Assessing College Knowledge and Mindset
Interested in assessing what students understand about the steps they need to take to get into college? Wondering if students are developing a stronger college-going mindset as a result of your program?
Merit Research developed an assessment tool to answer these kinds of questions. The assessment is designed to be given to students at two different points in time in order to assess improvements in students' college knowledge and mindset.
Assessment keys for each tool can be used to analyze student responses and identify individual areas of strength and weakness or trends among students, which can useful in program design.
Several College Spark grantees are currently piloting these tools. The tools will be refined based on feedback and reliability testing. If you have any feedback on the tools, please contact Heather Gingerich at heather@collegespark.org or (206) 461-5326.
Additional assessment tools that may be of use to your program can be found on the Washington College Access Network webiste.