ATE Superweek Impact Assessment – details
Purpose: ATE is conducting a research project to measure whether children who attend a Superweek experience changes in mindfulness, empathy, and self-esteem following their holiday. This is part of our impact assessment which may help ATE to secure future funding for our charitable work. The results may also contribute to our quality assurance processes and potential future research. Participation is entirely voluntary: your child’s responses, and whether they take part or not, will have no impact at all on future attendance or volunteering.
Tools: We use the Child and Adolescent Mindfulness Measure, the Basic Empathy Scale, and the Social Self-Esteem Scale, which are all well-respected and reliable tools. We will ask your child to respond three times: Stage One will be shortly before their Superweek, Stage Two will be shortly after their Superweek, and Stage Three will be three months after their Superweek has ended. The survey should take around 6-8 minutes to complete.
Processing: Survey responses will be incorporated into a data set by an external data processor after Stage Three. Any participant who only completes Stage One will not be included in the data set. The external data processor, who will have no operational involvement with ATE, will remove all personal identifying data from the data set, meaning that ATE staff will be unable to identify individual respondents.
Consent: Submission of a completed questionnaire implies consent to participate. Should you or your child wish to withdraw consent, you can withdraw all your data up to the point of anonymisation (1st December) by contacting dataprocessor@superweeks.co.uk and providing your child’s full name and stating that you withdraw consent; no reason or explanation is needed.
Participation: Please go through the questions with your child to make sure they understand them. Please do not tell your child what, specifically, we are interested in measuring, as this could bias their responses. If appropriate, you should allow your child to complete the form without your supervision as this could also affect the way they respond to the questions. If you have more than one child attending Superweeks, please submit a separate response for each child. If your child is attending more than one summer Superweek there is no need to complete the form for each separate holiday.