Permission to Use Attitudes & Behavior (A&B) Survey Items in Another Survey
- Organizations/individuals wishing to use items from the A&B survey must submit a permissions request form. Please include in the notes section a description of the research project (including scope of project, description of the population to be surveyed, duration of project, etc.), list which items you would like to use, and anticipated reporting methods for the data (e.g., client report, published reports, scientific articles, etc.).
- Permission may be requested for use of up to 30 items from the 156-item survey.
- A formal permission reponse must be received from Search Institute before the organization/individual may move forward with the proposed use of the items.
- Permission is granted for one-time use only. Any additional use of the items or the newly created survey requires additional written approval from Search Institute.
- Permission to use survey items is restricted exclusively to the organization/individual requesting the permission. Permission cannot be transferred to another organization/individual, nor may the new survey be made available for use by another organization/individual.
- Search Institute must be cited on all printed materials (survey, reports, etc.) as follows:
Survey item #‘s [list survey item numbers as they appear in your survey] taken from Search Institute Profiles of Student Life: Attitudes and Behaviors, Copyright © 1996 Search Institute®, Minneapolis, MN. Used by permission. All Rights Reserved.
- Search Institute does not release the scoring (algorithms) for the 40 Developmental Assets. Scoring and subsequent reporting of items by an organization/individual to which permission has been granted to use some of the items from the A&B survey may not be presented as measuring the Developmental Assets, nor presented using the Developmental Assets labels.
