2008-09 ASD Climate & Connectedness Student Survey
The 2008-09 Climate & Connectedness Student Survey is being done to provide
schools with information about perceptions and experiences related to school
climate and student connectedness for use in setting school goals and redirecting resources.
School climate and student connectedness have been shown to be pre-conditions for learning
to take place. The Climate & Connectedness Surveys will provide principals and school
staff valid and reliable data regarding school climate and student connectedness. All ASD
schools are taking many steps to improve school climate and student connectedness, and
these surveys will provide reliable data to document change in these areas.
The questions contained in the student grades 3-4 questionnaire ask about Caring Others
and Social and Emotional Learning.
The questions contained in the student grades 5-12 questionnaire ask about School Leadership
and Student Involvement, Respectful Climate, High Expectations, School Safety, Peer Climate,
Caring Adults, School Danger and Social and Emotional Skills.
2008-09 ASD Climate & Connectedness Parent/Guardian Survey
In an effort to increase the return rate, the Assessment and Evaluation Department
is going to provide parents/guardians with multiple opportunities to complete the
survey.
- Parent/guardian surveys will be available for parents/guardians to complete during
the April parent teacher conferences.
- Parent/guardian surveys will also be mailed with students’ SBA and HSGQE results
during the first week of June. There will be a separate mailing to parents/guardians
of juniors and seniors not taking the HSGQE retest and parents/guardians of grades
K, 1, and 2 students.
- Parents/guardians may also complete the survey on-line. (The link will be available on January 20, 2009).
Parents/guardians will complete one survey for each child in school. In case of
dual guardianship, surveys will be mailed to each parent or guardian. The mailed
survey and on-line survey will have a notation to disregard the notice if they previously completed
a survey.
Surveys mailed with the test results in June will be in self-addressed, postage
paid mailers, making it easy for parents/guardians to return the surveys directly
back to the Assessment & Evaluation Department. The same format is used for K, 1,
and 2 students.
- Review the 2008-09 School Climate & Connectedness Parent/Guardian Survey. (This document will be available on March 1, 2009).
- Complete the 2008-09 on-line School Climate & Connectedness Parent/Guardian Survey. (The link will be available on March 31, 2009).
2008-09 ASD Climate & Connectedness Staff Survey
Climate & Connectedness Staff Survey is an online survey through www.surveymonkey.com.
The Assessment and Evaluation Department will send the Web link of the survey to
the email account of every staff member in the school (teachers, administrators,
counselors, support staff, etc.) on January 20, 2009.
Staff will complete the survey during the survey window, January 20 to February 6. The online
survey will be closed on February 6.
Technical Guidance (Staff)
After reviewing technical difficulties from the 2008 administration we have found
that the Safari browser on Macintosh Computers was not always working with the survey.
Firefox, on the other hand, was working for users. Here are four possible choices
you may use to complete the survey; they are in no particular order.
CHOICE ONE: Firefox
Some users may find that their Safari browser pops up instead of Firefox. This occurs
because it is the default browser on many computers. In order to fix this you can
copy and paste the link into the Firefox browser.
Survey link will be made available on January 20, 2009
You may also use the Firefox browser to navigate to the ASD Web site and complete
the survey from there. The link is located below, please find the "2008-09 ASD Climate
& Connectedness Staff Survey" section and click on the statement "Click here to
complete the 2008-09 Climate & Connectedness Staff Survey.”
CHOICE TWO: Safari Fix Number 1
Enable Javascript in Safari:
- Select Preferences from the Safari menu.
- Click Security.
- Check Enable JavaScript.
- Close the window.
- Click Reload.
CHOICE THREE: Safari Fix Number 2
Enable cookies in Safari (if the things above don't help):
- Click on the Safari-Menu in Safari
- Click on the Preferences... item in the menu - a new window opens
- Click on the Security icon near the top of the window.
- Under Accept Cookies the Always or Only from sites you navigate to must be selected.
- Save changes by clicking Ok and go to one of the configuration pages again
CHOICE Four: PDF of Survey
Complete the survey in paper form after printing the following PDF. You may use
interschool mail to send the completed survey to ASSESSMENT AND EVALUATION.
Click here
Access the 2008-09 Climate and Connectedness Staff Survey
If it still doesn't work for you send an e-mail to
assessment@asdk12.org with the details and we will work on any additional
technical issues that surface.
Thank you for your patience in this process.
