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School Effectiveness Questionnaire Application (SEQ)School District of Palm Beach CountyDesigned and developed by: Maria-Alexandra Paladines March 2012Department of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment in collaboration with the Department of Educational Data Warehouse, Accountability, and School Improvement

1The School Effectiveness Questionnaire (SEQ )Group:

The SEQ application would not be possible without the participation of a group of my peers that in different stages of the project shared their knowledge with me. At specific time their guidance and feedback was required.I would like to mention Mr. Randy Powell, the department manager who was in charge of the logistics of the SEQ,Dr. Donghai Xie, a research specialist who assisted with the development of the SEQ,Mr. Jesus Sandoval, a database administrator who was responsible for downloading and preparing the data,A group of specialists from the Department of Educational Data Warehouse, Accountability, and School Improvement added their support the project.And finally Mr. Mark Howard, Director of Research, Evaluation, and Assessment who gave me the responsibility of designing and developing the SEQ application for School District of Palm Beach County (SDPBC).2 The SEQ provides data that will:provide the opportunity for staff discussions on the perceived strengths and weaknesses in the school,assist staff in identifying strategies to improve areas of perceived weakness,provide information to schools, parents, administrators and the public on how they are doing compared to a standard, to themselves, and to others schools.allow schools to see a comparison of respondents perceptions concerning specific categories of school functioning,One of the most valuable exercises resulting from the administration of the questionnaires in the discussion of results, the data is presented using graph and tables to provide more effective data findings that are unique to your school.The SEQ helps to rich a common understanding of the findings and interpretations, the schools must address them in the school improvement plan.

3The School Effectiveness Questionnaire Application (SEQ) is available in teachers/staff, and students versions. Next year parents version will also be available.

Beginning in December 2011, the SEQ Application is a compound of reports /graphs that is available through the Educational Data Warehouse (EDW).

You can access the application through the EDW portal (http://www.palmbeachschools.org/edw/access.asp) by clicking on New Educational Data Warehouse .

After login, click on Families and then click on Surveys.

You will find SEQ Report ( School Effectiveness Questionnaire Results RQOOA0508) .4

Main Menu This is the SEQ main menu. IT is conformed by four different sections called selections prompts . (click)The first prompt is to select the Version of the SEQ, you will be able to choose between Teacher, Student or Parent. (click)The second prompt is the School Type, the SEQ application gives the options to see District results, or an specific school type results. (click)The third prompt allows to choose the school, and (click)The last prompt is the category prompt which let you to choose a group of question within the survey.

In dark blue color the application shows the selection you made for verification.

Click Run Report.

5SEQ AnalysisSchools can use the SEQ application to answer the three guiding questions:* How is your school doing compared to itself?* How is your school doing compared to similar schools?* How is your school doing compared to the District?6Teacher / Staff Version * All questions apply to all schools in the District.* Questions are classified under the five categories listed: Instructional Leadership High Expectations School Climate Decision Making Student Conduct.* General Information questions are identified as letters A to J.7

Teacher / Staff Version Let see Teacher/Staff version, (click)

In the main menu I choose Teacher (click)

In the School Type prompt, I choose All Elementary Schools because I want to review the result for that school type, and (click)

Finally I choose Instructional Leadership from the category prompt.

Click Run report

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Teacher / Staff Version This report shows only questions that belong to the category selected in the main menu. Questions are sorting Ascending by Item number. (click)

School prompt will only shows all the schools with more than 10 surveys. If you choose the option All Elementary Schools for example, you will see in the prompt only Elementary Schools. (click)

In this screen you will be able to change your selected category. (click)

To change the sorting order of this report you have to choose the Sort type prompt and selected the sorting type, you can change from ascending to descending and vice versa. (click)

The Printer Friendly Report prompt allows the user to select the how the application will generate the PDF version of the report. The option Selected Category is selected by default. You can change the selection to All categories to generate the report for the entire survey not only for the category you see on the screen. (click)

Categories Instructional Leadership, High Expectation and School Climate use the six-point Likert scale.The maximum in the scale (number 6) represent Strongly AgreeThe minimum in the scale (number 1) represent Strongly Disagree (click)

No responses are not included in the Mean Calculation.

