ASK-TEI Offers Succinct yet Comprehensive Feedback to Trainers and Administrators
The Attitudes, Skills, and Knowledge Training Evaluation Index (ASK-TEI) is a comprehensive and useful short form for quickly evaluating professional development training programs in schools and youth-serving agencies. It was developed to provide rapid feedback to staff development trainers and intervention program administrators.

Printed on a single sheet that can be filled out in 15 minutes or so, ASK-TEI gathers respondents' opinions about the training module's relevance to the school's or agency's goals, staff, and students; the module's organization and content; whether there was sufficient time to learn, brainstorm problems, practice, and plan; and whether the trainers modeled and taught high-quality instructional and relational skills. Respondents are encouraged to offer their own creative ideas about how to improve the training in the future and to share their insights resulting from the training.

Three Ways to Use ASK-TEI
First, in itself, ASK-TEI is ideal for on-the-spot, comprehensive feedback. Second, IASG's data analysis of responses discloses subtle statistical correlations in easily understandable graphic form and text. Third, when ASK-TEI is administered at intervals throughout a training program, IASG can also conduct a longitudinal study with the instrument as an optional service at an additional fee.

How We Score ASK-TEI
ASK-TEI contains 19 items scored with a 5-point Likert response format and 8 items prompting open-ended responses. For the Likert response format items, respondents are asked to indicate the intensity of their agreement or disagreement with statements that relate to the training. All of the survey items are scored in the positive direction: The higher the score on a survey item or variable, the greater the amount of that quality the respondents assess the training as having. The highest possible score on a variable is 5.0. The lowest possible score is 1.0.

ASK-TEI Results Are Confidential
As with all of IASG's surveys, questionnaires, and inventories, the confidentiality of all respondents is assured, as results are considered only in the aggregate. Pertinent open-ended responses are retyped by IASG staff members before being submitted to the trainers and program administrators.