The teacher component measures
teachers' practices promoting performance and moral character
and their assessments of the extent to which students are
learning the strengths of character.
For questions on the CREE
and for the most recent version of the survey, please contact Cornerstone Consulting.
Global Portraits of Social & Moral Health
Developed and validated by Dr. Matthew Davidson of the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs at SUNY Cortland and Dr. Vladimir Khmelkov of the University of Notre Dame, there are two versions (parallel) of the survey: one for youth and one for adults. The survey has several scales and subscales that measure the overall social and moral health of a community and its schools. Although not designed to evaluate a specific program, it can be used in a variety of settings and with many different character development programs. Global Portraits has been used successfully throughout DuPage County, Illinois for three years and is now available for other schools and communities so that national normative data can be developed.
To request permission to use Global Portaits, please contact Dr. Matt Davidson.
Individual and Team Character
in Sport Questionnaire (ITCSQ) Davidson,
Khmelkov, & Moran-Miller (2003)
The Individual and Team Character in Sport
Questionnaire (ITCSQ) is a 48 item survey questionnaire designed
to measure character-related outcomes within a sport setting.
The ITCSQ has
three scales: a Values Rating Scale, a Community Climate
Scale, and a Character Development Experiences Scale.
This questionnaire is designed to assess stakeholder perceptions of the school as a caring community and contains 42 items in a 5-point Likert format. The entire 42-item survey may be completed by both students and adults. However, validation analysis indicates stronger validity and reliability when students complete the first 34 items only and adults complete all 42 items.
The TCAP is a planning and assessment tool constructed for use with the Center for the 4th and 5th Rs’s 12-Point Comprehensive Approach to Character Education. The instrument provides outcome indicators for each component of the comprehensive approach. It may be used in its entirety, or one component at a time. Additional space is provided for supplemental items measure outcome indicators specific to particular program contexts.
