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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Sutter-Eyberg Student Behavior Inventory-Revised

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Level: Child Level
Type of Tool: Assessment Tool
Construct: Challenging behaviors
Respondent: Teacher
Language(s): English; Spanish
Length: 5-10 minutes; 38 items
Description: A teacher-report measure used to assess conduct problems in youth ages 2 to 16. Teachers are able to indicate the current frequency of behavior problems and to indicate whether they find the behaviors to be problematic.
Subscales: Problem Scale Intensity Scale
Published Psychometrics?: Yes See for example: Querido, J. G., & Eyberg, S. M. (2003). Psychometric properties of the sutter-eyberg student behavior inventory-revised with preschool children. Behavior Therapy, 34(1), 1-15.
Citation for Tool: Eyberg, S., & Pincus, D. (1999). Eyberg Child Behavior Inventory & Sutter-Eyberg Student Behavior Inventory-Revised: Professional Manual. Odessa, FL: Psychological Assessment Resources.
In the Public Domain?: No - Available for purchase from Psychology Assessment Resources, Inc.
Norms: Has norms

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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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