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What methodology was used to create the Student LPI?

Student LPI Self Assessment

A 30-item self-assessment instrument that measures the frequency of specific leadership behaviors on a 5-point scale. Completed either online or in print by an individual Student Leader, it takes approximately 10–15 minutes start-to-finish.

Student LPI Observer Assessment

A 30-item assessment instrument that provides 360º feedback on the frequency of specific leadership behaviors on a 5-point frequency scale. Completed either online or in print by individuals selected by the Student Leader or the Administrator to participate in the process, it takes approximately 10–15 minutes start-to-finish.

While the Student LPI Self Assessment provides for self-measurement, the greater value in the assessment comes when also using Student LPI Observers. This unique measurement tool collects valuable 360º feedback from teachers, coaches, student advisors, teammates, fellow club members, coworkers, or others who have direct experience in observing the individual Student Leader in a leadership role or any leadership capacity.

Using the Student LPI Online Web-based system, the student completes an online assessment. Each assessment contains 30 statements describing specific leadership behaviors, rated on a 1 to 5 point frequency scale, and takes approximately 10–15 minutes to complete.

Student LPI Self Online
Using an access code—either purchased directly online or distributed by the instructor—Student Leaders can log on and take the Student LPI Self Assessment online completely on their own. They can save their progress if they need to pause and continue later. When they are finished, they will receive their own rich, computer-generated feedback report.

Student LPI 360 Online
The Student LPI Administrator (i.e., the instructor or facilitator) sets up the Student LPI assessment for each student, establishing due dates, as appropriate, and designating to an individual Student Leader the task of completing the assessment. Once an assessment is created, Administrators may retain responsibility for all administrative duties related to the assessment, may temporarily share some or all of the administrative responsibilities of this assessment with another Administrator, or may permanently transfer all future administration of this assessment to another Administrator.

Through the use of electronic tokens—either purchased from a Wiley sales representative, directly online, or from an authorized LPI reseller—Student Leaders can take the Student LPI Self Assessment, and ask others to participate in this process by completing the Student LPI Observer Assessment. Observers typically include teachers, coaches, student advisors, teammates, fellow club members, coworkers, or fellow members of a church group or other community or civic organization with direct experience of the individual in a leadership role or any leadership capacity.

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Both the Student LPI Self Online and the Student LPI 360 Online are research-based and reliable tools to measure frequency of student leadership behavior.

The Student LPI 360 Online offers administrators time-saving methods for reporting results, communicating with student leaders, and working with all of their students' Student LPI assessments from one central location. In this streamlined environment:

• All student assessments can be easily created, tracked, and managed.
• Assessment responses are accurately recorded. 
• Scoring is automated.
• Feedback reports can be produced immediately and are accessible from any Web-enabled computer.
• Data is stored for up to four years so consecutive assessments can be done to measure progress.
• Up to 500 leader names can be uploaded from a single spreadsheet.
• Data and administration duties can be shared between assessment administrators.

In contrast, the Student LPI Self Online is a self-assessment only, with no Observer Assessment. It is self-administered by students themselves, instead of by an administrator, facilitator, or instructor. Feedback reports are shared only with the student, so the instructor does not have access to the student data, and cannot combine or compare student data or generate Group Reports.

In addition, when using the Student LPI Self Online, raw data is not stored and cannot be downloaded as a tab delimited format as it can with the Student LPI 360 Online. While students can access PDFs of their last five reports, there is no Reassessment or Comparative report that shows change over time. The Student LPI 360 Online is recommended for that.

Because the Student LPI Self Online and Student LPI 360 Online are different platforms, data cannot be transferred between the two. If you plan to have your students take the Self-Assessment and then later retake the Self-Assessment as well as obtain Observer Assessments, and you would like to combine this data into a Reassessment Report, it is advised to use the Student LPI 360 Online for both instances.

While the Student LPI Self Online provides for self-measurement, the greater value in the assessment is to use the Student LPI 360 Online to create a genuine 360º measurement. This unique measurement tool collects valuable feedback from teachers, coaches, student advisors, teammates, fellow club members, coworkers, or others who have direct experience in observing the individual student leader in a leadership role or any leadership capacity.

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Please note:

• Access codes for the Student LPI Self Online are non-refundable. Unused access codes do not expire.
• The license term for each Student LPI 360 Online token purchased is 12 months. Unused tokens expire at the end of the 12-month term. Tokens are non-refundable.

The Student LPI Self Online and the Student LPI 360 Online platforms support Windows XP, Windows Vista, Windows 7, Mac OS X, and Linux, with support for Firefox 3.0 and IE 6.0 and above. Javascript must be enabled.

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For security purposes, Student LPI Online is set to time-out after approximately 45 minutes of inactivity, ending your session. You will be required to log in again to restart your session.

We have created a justification kit to help you get the buy-in and funding you need from supervisors and other decision makers. These tools will help you justify the need for and importance of using the Student LPI to measure your students' leadership behavior. Go to the Student LPI funding and justification kit now.

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