The Measurement Guidance Toolkit was developed by the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention's National Mentoring Resource Center (NMRC), through the work of the NMRC Research Board.
The toolkit is grouped into different domains in which mentoring has well-established potential for impact. All recommended instruments have been carefully reviewed and selected by the Research Board of the National Mentoring Resource Center. The goal of this toolkit is to provide well-vetted recommendations for instruments that are suitable for use by mentoring programs and their evaluators. This should allow programs to more accurately capture their impacts, thus setting the stage for both improvements in program quality over time and, in the case of programs that show promise for effectiveness, generating a stronger and more targeted argument for programs. A further goal of the toolkit is to create greater consistency in how youth outcomes are measured across programs.