Openness to Diversity and Challenge Scale

Subgroup Size

Entire group

Duration

5 minutes

External Cost

No

Source

Pascarella, E. T., Edison, M., Nora, A., Hagedorn, L. S., & Terenzini, P. T. (1996). Influences on students' openness to diversity and challenge in the first year of college. The Journal of Higher Education, 67(2), 174-195.

Tags:

  1. Assessment
  2. assessment instruments
  3. comfort with difference
  4. conflict resolution
  5. emotional resilience
  6. formative assessment
  7. openness

This seven question survey is intended to measure the degree to which a college student is comfortable with being challenged by difference.  This definition of openness is very different in attitude and behavioral outcomes from "openness to experience" -- which appears to be how many young non-scholars prefer to operationalize the phrase "being open to difference."