Outcome Measures for IECMHC
States, tribes, and communities are building the evidence that IECMHC works in early care and education. A common question is which tools to use to measure impact.
Use this Choose and Use tool to plan how you'll measure IECMHC outcomes. It summarizes 22 measures used in two or more IECMHC program evaluations, covering impact on children, teachers, teacher-child relationships, and classrooms or programs.
Choose a measure
All 22 measures, grouped by domain. Choose one to see its full record.
10 measuresChild
- Ages and Stages Questionnaires: Social-Emotional, Second Edition (ASQ-SE-2)
- Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and Child Teacher Report Form (CTRF)
- Devereux Early Childhood Assessment (DECA-P, second edition, DECA-I/T, DECA-C)
- Infant-Toddler Social Emotional Assessment (ITSEA) and Brief Infant-Toddler Social Emotional Assessment (BITSEA)
- Preschool Expulsion Risk Measure
- Preschool-Kindergarten Behavior Scales
- Social Skills Rating System (SSRS) (now called Social Skills Improvement System [SSIS])
- Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) (Child)
- Sutter-Eyberg Student Behavior Inventory-Revised
- The Behavior Assessment System for Children, Third Edition (BASC-3)
2 measuresTeacher-Child
7 measuresClassroom
- Classroom Assessment Scoring System™ (CLASS™ PreK, 2)
- Environmental Rating Scales (ECERS, ITERS, FCCERS, SACERS)
- Goal Achievement Scale
- Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) (Classroom)
- Teaching Pyramid Tools (TPOT, TPI-TOS)
- Teaching Pyramid Tools (TPOT, TPI-TOS) Short Forms
- The Climate of Healthy Interactions for Learning and Development (CHILD) Tool
Disclaimers
Don't limit your data collection to these measures. They are outcome measures: they show how IECMHC affects children, classrooms, and programs. Also collect implementation data (how IECMHC is delivered) and process data (the near-term changes that lead to those outcomes).
Many families who use IECMHC face wide racial and ethnic disparities in access to opportunity. Programs and systems leaders should always collect demographic data, and always break down outcome, process, and implementation data by race/ethnicity, income, language, and disability status.
Make evaluation decisions in light of your program's theory of change, setting, and the people you serve. Where you can, choose measures normed on the populations you serve and available in a language families understand.
In addition to using the Choose and Use Guide, we recommend you also contact the CoE to request technical assistance to refine your decisions about which tools to select.
Need help choosing?
Request technical assistance from the Center of Excellence to help you decide which tools to use.