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SAMPLE - Little Elm - "Student Survey" School Report - June 2021

Report Contents

  • KEY RATINGS
  • EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
    • Executive Summary Percent Positives
  • LEARNING MODEL & COVID-19 EFFECT
    • COVID-19 Effect Average Ratings
    • COVID-19 Effect Percent 3's
    • Learning Model & COVID-19 Effect Response Distributions
  • ENGAGEMENT
    • Engagement Percentile Charts
    • Engagement Percent Positives
    • Engagement Response Distributions
  • ACADEMIC CHALLENGE
    • Academic Challenge Percentile Charts
    • Academic Challenge Percent Positives
    • Academic Challenge Response Distributions
  • INSTRUCTIONAL METHODS
    • Instructional Methods Percentile Charts
    • Instructional Methods Percent Positives
    • Instructional Methods Response Distributions
  • CULTURE
    • Culture Percentile Charts
    • Culture Percent Positives
    • Culture Response Distributions
  • BELONGING
    • Belonging Percentile Charts
    • Belonging Percent Positives
    • Belonging Response Distributions
    • Bullying Bar Charts
  • RELATIONSHIPS
    • Relationships Percentile Charts
    • Relationships Percent Positives
    • Relationships Response Distributions
  • SCHOOL SAFETY
    • School Safety Percentile Charts
    • School Safety Percent Positives
    • School Safety Response Distribution
  • DISTANCE LEARNING
    • Distance Learning Percentile Charts
    • Distance Learning Percent Positives
    • Distance Learning Response Distributions
  • IN STUDENTS' OWN WORDS
    • Strengths
    • Areas for Improvement
  • APPENDIX
    • Response Count
    • Comparative Dataset
    • Respondent & School Information
    • Methodology
    • Survey Questions
    • Chart Types
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Methodology

SURVEY ADMINISTRATION

Students participated in the YouthTruth Student Survey during a multi-week survey window. The survey was administered online, with administration coordinated by school personnel.

 

REPORTING THRESHOLD

Throughout this report, we remove any results reflecting responses from fewer than five respondents in order to preserve respondent confidentiality. If fewer than five respondents of any given subgroup at your school respond to a particular question, the average rating of that particular subgroup for that question will not appear in your report. If fewer than five respondents of any given subgroup at your school respond to the entire survey, the average ratings of that particular subgroup will not appear separately for any questions, although they will contribute to your overall ratings.

 

ABSOLUTE VS. RELATIVE RATINGS

Throughout this report, you will see a number of references to the "typical" YouthTruth school. These guidelines describe our approach to characterizing schools’ results relative to the “typical” school.

  • For likert questions (1-3 or 1-5 scale): Results are described as “higher than typical” when they fall at or above the 60th percentile in  the comparative dataset – that is, higher than 60 percent of other elementary schools that have participated in YouthTruth. Conversely, results are described as “lower than typical” when they fall below the 40th percentile – or, lower than 60 percent of other participating elementary schools.
  • For questions allowing multiple responses (e.g., Do any of the following make it hard for you to do your best in school? – Home life; extracurricular commitments; etc.): Results are considered “higher than typical” when they are at least 8 percentage points higher than the results for the median school in the comparative dataset, and “lower than typical” when they are at least 8 percentage points lower than the median.
  • For categorical questions allowing only one response (e.g., Do you want to go to college? – Yes; No; Maybe; I’m not sure): Results are considered “higher than typical” when they are at least 8 percentage points higher than the results for the average YouthTruth school, and “lower than typical” when they are at least 8 percentage points lower than the average.

 

COHORT AND SUBGROUP COMPARISONS

To help make comparisons more contextually meaningful, you can toggle to compare your results to a subset of participants with similar characteristics. Groups that are similar to your school's characteristics are marked with an asterisk. Most schools participate in the YouthTruth surveys alongside other schools within their local school district or network. When this is the case, schools can compare their results to those of other schools in their district or network. Reports also include a set of comparison groups that allow for comparisons across school-level indicators related to poverty, school size, school type, and geography. These groups include:

Cohort Name Description Number of schools
High poverty schools Greater than or equal to 70% of a district or school's students receiving free or reduced price lunch 252
Rural schools Schools not located in an urbanized area 100
Suburban schools Schools located in an urbanized area, but outside a principal city 358
Small city schools Schools located in an urbanized area and in a principal city with a population of less than 250,000 103
Large city schools * Schools located in an urbanized area and in a principal city with a population greater than or equal to 250,000 105
Small size schools Less than or equal to 150 students 122
Large size schools * Greater than or equal to 600 students 25
Charter schools Publicly funded, independently managed schools established under the terms of a charter with a local or national authority 41
PBL schools Schools utilizing project-based-learning models as part of curriculum 42
STEM schools Schools utilizing a curriculum focusing primarily on science, technology, engineering, and math 31
COVID-19 Schools Schools that fielded surveys in the time of COVID-19 (after March 2020). 335
Distance Learning Schools Schools that fielded surveys in the time of COVID-19 (beginning in Fall 2020) while operating under a distance learning model. 190
In-Person Learning Schools Schools that fielded surveys in the time of COVID-19 (beginning in Fall 2020) while operating under an in-person learning model. 20
Hybrid Learning Schools Schools that fielded surveys in the time of COVID19 (beginning in Fall 2020) while operating under a hybrid learning model (with students engaged in both distance learning and in-person learning). 103

*Your school is in this cohort (School Reports only).

The four geographic cohorts are defined based on collapsed categories using NCES locale codes. For more information on NCES methodology, please visit http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/rural_locales.asp.

Respondents are also asked a series of demographic questions, the responses from which are used to create subgroup comparisons that you can toggle throughout your report.

 

SUMMARY MEASURES

YouthTruth survey questions are grouped into summary measures, each of which captures data from statistically related questions. To identify these summary measures, YouthTruth uses factor analysis, a statistical tool that analyzes underlying patterns in the data.

In your report, subsections titled, for example, “Engagement Questions” include the survey questions that comprise the summary measure, or factor, describing Engagement. Subsections titled “Related Questions” contain survey questions that are thematically but not statistically related to the factor.

For the middle and high school Overall School Experience surveys, certain summary measures were developed after the launch of the survey. Therefore the number of schools in the comparative dataset for those questions. For more information about the development of summary measures and the analytical techniques used, please refer to the YouthTruth Design and Methodology Report here.

 

Throughout this report, for any question with fewer than five responses, we do not display data at the school- or subgroup-level in order to preserve student confidentiality. For example, if fewer than five ninth-graders at [schoolshort] respond to a particular question, the average rating of [schoolshort] ninth-graders for that question will not appear.


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