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Rockport trustees press for deeper survey breakdowns to guide policy and grants
Summary
Committee members asked for participation rates and requested more granular breakdowns from the data firm (John Snow Inc.) to judge validity; they discussed using the survey to guide advisory programming, curriculum alignment and grant applications.
During Q&A about the youth health survey, committee members pressed presenters for participation and methodological detail. The presenters said participation ranged from about 60% to 86% by grade, that the 11th grade had lower participation because of field trips, and that the survey was voluntary and anonymous. "Participation rates ranged from 60 percent to 86 percent," one presenter said.
Members emphasized the limitations of small cohorts and suggested the administration request follow-up analyses from John Snow Inc. to produce disaggregations (for example, 'all of the time' versus 'sometimes') and correlations across items (such as overlap between in-person and cyber bullying). Administrators agreed they could request additional vendor-supplied crosstabs and stressed the value of using the information in advisory groups and teacher PLCs before proposing formal policy changes.
