CORE – Aggregating the world's open access research papers. The DAP is built on the Developmental Assets® Framework, which is a set of 40 positive supports, opportunities, and relationship qualities young people need across all aspects of their lives (called 'external assets') and personal skills, social emotional strengths, self-perceptions, and values they need to make good choices, take responsibility for their actions, and be independent.
| General Information on the Measure | |
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| Purpose of the measure | The DAP assesses young people's strengths, supports, and other noncognitive factors critical for success in life. The DAP can be used to plan positive youth development programs or to identify areas in need of strengthening. |
| Main constructs measured | Intrapersonal competencies; Interpersonal competencies |
| Applicable grade levels | Ages 8-18 |
| Publication year for the most recent version | No information is available in the references reviewed. |
| Year originally developed | 2004 |
| Related measures | |
| Measure Administration | |
| Respondent | Student |
| Method of administration | Paper/Pencil, Digital |
| Number of items | 58 |
| Item format | Four-point Likert-type scale |
| Administration time | 10 minutes |
| Available languages | English, Spanish, and other languages including Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Chinese, French, Japanese, Nepali, Portuguese, and Tagalog |
| Fee for use | Fee charged by developer |
| Credentials required for administration | None |
| Scoring | |
| Overall score reporting | A total DAP score is reported. |
| Subscore reporting | Eight subscores are reported:
Scores are also provided by family, school, community, social, and personal contexts. |
| Scoring procedures | An online scoring service is provided by the assessment developers. |
| Interpretive information | Score reports include narrative information on areas of strength and growth, and they identify asset levels as challenged, vulnerable, adequate, or thriving. |
| Evidence of Technical Quality | |
| Populations for which technical quality evidence has been collected | Evidence was collected from two samples: 6th-12th grade students in Minnesota (N=13,00), and 6th-8th grade students in Oregon (N=1,110). Additional pilot-testing has occurred with international populations to validate contextualized and translated measures. |
| Reliability evidence | Internal consistency estimates averaged 0.81 for the eight asset category scales and 0.88 for the five context scales. Overall DAP score had an internal consistency of 0.97. 6 o clock hold. A 6-O'clock hold, then, means a sight picture (front sight, rear sight and target) wherein the sights are aligned immediately below the bullseye. So when someone says 'give me a 6 O'clock hold,' or 'hold at 6 O'Clock,' they are simply asking you to aim slightly low. This is done for two reasons. Caution - the six o'clock hold is more of a target thing. It works best with a rifle or pistol sighted in at a given distance on a non-changing target. However, the late and great Elmer Keith liked using a six o'clock hold for hunting game animals. A dead center hold is usually better for combat simulation games like IDPA or IPSC. Test-retest reliability was estimated over a two-week interval, and averaged 0.79 for the eight asset categories. Overall DAP score had a test-retest reliability of 0.87. (Search institute, 2016). |
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| Locating the Measure | |
| Obtaining a copy of the measure | search-institute.org |
| References | |
Search Institute, 'Developmental assets profile: User manual,' Minneapolis, MN, 2016a. Search Institute, 'User Guide for the Attitudes and Behaviors Survey,' Minneapolis, MN, 2016b. | |
| Notes | |
This measure is also reviewed in the AWG Guide. |
Dap Scoring Manual Software
Measure summary updated October 3, 2018.
