The Character Assessment Scale – mini (CASm) can be used with your church, or with your Christian business/department or school/class. The test is totally free, online, and private, returning instant feedback to the email address each test-taker gives. (For privacy sake, that email address can belong to a neighbor, friend, or relative who agrees to forward the report back to the test-taker.) The CASm presents 72 test items in a modified True-False format, and can be taken in just 15 minutes. It also asks ten non-identifying demographic questions about how they are living their lives.
The test is totally free, online, and private, returning instant feedback to the email address each test-taker gives. (For privacy sake, that email address can belong to a neighbor, friend, or relative who agrees to forward the report back to the test-taker.) No one can ever see the identity or the test scores of test-takers, unless they forward their reports, or copy them for someone. Their feedback will only give their 27 test scores, and not how they answered the ten demographic questions. WELL Inc. will not collect or save email addresses or even IP addresses given or used by test-takers. Unless we are asked to do so, our website will not save these addresses for visitors to our site, so they can download materials anonymously.
At no cost of time or money for training or materials, as your group’s leader or leadership team, you can ask or require people in your group or organization to take this test. You can explain how it is designed for their own inspiration, which will inspire the entire organization. It can either be taken at church, or on their own time at home.
Free information given to you: when they put your email address into the Group Administrator Email questionon their test, you can get a free report emailed to you at the end of your time period for testing, with summary information telling you:
Motivations: If taking the test is optional, you can explain the health benefits of taking the test for both them and their loved ones. (If a group is judged to need more incentives, perhaps a sponsor of this program can provide compensation.) Test feedback will encourage test-takers to discuss their test feedback with someone they know and trust, describing several ways they can do so.
Quality Control: It helps to give this test at regular intervals, to assess the spiritual health of your church or business over time, and to guide your plans for change. If you provide counseling or pastoral care for your members, test-takers can be told that when they send or bring their feedback into a counseling session, it will help them understand their problems a lot clearer, and soon see better solutions.