Hey Nadine,

The AASHE Resource Center has a member resource which lists several surveys of sustainability awareness, attitudes, and values.  To access this resource visit the Resource Center and choose the link for surveys under the "Education & Research" section.

I hope you find the surveys listed to be helpful.

Best,

Jillian

Dear Nadine,

UC Santa Barbara is in the process of developing a proposal to do a Sustainable Literacy Assessment and is crafting our measurement tools over the next two months.  Please let me know if you have found anything since your post.  Also, please feel free to contact us in June (kmaynard@geog.ucsb.edu) and we can share our measurement tools. 

Take Care,

Katie

Are there any other schools that have started to develop an instrument for assessing sustainability literacy on campus? 

The links in the AASHE Resource Center are useful for general survey information however, as Jillian said above, they do focus more on awareness, attitudes, and values. STARS Credit 13 says specifically that "the sustainability literacy assessment focuses on knowledge of sustainability topics, not values or beliefs." Has anyone else started to work on developing assessment questions of this sort that you could share/collaborate with us (UNC-Chapel Hill) on?

Thank you!

Holly

I too am interested in finding various sustainability literacy assessments. I would appreciate hearing from anyone who would be willing to share their evaluation tool with me.

Much thanks,
Cindy

University of Alaska Fairbanks
cfabbri@alaska.edu

I am part of a group of students designing a sustainability literacy survey for the University of Alberta as part of our undergraduate thesis. We have been finding an abundance of literature and examples of sustainability awareness and values surveys but not much on literacy. If anyone has any advice or leads it would be greatly appreciated.

Good luck to you all in the same boat

-Megan

egler@ualberta.ca

It seems that many of us have the same question, and appear to be re-inventing the wheel, as it were. STARS defines Sustainability very broadly, encompassing ecological, social, and economic aspects. I am working with a social science lab over the next few months to put together our literacy assessment. If you have any input into the process I'd also love to hear it. I'll do my best to post our results back here in the future. Hopefully we can work together to generate an assessment that can easily be implemented at different institutions.

Adam

Well, 6 months later and a few inches down the screen....

Myself and some colleagues will be presenting the Sustainability Literacy Assessment tool we have developed at the AASHE conference in LA. After we refine it a little further we would be quite happy to share it with other institutions who are interested. Please feel free to email me (zwickle.1@osu.edu) and come fine me in LA!

Adam

A year later - you can find a number of sustainability literacy assessments among the STARS submissions. You can either look at each campus report for credit ER 13 or if you have access to the Content Display (STARS participants only) you can get access to about 30 assessments by searching all institutions for ER13.