This is a proprietary instrument developed from the supportive mindset of a clinical psychologist interested in transformational learning.  Among the 17 things it measures are Openness, Empathy and Self-Awareness. Because this instrument collects a great deal of demographic data, and because it offers site license pricing, Purdue has found it particularly useful for large scale and institutional level assessment (it also works just fine on small n programs).

The original 20-question, 4-factor cultural intelligence scale, created by a multinational and multi-ethnic research team, still has a lot to offer and is one of the very few ICL instruments out there which measures motivation.  It also measures communication behavior  and meta-cognition, which (according to some scholars) is a form of self-awareness. The 20-question version is free if one has access to an academic library and can download the referenced article.

The GENE, which is available for free, can be said to measure lack of empathy and lack of openness towards persons of another ethnicity, culture or race; also known as ethnocentricity. 

One of the most-widely used & cited intercultural competence assessment instruments, the IDI measure one's stage of ethnocentricity or ethno-relativism (lack of ethnocentrism). For purposes of this collection, we define ethnocentrism as the lack of openness and intercultural empathy. Though proprietary, the cost-per-individual is (as of December 2023) lower than a number of other proprietary instruments in the global/intercultural/inclusion domain, particularly for educators.

This proprietary assessment instrument measures: 1. Continuous learning disposition (self-awareness & explorativeness --similar to curiosity). 2. Interpersonal engagement (world orientation & relationship development --related to empathy). 3. Hardiness (positive regard & emotional resilience). Results can be sent to the learner automatically (e.g. without the need for a debrief by a qualified facilitator) and include an action plan feature.

Also worth considering is a sister instrument by the same instrument development team, the Inclusion Competencies Scale, which measures attentiveness to power, as well as self-awareness and intercultural empathy.

This assessment measures six factors of personality as defined by the HEXACO model: Honesty-Humility, Emotionality, Extraversion, Agreeability, Conscientiousness, Openness. It is available for free to educators and researchers and has been translated into 22 languages!

This free tool was created to investigate student development at a higher ed institution with a public affairs mission.  It measures community engagement, ethical leadership and cultural competency.  As such, it may be a particularly good fit for overseas and domestic service learning endeavors. It considers cultural competence as a single factor, but the questions which measure this construct probe communication, openness and willingness to engage with difference.

This unusual (and brilliant, in our opinion) survey was developed as a post-only instrument for use with returnees from semester or year-long study abroad.  It is based on Bennett's original six-stage developmental model of intercultural sensitivity & it's available in its entirety as an appendix to an open-source scholarly article. As such, it measures presence or absence of ethnocentricity according to a multi-stage model, much like the better-known IDI. Again, we define ethnocentricity as the lack of openness and intercultural empathy.