1. Five Fundamentals for School Success Consortium on Chicago School Research 2007 Individual Survey Reports Presented by Holly Hart

2. Today’s Objectives Learn how to read and interpret the graphs Consider how results can be used for planning and action

3. Background Biannual surveys of students, teachers and principals Content developed over the years Developed with broad input and consultation

4. Survey Administration Administered in late spring, 2007 6 th through 10 th grade students* All teachers and principals* Results are confidential

5. Survey Returns Elementary Schools –77,724 students (6-8 th grade) –11,582 teachers High Schools –39,945 students (9-10 th grade) –4,284 teachers

6. Who Gets a Report? Schools with at least 42% of teachers responding and/or Schools with at least 50% of students responding = 587 schools (92%)

7. Framework of the Essential Supports and Contextual Resources for School Improvement

8. Impact of the Essential Supports Schools strong in 3-5 essential supports were 10 times more likely to show increasing reading gains than schools strong in only 1-2 supports.

9. Impact in High Schools In recent report, What Matters for Staying On- Track and Graduating in Chicago Public High Schools… Grades, failures and absence rates were better than expected, given the students served by the school, in schools with (1) supportive relationships between teachers and students, and (2) a perception among students that the work they were doing in high school was preparing them for the future.

10. What is a Scale? Combines questions that –Fit together conceptually (same idea) –Fit together statistically Summarizes the data More reliable than a single item

11. Program Coherence Teachers agree or disagree that: You can see continuity from one program to another Many special programs come and go Once we start a new program, we follow up with it Curriculum and instruction are well coordinated across grades We have so many programs that I can’t keep track Curriculum and instruction are consistent among teachers in the same grade Coordination/focus of instruction has changed for better in last 2 years

12. Value of Your School Reports Not what CCSR thinks but… –How the teachers and students from your school responded Anonymous responses More comprehensive view Focused areas of inquiry and methodologically sound scales

13. Essential Supports for School Improvement Five Fundamentals for School Success

14. CPS Five Fundamentals

15. CCSR Individual School Report

16. Reading Five Fundamentals Diagram 5 colors based on distance from CPS average Lack of data

17. Performance on Five Fundamentals Your school’s unique performance on five fundamentals Quick impression of performance Each box represents the average of all scales Also shows performance on sub- components of each fundamental Compared to CPS norms

18. Digging Deeper – Ambivalence Elementary

20. Reading Individual scales Performance is more mixed than overall diagram implies Some strengths, some weaknesses (Academic press, Academic Engagement, etc)

21. Low-Response Rate Example

22. Two Reports Summary Details

23. Example of a profile

24. Program Coherence Schools like yours System

25. Details Report Lists all the questions that went into the scale Compares your school’s responses on each question to the system Shows the variation among your students/teachers on each scale Gives more information about why your school may be high or low on a scale

26. Program Coherence System

27. Program Coherence 1None 2Little 3Moderate 4Strong

28. Program Coherence 1None2 Little3 Moderate4 Strong

29. Conclusion Individual Survey Reports: Can help you learn more about strengths and weaknesses at your school Can provide a tool for identifying and explaining issues that you would like to address

30. For more information Consortium Survey Office –773-834-3629 –ccsr-survey@uchicago.educcsr-survey@uchicago.edu Actual surveys and more information on our website: http://ccsr.uchicago.edu