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This microsite includes survey instruments that can be used to document youth’s experience of connected learning.

Find Instruments

Instruments

Connected Learning Principles

A survey for measuring youth experiences of interest-related activities according to principles of connected learning

Program Experiences

A survey of youth’s experiences in programs designed to promote connected learning

Connected Learning Outcomes

A survey for measuring potential outcomes of connected learning

Principles: Levels of Depth

For each of the principles, we have defined maps that describe deeper and less deep experiences of connected learning. Below, you can see how we have characterized the deepest levels for each construct.

Interest Powered

Youth pursue their interests in a way that pervades their lives, and their pursuit deepens their knowledge and expands their horizons.

Production Centered

Youth ask for and iterate based on feedback on their designs, consistently applying a critical stance toward their own and others’ designs. They circulate designs to a broad audience whose thinking and action they seek to influence.

Shared Purpose

Youth participate in activities with a common purpose, equitable participation, and opportunities to lead and contribute.

Openly Networked

Youth have access all the time to needed digital tools and support for their use; pathways of participation across places to deepen interest are transparent and accessible.

Peer Supported

Other people broker access to new opportunities and resources to deepen and pursue interests.

Academically Oriented

Youth pursue their interests in a way that pervades their lives, and their pursuit deepens their knowledge and expands their horizons.

These different levels of depth permit you to document ways
that individual youth experience varies.  >> Read More

Using the Instruments

This technical report presents validity and reliability data about the instruments
and describes how best to use them.  >> Read More

Our Team

Katie Van Horne

We developed our survey items in collaboration with both members of the Connected Learning Research Network and a group of youth helped us pilot test and refine our items to make them both youth-friendly and closely aligned to the Connected Learning model.

@dizzvh

Bill Penuel

We collaborated with educators and youth from Hive New York and the Colorado Alliance For Creative Youth Development to brainstorm what youth might say or do that reveal evidence for outcomes that educators and youth care about in their programs. These outcome items are now reflected in the outcome and the program experience items.

@bpenuel

Vera Michalchik

We followed an evidence-centered design approach to developing items. In evidence-centered design, developers begin with defining the constructs to be measured, and then develop items intended to elicit students’ experiences relative to those constructs. We used pilot data to refine both our items and constructs and to assess the validity and reliability of our items.

@verasafa

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