{"id":16175,"date":"2015-12-17T08:51:36","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T13:51:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16175"},"modified":"2015-12-17T08:51:36","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T13:51:36","slug":"survey-measures-of-civic-learning-and-engagement-that-track-change-from-grades-4-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/?p=16175","title":{"rendered":"survey measures of civic learning and engagement that track change from grades 4-12"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our colleagues\u00a0Amy Syvertsen,\u00a0Laura Wray-Lake, and Aaron Metzger\u00a0have <a href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/guest-post-civic-and-character-development-good-data-starts-with-good-measures\/\">posted on the CIRCLE website<\/a> a set of survey-based measures of civic engagement that they have carefully developed to be appropriate\u00a0for kids all the way from fourth grade up to\u00a0twelfth grade. Such measures are invaluable for assessing growth and learning. They are hard to develop, for reasons the authors describe on the CIRCLE website. Even just\u00a0finding phrases that are appropriate for both children and older teenagers is a challenge. The new\u00a0toolkit is the\u00a0result of an intensive and highly professional\u00a0project funded by the John Templeton Foundation, and it sets the standard.<\/p>\n<p>See\u00a0<a title=\"Permanent Link: Guest Post: Civic and Character Development: Good Data Starts with Good Measures\" href=\"http:\/\/www.civicyouth.org\/guest-post-civic-and-character-development-good-data-starts-with-good-measures\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Civic and Character Development: Good Data Starts with Good Measures<\/a>. The recommended citation for the toolkit itself is: Syvertsen, A. K., Wray-Lake, L., &amp; Metzger, A. (2015). Youth civic and character measures toolkit. Minneapolis, MN: Search Institute.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our colleagues\u00a0Amy Syvertsen,\u00a0Laura Wray-Lake, and Aaron Metzger\u00a0have posted on the CIRCLE website a set of survey-based measures of civic engagement that they have carefully developed to be appropriate\u00a0for kids all the way from fourth grade up to\u00a0twelfth grade. Such measures are invaluable for assessing growth and learning. They are hard to develop, for reasons the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advocating-civic-education"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16176,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16175\/revisions\/16176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peterlevine.ws\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}