Staff members participated in the YouthTruth Staff Survey during a multi-week survey window. The survey was administered online, with administration coordinated by school personnel.
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.
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.
Throughout this report, you are able to disaggregate data based on subgroups of people with similar characteristics.
Results for likert questions (1-3 or 1-5 scale) with percentile charts are displayed from highest to lowest rating for categorical subgroups (gender, race, special education status, etc.), and are displayed in order for variables that are ordinal (grade, years at school, student-reported grades, etc.)
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.), which are displayed in bar charts, categorical subgroups (gender, race, special education status, etc.) are shown in order of highest to lowest proportion of the population. Ordinal subgroups (grade, years at school, student-reported grades, etc.) are shown in order.
For percent positive charts (showing the percent 4’s and 5’s), categorical subgroups (gender, race, special education status, etc.) are shown in order of highest to lowest proportion of the population. Ordinal subgroups (grade, years at school, student-reported grades, etc.) are shown in order.
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 CA schools Schools located in this state. 123 Alternative schools Schools that (1) address needs of students that typically cannot be met in a regular school, (2) provide nontraditional education, (3) serve as adjuncts to regular school, or (4) fall outside the categories of regular, special education, or vocational education. 1 Charter schools Publicly funded, independently managed schools established under the terms of a charter with a local or national authority. 27 High poverty schools Greater than or equal to 70% of a district or school's students receiving free or reduced price lunch. 78 Large city schools Schools located in an urbanized area and in a principal city with a population greater than or equal to 250,000. 33 Large size schools Greater than or equal to 800 students. 51 PBL schools Schools utilizing project-based-learning models as part of curriculum. 23 Rural schools Schools not located in an urbanized area. 57 Small city schools Schools located in an urbanized area and in a principal city with a population of less than 100,000. 32 Small size schools Less than or equal to 200 students. 42 STEM schools Schools utilizing a curriculum focusing primarily on science, technology, engineering, and math. 10 Suburban schools Schools located in an urbanized area, but outside a principal city. 107
*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 https://nces.ed.gov/programs/edge/docs/LOCALE_CLASSIFICATIONS.pdf.
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.
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 Student 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.
[NH1]This is a nice to have. Let’s see what work will be required of Mike to make this happen.
