Return individual school survey profiles to stimulate local school improvement discussions¶

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Evidence · no claims cited

Description¶

The Consortium returned school-level survey results to each school with a sufficient response rate so that school community members could better understand how teachers perceive their school and students, and prepared materials to help schools and councils interpret their profiles. Teachers reported that local results could be useful to PPACs and LSCs for serious reflection, and principals expressed unanimous interest in analyzing their own school data. This strategy uses disaggregated survey feedback as a diagnostic tool for local improvement efforts.

Design Implications¶

Context¶

Requirements¶

• A school response rate of 50 percent or more to receive an individual school profile
• Interpretation materials to help schools and councils read their profiles

Constraints¶

• The report notes understanding from profiles "provides the base for enhanced local efforts at improvement" but does not itself demonstrate improved outcomes

Target Learners¶

• Local school councils, PPACs, principals, and teacher teams in Chicago Public Schools elementary schools

Target Learning Goals¶

• Diagnosing areas where reform is working and where more attention is needed; building shared understanding of teacher perceptions

Related Strategies¶

• Distribute report review across staff committees to streamline school self-analysis
• Use survey profiles, discussion questions, and the Details report to guide school improvement deliberations
• Use individualized survey reports disaggregated by student type to target AVID program improvement areas

Examples¶

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Key Sources¶

• Easton, J. Q., Bryk, A. S., Driscoll, M., Kotsakis, J. G., Sebring, P. A., & van der Raeg, A. J. (1991). Charting Reform: The Teachers' Turn — Report No. 1 on a Survey of CPS Elementary School Teachers. Consortium on Chicago School Research. https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publications/charting-reform-teachers-turn