Number of individuals with improved financial knowledge
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Tier 2: Add one free instrument
Asks for a reported change in knowledge, attitude, behavior or condition.
Instruments for employment readiness and financial well-being
- CFPB Financial Well-Being Scale, standard Public domain 10 scored + 2 scoring-context questions items, about 3-5 min
License: “free and publicly available”
EN; Spanish. CFPB-created information is public domain, with third-party exceptions. Do not calculate a simple percentage of raw points.
Form - CFPB Financial Well-Being Scale, abbreviated Public domain 5 scored + 2 context questions items, about 2-3 min
License: “free and publicly available.”
EN; Spanish. Related version of the standard scale, not an independent construct.
Form - USDA six-item food-security module Federal work 6 scored items, about 2-4 min
License: “G, federal-work basis; instrument-specific licensing sentence not located. ERS directs users to USDA policy; that policy page itself did not open and remains unverified.”
EN; Spanish/Chinese resources. Does not measure children's food security separately. Rights rest on federal authorship (17 USC 105).
Form - USDA Adult Food Security Survey Module Federal work 10 scored items, about 3-5 min
License: “G, federal-work basis; same qualification as the six-item module.”
EN; translated resources. Adult household conditions; not a measure of employment. Rights rest on federal authorship (17 USC 105).
Form - USDA Household Food Security Survey Module Federal work 18 scored, with skip patterns items, about 5-10 min
License: “G, federal-work basis; same qualification as the six-item module.”
EN; Spanish/Chinese resources. Select the documented 12-month or 30-day version consistently. Related to the six-item and adult modules. Rights rest on federal authorship (17 USC 105).
Form - General Self-Efficacy Scale, Schwarzer/Jerusalem Free, with conditions 10 items, about 4 min
License: “permission to use and reproduce the General Self-Efficacy Scale for your study”
EN; extensive translations. The author's permission explicitly addresses research studies; do not represent it as unrestricted permission for a commercial product.
Form - Career Engagement Scale Free, with conditions 9 items, about 2-3 min
License: “CC BY-NC 4.0; attribution and noncommercial scope; commercial use requires author permission.”
EN verified. Standard recall is six months. Measures behavior, not job placement, wages or retention.
Form - CRQ-A: four selected career-resource subscales Free, with conditions 12, four validated 3-item subscales items, about 3-5 min
License: “CC BY-NC 4.0: attribution and noncommercial use.”
EN verified. The complete CRQ-A has 36 items and fails the length rule; this entry concerns the named subscales only.
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Definition of Individuals: those reported in measure O1A, V1, V7A, or V8 Key Terms Improved financial knowledge: increased knowledge/understanding of financial literacy topics such as credit management, financial institutions including banks and credit unions, and utilization of savings plans How to Survey, interview, or other instrument capable of measuring changes in financial Measure/ knowledge at the individual beneficiary level. When possible, pre-post Collect Data assessments should be utilized.
- Instrument
- eGrants Performance Measure Module
- Target
- Applicant proposes the target