Evaluation Measures

Evaluation of program impact is a key part of UC Links work. UC Links principal investigators and collaborating partners have developed a number of evaluation strategies in order to measure the effects of program activities on participating K-12 and undergraduate students.

Sample surveys and rubrics used by UC Links programs can be viewed by clicking on the links below.

Writing Assessments at Club Proteo

These pages contain writing prompts and scoring guides used at Club Proteo in Santa Barbara during 2001-2002 to evaluate children's writing development over time.

Rubric for Documenting Undergraduate Assistance to Children on Writing Tasks

This rubric, developed by the UC Links program at UC Los Angeles, is used to document the nature and extent of undergraduate assistance to children who are engaged in writing tasks.

Rubric for Assessing Children's Writing Development

This rubric, developed by the UC Links programs at UC Los Angeles and UC Santa Barbara, is based on a scoring guide used for the National Assessment of Educational Progress.

HOT Writing Rubric

This rubric was developed by the Humanities Out There (HOT) program at UC Irvine to assess the development of creative and analytical writing done by K-12 students in HOT programs, both in school and after school.

UC Links Undergraduate Survey Items

These items measure program impact on undergraduate students in the areas of future aspirations and conceptual learning.

Computer Literacy Survey for Parents

This Spanish-language survey was developed by the UC Links program at UC Santa Barbara to measure computer literacy among participants in the Parents, Children, and Computers Project.