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

[Carol Mosely <>]

We are measuring knowledge, bystander skills and behavior, survivor support skills, critical thinking about cultural supports, and behavioral intent for college students who have participated in our online training Agent of Change. We work with Dr. Paul Schewe, Director of the Interdisciplinary Center for Research on Violence at the University of Illinois, Chicago, to design and evaluate these measures.

Here's a link to the report from 2013: http://agentofchange.net/data.html

All the measures show positive change.

The 2014 report will be up in a few weeks.

I agree with Holly that we as a field are not yet able to measure behavior, and with David that we in an evidence-gathering phase. For those not involved in evaluation, I find it helpful to talk about why it's difficult to find proof, and to talk about all the exciting work and thinking being done about evaluating prevention efforts.

Carol Mosely

| Director

334-593-0699 office

334-294-4811 cell

www.weendviolence.com

On Jan 30, 2015, at 9:35 AM, John Foubert wrote:

Sarah & SAPC,

That is an interesting question about evidence that proves.  I'd be tempted to say that in the behavioral sciences, evidence can support a conclusion but not 'prove' it per se.  We do, of course, have many ways of supporting a conclusion, some we can have a lot of confidence in.

I would point your colleague to a couple peer reviewed studies to add to the mix.  This study details the results of a study on 90% of the first-year men on a college campus in a randomized design with a control group, showing that high-risk men who saw The Men's Program committed 40% fewer acts of sexual assault in a year than the control group.  A follow-up study two years after program participants showed that program effects lasted two years for 79% of the sample.  An additional study found increases in bystander willingness and efficacy for first-year men seeing the program.  

A program for women titled The Women's Program has peer-reviewed research demonstrating increased bystander efficacy and willingness and lower rape myth acceptance.  

Please feel free to contact me at with any questions.

John 

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On Thu, Jan 29, 2015 at 9:22 PM, Diaz, Sarah <> wrote: