Population:High School

This is a self-report tool suitable for high schoolers or adults who have at least a junior high school level of education.  It is intended as a risk-assessment tool.  It is designed to “assess feelings of being overwhelmed and being unable to control or ...

Category:Self-Management
IndicatorsStress Management

The Multidimensional Peer Victimization Scale is a self-report measure, designed to assess four types of peer victimization (social manipulation, attacks on property, verbal victimization, and physical victimization).  Anonymous self-report measures are c ...

Category:Victimization
IndicatorsPeer Victimization

This is an eight-item subscale of a self-report instrument for measuring the amount of communication about sexual risk and sexual risk reduction occurring between parents and their adolescent children, as reported by the adolescent. It has been tested wit ...

The Partner Communication Scale (PCS) is composed of five items that assess frequency of communicating with a sex partner. It was originally pilot-tested with a small sample of African American females ages 14 to 18, but may be used with males, individual ...

The Illinois Bully Scale is an 18 item, self-report measure that contains three subscales for measuring the frequency of fighting, peer victimization, and bully behavior.  Consisting of 9 items, the Bully subscale includes items that address how often a y ...

The Bully Perpetration and Bully Victimization Scales are part of a larger survey called the Student School Survey (SSS), a 70-item, self report survey of school experiences, which has been designed for youth ages 10 to 17. Each scale consists of 4 items. ...

The Favorable Attitudes toward ATOD Use scale is part of the Communities That Care (CTC) Youth Survey. This survey is designed to measure adolescent antisocial behaviors such as drug use, delinquency, and school dropout, and the risk and protective factor ...

Drawing from a variety of national literacy assessments, LLAP was created by the LEARNS partners at Bank Street College of Education in collaboration with the Corporation for National and Community Service. LLAP provides an assessment option for reading e ...

Category:Tutoring

This scale measures the level of tolerance that children/youth have for differences described as” a measure of comfort and acceptance of ethic and cultural diversity in people who are different than oneself” http://forumfyi.org/files/Connecticut%20Assessi ...

  Developed by Dr. Morris Rosenberg, the scale is a self-esteem measure widely used in Social Science research.  The RSES is a ten-item Likert type scale with items answered on a four-point scale, from Strongly Agree to Strongly Disagree.  Five of the it ...

This form aims to capture participant’s perceptions of program leader performance. This is an easy form for adolescent or young adult participants to complete following a program session. It should take no longer than 5 minutes to complete. 

The questions provided by this tool come from the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) which is part of the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System (YRBSS). With versions available for middle school and high school, this survey is designed to assess priority ...

Category:Substance Use

This tool offers a format for documenting and learning from the reasons why the mentoring match ended.  

Category:Mentoring

The A-COPE is a coping inventory designed to explore adolescent coping behaviors that result from the normal adolescent stress associated with trying to create a balance between being connected to and at the same time independent from one’s family.  The c ...

Category:Self-Management
IndicatorsStress Management

The Youth Program Quality Assessment (YPQA), developed and tested by the High/Scope Educational Research Foundation, was designed to help afterschool programs serving grades 4-12 to assess the extent to which their program provides a participatory, safe, ...

The Physical Activity Questionnaire for Adolescents is a nine-item, seven day self-report recall questionnaire designed and extensively used for surveillance and monitoring.  The PAQ-A is a self-administered.  It was developed to assess general levels of ...

This scale assesses student beliefs about personal abilities to complete schoolwork successfully. The scale was based on and adapted from related work, including Bandura (1997), Patrick, Hicks and Ryan (1997), Roeser, Midgley and Urdan (1996), and Ryan an ...

Category:Tutoring

This questionnaire is used to measure self-regulation of teens. It has items suitable for measuring both short-term and long-term self-regulation.  Short-term regulation items are: 2, 6, 8, 9, 11, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 21, and 22.  Long-term regulation ...

Category:Self-Management

The Psychological Sense of School Membership scale is designed to measure youths' perceptions of belonging and psychological engagement in school.  The scale can be downloaded from:  Wiley Online Library Please note that this tool is proprietary and may ...

The CIRCLE Civic Engagement Quiz is a tool for the evaluation of young people’s 21st century skills of civic engagement as compared to a national sample. The quiz is focused on respondents’ civics behavior (as opposed to their knowledge). The quiz asks ab ...