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District presents shift in local indicators: staff weigh SDQ survey versus resiliency check-in
Summary
District staff told the board they are considering replacing the Resiliency Check-In survey with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire for the California dashboard's local indicators and will review the differences over the summer.
District staff presented the local indicators that the district will submit with its California School Dashboard materials and described a change in the student survey instrument used to measure school climate and student well-being.
The presenter, a district staff member, said Miss Wilkins was on vacation and would not present. The presenter said the district used to use the Resiliency Check-In (RCI) survey and this year staff recommended using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). "In the past, we've done the resiliency check-in survey, which gets us very particular kind of data. This year, our PSWs were recommending that we move over transition to what's called the SDQ, the strengths and difficulties questionnaire," the presenter said, adding that the SDQ "looks different, and it's something we'll explore, over the summer."
Board members asked which method produced more actionable information. The presenter said the RCI offered more specific follow-up prompts (for example, whether a student felt unsafe at a particular location or time) while the SDQ presents broader measures across emotional symptoms, peer-relationship problems, prosocial behavior, safety and access to health care. The presenter recited subgroup results from the SDQ-based reporting: English learners (EL) showed about 78% scoring in the average/slightly raised range for emotional symptoms, while African American students were about 87.5% in that range; schoolwide pro-social behavior registered about 85.5% and one subgroup was reported at 69% for prosocial behavior; staff said students who are EL and students with disabilities tended to be further outside the normal range on several indicators.
The presenter said the district will review the differences over the summer and consider whether to retain the SDQ, return to the RCI, or use a hybrid that preserves RCI elements the board finds most actionable. The item was presented as information rather than an action item.
Board members asked for follow-up and staff indicated they would analyze the survey instruments and return with recommendations about which instrument to use and how to interpret subgroup results for targeted interventions.
