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.

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Maslach Burnout Inventory

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Level: Teacher Characteristics
Type of Tool: Screening Tool
Construct: Burnout for medical and human service professionals
Respondent: Other professional
Language(s): English; Chinese; French; Other
Length: 22 items
Description: Most commonly used measure of burnout, linked with outcomes including turnover and suboptimal care. There are different versions including a General version and ones for Medical Personnel, Human Service Workers, Educators, and Students
Subscales: Varies based on version. The Human Services Survey, subscales are Emotional Exhaustion (EE), Depersonalization (DP), and low sense of Personal Accomplishment (PA)
Published Psychometrics?: Yes See for example: Schaufeli, W. B., Bakker, A. B., Hoogduin, K., Schaap, C., & Kladler, A. (2001). On the clinical validity of the Maslach Burnout Inventory and the Burnout Measure. Psychology & health, 16(5), 565-582.
Citation for Tool: Maslach, C., Jackson, S. E., & Leiter, M. P. (1996). Maslach burnout inventory manual (3rd ed.). Palo Alto, CA: Consulting Psychologists Press.
In the Public Domain?: No - Available for purchase on the Mind Garden website

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.

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