Divorce Education Assessment Collaborative

The Divorce Education Assessment Collaborative (DEAC) has developed a standardized evaluation tool for parenting education programs focused on divorce, separation, or coparenting across households. There are pre- and post-tests of this assessment tool available, as well as content-specific, supplementary measures. Upon request, our team can customize the DEAC assessment tool to better fit the specific needs of your program.

Purpose

Most states require families to complete divorce education programs to promote post-divorce family resiliency. However, programs vary greatly in content, timing, delivery method, and effectiveness. One of our core goals for the DEAC is to have multiple programs, across several states, participate so that we can collect the same information with a standardized tool about participants, divorce education materials, and divorce-related behaviors, to identify best practices for effective parent education programs.

Services We Offer

• Provide a standardized evaluation tool for parent education courses focused on divorce, separation, or coparenting across households
• Create evaluation plans tailored to your program
• Conduct external program evaluations
• Review and certify curricula of parent education courses focused on divorce, separation, or coparenting across households
• Highlight partners who have successfully utilized the DEAC or who have curricula certified

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What is on the survey?

Our pretest assesses the following topics:

• Perceived adjustment to the separation/divorce
• Custody satisfaction
• Current coparental relationship
• Coparental interaction
• Perception of current custody agreements
• Perception of financial agreements
• Intentions to relitigate
• Intentions to coparent
• General demographic questions
• General questions about other coparent
• Option for both specific knowledge and supplemental constructs

Our posttest assesses the following topics:

• Perceived adjustment to the separation/divorce
• Custody satisfaction
• Perception of current custody agreements
• Perception of financial agreements
• Intentions to relitigate
• How this course might influence their future coparenting practices
• Experiences with the course
• Barriers to taking the course
• Next steps in their coparenting process
• Option for both specific content knowledge and supplemental constructs

Knowledge Constructs:

• Process of divorce and breakup related changes
• Navigating common post-divorce issues
• Coparenting plans
• Communication
• Available resources
• General parenting practices and child development
• Children's coping post-divorce
• Conflict management

Supplementary Constructs:

• Education demographics
• Military demographics
• Expectation of the course
• Frequency of arguments and hurtful words
• Boundary ambiguity for divorced adults
• Coparental communication methods
• Couple conflict
• Depression
• Coparental interaction