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Teacher / Staff Version In this screen I selected Student conduct category, every time you change your selection, you must click the update botton to refresh or update the data on your screen.

If you decide to have a print report you must click on the Printer Friendly button.

Remember to update the Printer Friendly Report prompt before to generate the PDF version.

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Teacher / Staff Version PDF example of the page 1 of the questions in the Student Conduct category,

Sorting ascending by Not a problem and Minor problem responses.

The triangles above the columns tells you by what columns the report is sorting.

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Teacher / Staff Version In previous screen I told you about the Sort Type prompt (click), this selection will take effect when you click over the header buttons of the scale (click) , the positive or negative responses (click) or the Item button.

Student Conduct Category uses the four-point Likert scale. (click )The maximum in the scale (number 4) represent Not a problem (click)The minimum in the scale (number 1) represent Serious problem (click)No responses are not included in the Mean Calculation.

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Teacher / Staff Version The Decision Making category uses also the four-point Likert scale.

The maximum in the scale (number 4) represent A great deal of influence (click)The minimum in the scale (number 1) represent No influence (click)No responses are not included in the Mean Calculation.

For all categories but General Information category, the SEQ application allows you to drill down to see a Category Composite Chart.

When you click on this hyperlink, the application will run another graph, but you will keep this report in your windows browser, the report will not be close. That allows to come back to this screen at any time.

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Teacher / Staff Version Here is the Decision Making category results.

This report is conformed by a table and a graph. The table reports results for District and All Elementary School types for comparison purposes.

Also graphs the results for visual and more clear understanding.

If you decide to see result in other category click on the Category prompt and changed the selection.

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Teacher / Staff Version To compare your school results for an specific Item to other schools, the application gives you the option to click the hyperlink to drill down to that specific information15

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Teacher / Staff Version Now, I am clicking on the Item Number.17

Teacher / Staff Version The SEQ application shows the category comparison table and graph

In this report I am showing results for School 0101, for Item or question 44

The table allows us to compare the results for Item 44 for the school shown, with School type results (click) and with the District results (click)

18Teacher / Staff Version

This is a example of the result graphs for question C under General Information category.

SEQ application uses vertical bars to show the percentages for each one of the responses. Beside the Responses in the right of the report graph, it is the percentage for that particular response.Here the response 1-3 years has 9% of the total responses for this question.

Please remember the percentages are rounded, that can cause the total percent might not equal 100%.

For all Categories you will be able to drill down to the School report for a specific question. (click)

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Teacher / Staff Version The schools appear in alphabetical order but clicking the School Name or Rrate button and the selection in Sort Type you can modified the sorting f the report.20Student Version 21Student Version * Student version questions are numbered from 1 to 49. Not all questions apply to all schools. For example questions 34 to 37 are for high schools only.* Questions are classified as the eight (8) categories listed: School Climate High Expectations College Expectations Post-secondary Preparations Individual Concerns Challenging Assignments Community Services Satisfaction with the School* General Information questions are identified as letters A to E22

Student Version Categories School Climate, High Expectations, College Expectations, Post-secondary preparations, and Individual Concerns use the six-point Likert scale.

The maximum in the scale (number 6) represent Strongly AgreeThe minimum in the scale (number 1) represent Strongly DisagreeNo Responses and Invalid Responses are not included in the Mean Calculation.

I selected Challenging Assignments (click) and Run report.

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Student Version 24Student Version

Challenging Assignments Category uses five-point Likert scale.The maximum in the scale (number 5) represent 4 or more TimesThe minimum in the scale (number 1) represent NeverInvalid responses and No responses are not included in the Mean Calculation.

You can click on the Hyperlink to view Category Composite Chart or click over the Item button to drill down to the School Comparison Graph / Report.

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Student Version 26Student Version

There are no Mean calculation for Community Services category.

27The analysis of the SEQ Application is important for planning and indicates perceptions on specific areas of the functioning of the school.

The data resulting from the SEQ Application is also important to perceive the strengths and weaknesses of a school.

The SEQ Application helps staff identify their schools potential and create improvement strategies.

Why is it important to use the SEQ Application?28The Department if Research, Evaluation, and Assessment is working to provide and enhance the SEQ Application for the teacher and student versions.

The parent version of the SEQ Application is being updated and will be available for viewing for school year 2012-2013.

Thank you

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