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Comprehensive
School Reform (CSR) Formative Evaluation Database (CSRFED)
Questionnaires
There are three sets of questionnaires involving the
major stakeholders at your school—teachers,
parents, and administrators—available with the
CSRFED. The questionnaires offer an anonymous method
for gathering opinions and perceptions of the implementation
of your school’s CSR model.
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When
gathering stakeholders to administer the questionnaire,
it’s important to make the room comfortable and
inviting. Furnish some drinks and provide pencils. Ask
them to complete the questionnaire and give any other
necessary verbal instructions. Remember, the response
rate is influenced primarily by contextual issues: how
the questionnaire is introduced, whether participants
are motivated to complete it, and the timing of the
introduction.
Allow ample time to complete the questionnaires. Pass
them out while everyone is still attentive, and ask
participants to complete them at their seats (before
they pack up to leave). Consider “trading”
publications participants can take home, lunch tickets,
or other incentives for the completed instrument. Response
rates improve when you tell respondents that you will
share the aggregated responses with them and then do
so as quickly as responses are compiled.
The following are the three sets of questionnaires:
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Students—Ideally,
student questionnaires should be administered to the
entire student population.
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Parents—Ideally,
there should be two sets of parents surveyed: (1)
those directly involved with the school’s CSR
program and (2) a group of parents not involved at
all in the CSR program. The recommended number of
parents for each of these groups is six.
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School
Personnel—The school should survey the entire
school using all three surveys (to include all faculty
and staff, regardless of position or involvement in
the school’s CSR project). The school should
divide the total staff and faculty into three random
groups and assign one of the three school personnel
surveys to each of the three groups.
Tips
for Administering Questionnaires
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Call
subjects (teachers, administrators, etc.) into a room,
furnish some drinks and pencils, and ask them to complete
the questionnaire. That way, you can give any necessary
verbal instructions.
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If
the survey is being administered in person, at the
end of a workshop, the response rate is influenced
primarily by contextual issues, such as how it is
introduced, whether participants are motivated to
complete it, the timing of the introduction, etc.
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Allow
ample time to complete surveys, pass them out while
everyone is still attentive, ask participants to complete
them at their seats (before they pack up to leave),
and “trade” the completed instrument for
publications they can take home, lunch tickets, or
other incentives. Response rates improve when you
tell respondents that you will share the aggregated
responses with them, and then do so as quickly as
responses are compiled.
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