BASELINE MEASURE

The baseline measure is very simple - ask the boys and young men.

There are twenty-five questions that boys are asked to respond to on a five-point scale.

Once the questionnaire has been explained by an educator, it takes boys, on average, ten minutes to complete this task.

The questions are grouped around five standout themes from the TBS research

  • Voice

  • Influence

  • Interdependence

  • Belonging

  • Being a Boy

Make sure to explain

  • Why this data is being collected

  • What will be done with the data

  • Who will have access to the data

  • How confidentiality will be ensured

  • Rights to opt-out of participation

Simply click the relevant button to access a ready made questionnaire and follow the instructions in the dropdown menu.

Setting up the questionnaire

    1. Click the relevant button to access the school / youth work / FE version of the questionnaire.

    2. This will open a new window. Click the ‘Duplicate It’ option at the top.

    3. Once duplicated, you can edit any of the content.

    4. Next click on the ‘collect responses’ to get a link or a QR code to share with boys and young men to complete the questionnaire.

    5. Once you have responses collected, you can click on "view responses" and you'll see all the data. 

    6. You will have full access to the data you collect. An Excel sheet can be downloaded with all the raw data. 

    7. Once you have collected all your responses on your baseline questionnaire, please consider anonymising names and sharing with tbs2research@gmail.com to feed into a larger analysis of impact. 

Managing and sharing data

Only the creator of the duplicated questionnaire will have access to the data.

Please consider sharing the annonymised data with the TBS team by downloading the excel sheet, deleting the name column, and sending it as an attachment to tbs2research@gmail.com.

This will enable an accumulative mass of boys and young men’s voices that will provide important insights for policy, pedagogy, and practice development.