Publications from 2022

The Adult Rating of Youth (ARY) asks staff to rate children’s and youths’ optimal socioemotional behavioral skills based on behaviors displayed during program activities, as observed during several program offering sessions. ARY scores are good indicators of how children and youth are likely to perform in settings where they are well supported. Staff should observe each child or youth for at least four hours of program activities before using the ARY. The ARY can be used as a pre-test for program planning purposes and, also, as a post-test for assessing socio-emotional skill growth.

QTurn’s Teacher Practices Instrument (TPI) is an observational rating measure designed to assess the quality of teacher (or staff) practices in school classrooms or out-of-school time (OST) programs, build a quality-focused organizational culture, develop improvement goals, identify staff training needs, and provide information about how specific aspects of instructional quality relate to specific aspects of children’s socioemotional skill growth. This measurement tool is applicable to all staff delivering school or OST instruction or other learning experiences and is focused on staff practices that are warm, responsive, scaffolded, and encouraging. Each of the 24 items on the TPI describes a staff practice used to promote the socio-emotional skill growth of children.

The Youth Report of Socio-Emotional Skills (YRSS) asks children and youth about mental and behavioral aspects of their socio-emotional skills in general (i.e., beyond the out-of-school time program setting and into environments such as home and school). The YRSS can be used as a pre-test for program planning purposes and, also, as a post-test for assessing socio-emotional skill growth.