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APPENDIX 4
Tool for measuring the social capital outcomes of community learning and development
Instructions
Please use the following questionnaire to identify whether any changes in social capital have taken place with participants in your provision. The document is divided into four sections: networks and trust; bridging social capital; social and civic participation; power. Each section contains five questions that are designed to determine whether change has happened in these four different areas of social capital. Providers should choose which of the sections (you can choose as many as you like) they expect to see social capital changes occurring in for participants of their programme.
Each of the questions has the same format to determine whether the participant has experienced a great change, a moderate change, little change or no change in social capital since participating in the programme. The answers are coded in the following way: big change = 3, moderate change = 2, little change = 1 and no change = 0.
Ask the participant all the questions in the section(s) you have chosen, circle the score that corresponds to their answer, and then total the scores and use the score chart below to determine how much change in this area of social capital has occurred.
Score | Change in social capital |
0-2 | No real change |
3-7 | Little change |
8-12 | Moderate change |
13-15 | Big change |
To see finer changes in social capital the score can be marked on the scale shown below
no change | little change | moderate change | big change |
|---|
0 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 |
Prompts for questions
In some instances, when participants have been on a programme for a while, prompts are needed to remind interviewees that the questions are being asked to determine whether changes have taken place since they started on the programme. Prompts are sometimes needed when people identify very strongly with the other members of the group they are in, to make sure that they are talking about changes to them as individuals, not changes that they feel are taking place for the group. Other interviewees may be strongly affected by additional factors in their lives and may need prompting to determine whether the changes they are speaking about occur because of their participation in the provision. Some interviewees will also take part in more than one programme and prompts are needed to try to clarify which programmes have helped to bring about change.
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