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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Teacher-Child · MeasureStudent-Teacher Relationships Scale (Pianta 2001)
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- Level
- Teacher-Child Relationship
- Type of Tool
- Measure
- Construct
- Caregiver-child relationship
- Respondent
- Teacher
- Language(s)
- English
- Length
- Short form is recommended by developer and has 15 items
- Description
- Examines teachers’ relationships with an individual child in their classroom in the areas of conflict and closeness
- Subscales
- Closeness, Conflict
- Published Psychometrics?
- Yes Pianta, R. C., & Steinberg, M. (1992). Teacher‐child relationships and the process of adjusting to school. New Directions for Child and Adolescent Development, 1992(57), 61-80.
- Citation for Tool
- Pianta, R. (2001). Student–Teacher Relationship Scale–Short Form. Lutz, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources, Inc.
- In the Public Domain?
- Yes - Available freely online on the Frank Porter Graham UNC 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.
Need help choosing?
Request technical assistance from the Center of Excellence to help you decide which tools to use.