Bullying is not an isolated event; it is what a peer culture permits. Upstander measures the harm and the protection as one system, so a school can see whether peers interrupt, whether adults are trusted, and whether reporting is believed to work.
domains: three describing risk, four describing the protective system around it.
school-day recall window, answered on a five-point frequency scale from Never to Very often.
design goal: a measurable move in what a bystander does next.
Learners answer seven domains on a 30-school-day recall window. Three describe risk; four describe the protection around it, so a school never reads a bullying figure without the bystander, adult and reporting context beside it.
Grade 9 · 214 responses · 30-day recall
Victimisation
Risk
Bullying Behaviour
Risk
Cyberbullying
Risk
Protective system
Bystander Behaviour
Protective
Teacher Protection
Protective
School Climate
Protective
Help-Seeking
Protective
One annual census, designed so learners can answer honestly, read at class and grade level.
Learners answer seven domains on a five-point frequency scale, with a 30-school-day recall window.
Items are shuffled on every administration so a learner cannot recognise which block is asking what.
Scores are calculated from the hidden mapping table, with reverse-coded items corrected first.
Risk and protective domains are banded together, so a low bystander score sits next to the harm it permits.
The paired belonging curriculum carries the same domains into Tier-1 advisory delivery.
Risk and protective domains are held in one instrument, because a school that only counts harm has no way of knowing whether its culture is getting safer.
Domain mapping lives in the backend, never in the survey order, and reverse-coded items are distributed through the set. Honesty collapses the moment a learner recognises the structure.
The design goal is a measurable move in what a peer does next: interrupt, comfort, report, or look away. The paired curriculum is written to that goal.
Results are read at class and grade level. Upstander does not name a bully or a victim, and a disclosure belongs in Care, not in a screen.
Signature feature
Domain mapping is held in the backend, never in the survey order, and no two consecutive items come from the same domain where the sequence allows it. Reverse-coded items are distributed randomly through the set. A learner reading down the page cannot work out which block is asking about them being bullied and which is asking about them bullying.
That matters because the honesty of a bullying screen collapses the moment the learner recognises the structure. Domain scores are calculated from the hidden mapping table, so randomisation costs nothing in reporting.
Paired curriculum
A paired belonging curriculum for Tier-1 delivery, written to the same domains.
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