1. Office of School Improvement Teaching and Learning Survey March 8, 2012 Jo Ann Burkholder ---------------------------------------------- Conference call-in information Phone number – 1-866–842-5779 Conference Code – 3305482954 Press *6 to mute your phone Press #6 to unmute

2. The ultimate goal in school improvement is for the people attached to the school to drive its continuous improvement for the sake of their own children and students. - Dr. Sam Redding

3. Today’s Agenda 1. Welcome 2. Introductions 3. Brief History 4. Survey Development 5. Demonstration of the Online Dashboard 6. Questions and Answers

4. Objectives Participants will: gain an understanding of the Teaching and Learning Surveys’ constructs examine the online dashboard understand how the survey results can be used for continuous improvement planning

5. Pride Surveys Story Began in 1982 More than 13 million students More than 58,000 school level surveys More than 30 statewide surveys All 50 states have administered a Pride at some level Other countries – Belize, Costa Rico, Canada, Malta, Panama etc. Check out http://pridesurveys.com/About.html for more infohttp://pridesurveys.com/About.html

6. Development Learning and Teaching Surveys:

7. Development Team

8. Milestones of Teaching Survey

9. Milestones of Teaching Survey (TS) Based on original Pride Faculty/Staff Survey December 2008 - Initial planning with Center for Teaching Quality Spring 2009 - Pilot survey of ~2,000 teachers Spring 2009 – Development of potential item pool (>700 items) July/August 2009 – Cognitive pre-testing in the state of Washington

10. Milestones of Teaching Survey Fall 2009 – Completion of a 2-tiered Teaching Survey questionnaire Winter/Spring 2010 – 35,868 teachers completed revised 2-tiered questionnaires Summer 2010 - Analysis of TS instrument psychometric properties, including scale norms, reliabilities, and factor analyses

11. Milestones of Teaching Survey Fall 2010 - Revision of TS based on 2010 data Winter/Spring 2011 – Administration of revised Teaching Survey

12. Topics Covered on the Teaching Survey

13. Milestones of Learning Survey

14. 14 Milestones of Learning Survey (LS) Winter/Spring 2010 – 278,830 students completed a 2- tiered questionnaire Fall 2010 - Based on data revisions made to LS instrument Spring 2011 – Administration of revised Learning Survey –Grades 6 through 8 with state support (N=141,792) –Grades 9 through 12 with local support (N=59,455) Summer 2011 - Analysis of Learning Survey instrument psychometric properties, including scale norms, reliabilities, and factor analyses –Finalization of survey instrument –Introduction of Learning/Teaching Dashboard 14

15. Topics Covered in the Learning Survey

16. Validity and Reliability 30 years of experience in:

17. Peer reviewed journals trust Pride Surveys Data to be valid and reliable.

18. Designated by Congress as an official indicator of adolescent behavior in the United States. The Congressional Record, October 19, 1998, Page H11228

19. The Teaching and Learning Surveys have been vetted and posted on the U.S. Department of Education's (USDE) Safe and Supportive Schools website.

20. Where is the Survey Used? Page County Public Schools, Virginia Ohio Mississippi Pennsylvania Alabama Southern Regional Education Board

21. How the Surveys Can be Used Pinpointing strengths and weakness of key variables Improving teacher retention Measuring change in behavior with longitudinal data Measuring data that directly affects test scores like student engagement and teacher respect Satisfies many grant funding requirements Improving School Culture/Climate Improving Safety School Improvement Plans Comparing Virginia school indicators with LS / TS results (coming soon)

22. 22 Take a Test Drive of the Dashboard http://dbdemo.pridesurveys.com 22

23. 23 Recommended Viewing American Teacher Documentary –Narrated by Matt Damon –Including Dr. Tony Thacker –Watch the trailer –Rent or Purchase –http://www.theteachersalaryproject.org/http://www.theteachersalaryproject.org/ 23

24. 24 For More Information Contact Pride Surveys –1(800)279-6361 –wendy.mcgrath@pridesurveys.comwendy.mcgrath@pridesurveys.com 24

25. JO ANN BURKHOLDER, COORDINATOR STUDENT ASSISTANCE SYSTEMS PHONE: 804-371-7586 E-MAIL: JOANN.BURKHOLDER@DOE.VIRGINIA.GOV JOANN.BURKHOLDER@DOE.VIRGINIA.GOV 25

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27. A Round of Applause To You!