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Use Your Voice Survey
Have Your Voice HEARD
Use Your Voice Survey Initiative
Elementary School Results 2005-2006 and 2006-2007
High School, Middle School, Alternative School Results 2005-2006 and 2006-2007
How to Read and Analyze the Survey Data
| | About the Surveys..
In January 2006, OUSD created the Use Your Voice Survey initiative to serve as a public, formal vehicle for all school stakeholders to speak their voices about what is working and what needs to change to improve our schools and district. Surveys will be given out every year and the district will provide training and additional support/resources to address the prioritiues as well as using the survery results for Continuour Improvement.
The Surveys measure..
District and School performance on 10 major Themes: Clean Learning Environment, Safety, Caring and Support, Meaningful Youth Participation, High Expectations, Academic Rigor, Data-Driven Practice, Parent Engagement, Employee satisfaction, and District Strategy.
The Surveys were given to...all students (grades 3-12), parents and guardians, and all OUSD employees. | |
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| | What is Data?
Data provides specific type of information relating to a particular issue, concern, or question. Data is factual information, especially information organized for analysis or used to make decisions.
Reading and Analyzing Data
1) How to READ the USE YOUR VOICE Survey data:
Every survey data chart will report the results for each question in ONE of the following ways: - Strongly Agree/Agree Neutral Disagree/Strongly Disagree
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- A/B (letter grade) C (letter grade) D/F (letter grade)
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- Appropriate Too Easy Too Hard
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- Strongly Satisfies Neutral Dissatisfied/Strongly Dissatisfied
2) How to ANALYZE the USE YOUR VOICE Survey
Review the data results for your site (please see next section for the Survey Results from your school)
For EACH survey theme (review survey theme at top of page), ask your self/your group the following questions: - What does this THEME mean to me?
- What do I SEE in the data?
- What QUESTIONS do the data raise for me?
- What are 1 or 2 QUESTIONS/IDEAS about this theme might we consider in our school improvement plan.
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| | Click here to see the student's Findings and Recommendations about improving our schools
In August 2006, the Oakland Unified School District (OUSD) created a project for students from different OUSD high schools to research how their schools could become better. A group of nine students representing most of the big OUSD high schools were chosen to join this student research team.
The students, with the help of Youth in Focus, a non-profit organization that helps students learn how to do research and create an action plan to help improve their schools and communities, created a powerpoint presentation that shows the research, data, and recommendations from their work. The ultimate goal of the project is to create an action plan to help OUSD high schools inform their school-site planning from a student perspective. | |
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