Discussion List for campus-based and allied personnel working to end gender-based violence on campus.

["Molly Dragiewicz" <>]

Hi Anamarie,
I would highly recommend using one of the questionnaries (or items from them) 
that has been nationally or internationally applied and validated so that you 
can compare campus and off campus numbers.
Administrators, staff, faculty and students all like to play the "our numbers 
are much lower than the national numbers" and "I don't believe the numbers" 
games.
I would recommend Mary P. Koss 

 et al.'s Sexual Experiences Survey. It includes both behavioral questions 
that comply with common legal definitions and questions that require naming 
acts. This info can be useful in education later. This tool has been widely 
validated, improved and updated over the years. 
Significantly, it includes short and long versions for both victimization and 
perpetration. I would also advise asking about perpetration at this time. 
Also extremely useful for education and policy and a reminder about the need 
for everyone to think about pereptration as well as victimization.
Also, Walter DeKeseredy And Marty Schwartz have created excellent 
questionnaires for sexual assault and other forms of abuse on campus as well. 

Together these two sets of tools have been very widely used, so you will have 
a lot of opportunities for comparison if you replicate one of these 
approaches.
Good luck to you and make sure you have lots of tenured faculty support for 
this endeavour and the items you choose. There are likely to be 
administrators who do not like the findings. 
Best,
Molly Dragiewicz
 
 
 

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 on behalf of Anamarie Joosse 
        Sent: Wed 11/29/2006 8:25 AM 
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        Cc: 
        Subject: campus assessment
        
        

        We would like to do a "baseline" assessment of the incidence of 
sexual assault
        and attitudes about sexual assault on our campus.  We plan to be 
adding
        questions to the National College Health Assessment (conducted by 
American
        College Health Assoc).
        
        For those of you who have already designed survey items, would you 
please
        share the wording of items you have used?
        
        We are looking to assess attitudes towards sexual assault (as well as 
the
        incidence of sexual assault, which the NCHA gets at well).  
Attitudes/issues
        such as: What is consent? What about when one or both parties have 
been
        drinking?  Assumptions about sexual activity.  The difference between 
coercion
        and seducing. How safe would a student feel about reporting sexual 
assault to
        the college?
        
        Thanks very much,
        Anamarie
        Chair, Sexual Assault Prevention Team: Men and Women Promoting Healthy
        Relationships
        
        
        
        Anamarie Joosse,MA,EdS,LLP
        Broene Counseling Center, Calvin College
        3201 Burton SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49546
        ph:(616)526-6123  fax:(616)526-8504
        

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