Assessment Resources
Access scientifically validated tools for assessing individual and institutional virtue development. Our resources support measurement of specific virtues, campus character climate, and classroom-level integration of virtue.
This subscale captures how individuals apply reflective thinking, humility, and discernment in moral and personal decision-making. It emphasizes wisdom not...
This subscale evaluates how individuals regulate impulses, maintain moderation, and pursue disciplined living. Temperance is understood as a protective virtue,...
The instrument is designed to evaluate how individuals typically think, feel, and act, rather than how they believe they should...
This subscale evaluates how consistently individuals express love through empathy, service, forgiveness, and compassion across various contexts. It captures love...
This subscale evaluates how strongly individuals act and identify with justice-oriented values and behaviors. It assesses personal integrity, moral courage,...
This subscale captures how individuals experience and express hope as a sustaining and centering virtue. It examines one’s ability to...
The Seven Virtues Scale (Faith Subscale) is a psychometric tool created to measure the theological virtue of faith—understood as trust,...
The Seven Virtues Scale (Courage Subscale) is a psychometric instrument designed to measure the degree to which individuals exhibit the...
This article introduces the Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire (SCSORF) and provides preliminary information on the instrument. The...
The Seven Virtues Scale: Wisdom Subscale
This subscale captures how individuals apply reflective thinking, humility, and discernment in moral and personal decision-making. It emphasizes wisdom not as mere intelligence, but as...
The Seven Virtues Scale: Temperance Subscale
This subscale evaluates how individuals regulate impulses, maintain moderation, and pursue disciplined living. Temperance is understood as a protective virtue, preventing excess and fostering moral...
The Seven Virtues Scale (Short Version)
The instrument is designed to evaluate how individuals typically think, feel, and act, rather than how they believe they should behave.
The Seven Virtues Scale: Love Subscale
This subscale evaluates how consistently individuals express love through empathy, service, forgiveness, and compassion across various contexts. It captures love not as emotion alone but...
The Seven Virtues Scale: Justice Subscale
This subscale evaluates how strongly individuals act and identify with justice-oriented values and behaviors. It assesses personal integrity, moral courage, and concern for societal well-being.
The Seven Virtues Scale: Hope Subscale
This subscale captures how individuals experience and express hope as a sustaining and centering virtue. It examines one’s ability to maintain optimism, perseverance, and trust...
The Seven Virtues Scale: Faith Subscale
The Seven Virtues Scale (Faith Subscale) is a psychometric tool created to measure the theological virtue of faith—understood as trust, belief, and partnership with God...
The Seven Virtues Scale: Courage Subscale
The Seven Virtues Scale (Courage Subscale) is a psychometric instrument designed to measure the degree to which individuals exhibit the moral virtue of courage—defined as...
The Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire
This article introduces the Santa Clara Strength of Religious Faith Questionnaire (SCSORF) and provides preliminary information on the instrument. The SCSORF is a quick, easy...






