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Making Kids More Ready for the Future: Enhanced Gallup Student Poll (GSPi) Kickoff in Northern Kentucky

Valerie J. Calderon, Ph.D., Managing Consultant, Gallup

March 2011

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Agenda

Overview of Gallup Student Poll and Enhanced Features

– Hope, Engagement and Wellbeing

– Community-Based Positive Youth Development

– GSPi Reporting

– Q & A

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Gallup Student Poll Overview

The Gallup Student Poll is a 20-item measure of hope, engagement, and

wellbeing. Gallup researchers targeted these three variables because they

met the following criteria:

- They can be reliably measured

- They have a meaningful relationship with or impact on

educational outcomes

- They are malleable and can be enhanced through deliberate action

- They are not measured directly by another large-scale survey

- Some studies indicate they are not associated with a student’s FARL

status or parent’s household income

Hope | ideas and energy we have for the future | Double Hope

Engagement | involvement in/enthusiasm for school | Build Engaged Schools

Wellbeing | how we think about and experience our lives | Boost Wellbeing

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Gallup Student Poll Overview (continued)

Hope — the ideas and energy we have for the future.

– Hope drives attendance, credits earned, and GPA of high school

students. Hope predicts GPA and retention in college, and hope

scores are more robust predictors of college success than are high

school GPA, SAT, and ACT scores.

Engagement — the involvement in and enthusiasm for school.

– Engagement distinguishes between high performing and low-

performing schools.

Wellbeing — how we think about and experience our lives.

– Wellbeing tells us how our students are doing today and predicts

their success in the future. High school freshmen with high wellbeing

earn more credits with a higher GPA than peers with low wellbeing.

The typical student who is thriving earns 10% more credits and a 2.9

GPA (out of 4.0), whereas a student with low wellbeing, completing

fewer credits, earns a 2.4 GPA.

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Annual Gallup Student Poll Overview (continued)

The inaugural Gallup Student Poll in March 2009 surveyed 70,078 students

in from 335 schools and 59 districts located in 18 states and the District

of Columbia.

In fall 2009, Gallup surveyed 246,682 students in grades 5 through 12. Gallup

generated 907 school level scorecards and 93 district level scorecards.

The third administration was in March 2010. Gallup polled 129,500 students

from 509 schools representing 79 districts.

The fourth administration was from September 28 through October 29, 2010.

Gallup polled 266,971 students in over 1,000 schools representing over 100

school districts.

The national Gallup Student Poll will be administered annually in the fall

beginning in October 2011.

– Gallup and partner organizations own the cost for the annual administration for

public schools and districts.

– Schools and districts receive data provided at grade, school, district, state,

and national level.

– The poll is completed via Web Tuesday through Friday during regular school

hours and is validated for students in grades 5 through 12.

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GSPi Overview: Community-Based Positive Youth Development

In 2010, Gallup partnered with the Forum for Youth Investment and the

Ready By 21 Partnership to build the enhanced version of the Gallup

Student Poll (GSPi).

GSPi is a Web-based customizable survey platform designed to measure the

hope, engagement, and wellbeing of students.

GSPi provides districts, schools, and out of school organizations the opportunity

to have focused group level analyses and feedback on individual students’ level

of future readiness.

The Ready for the Future (RFF) score is a composite of the student’s hope,

engagement, and wellbeing scores.

The RFF score is reported on a 0 to 6 scale.

– Students receive two points when scoring in the highest category of hope,

engagement, and wellbeing, one point for scoring in the middle category, and zero

points for scoring in the lowest category on each of the scales.

– Reports do not expressly reveal a student’s level of hope, engagement, and wellbeing.

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GSPi — Northern Kentucky Pilot General 2011 Timeline The GSPi will be live from February 15 through April 1, 2011, Tuesday through Friday for

students in grades 5 through 12.

School district administrators will register personal accounts at the Gallup Student Poll

website from now through the polling period.

OST organizations will e-mail/send their account information to Gallup to register in the

system by February 2.

Schools and out of school organizations will also provide their participating location

information to Gallup by January 28. (Review template)

– Location name, address, phone number, contact person name/e-mail address, and the

approximate number of participating students

– Gallup will forward a template (Excel) with column labels to Council leadership

Districts will upload a student data template through their personal accounts on the website

by Wednesday, February 2.

– Individual/unique identifier, student first name, middle initial, and last name, birth month,

birth day, and additional data fields

– Gallup has forwarded a template (Excel) with column labels to Council leadership

E-mail User Identifiable Questions Form to [email protected] by Wednesday,

February 2.

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GSPi School Registration Template


Participating Schools Address City State Zip Code Contact Person Contact E-mail Contact Phone

DISTRICT NAME HERE

ELEMENTARY SCHOOLS

SCHOOL 1

SCHOOL 2

SCHOOL 3

MIDDLE/JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOLS

SCHOOL 1

SCHOOL 2

HIGH SCHOOLS

SCHOOL 1

SCHOOL 2

Please add the school name and

also include the school district

overall name and information so

data from the school (s) will be

correctly rolled into the district

overall data.

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E-mail this file to: [email protected]

GSPi OST Registration Template

Must provide at least one individual as a Primary Administrative User.

Participating OST Address City State Zip Code Contact Name Phone Number Website URL

OST Name Here

Primary Administrative User

First Name* Last Name* E-mail Address* Phone Number

Lab Users

First Name* Last Name* E-mail Address* Phone Number

* Required Fields


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E-mail this file to: [email protected]

Northern Kentucky GSPi Reporting and Results

Gallup will post reports by May 6, 2011.

– Reports will be posted mid-April, depending upon the final survey end date.

– Reports will include overall hope, engagement, and wellbeing indexes by location

and by district/organization, as well as include an overall report for the region.

– Locations will also receive Ready for the Future scores for each participating student.

– Overall reports for hope, engagement, and wellbeing will include aggregated by

item data.

Gallup will include one index in addition to the core 20 items on the Gallup

Student Poll for Northern Kentucky.

Reports will contain data for the core 20 items.

Gallup will provide data via PPT around the additional index to the Council which

will include by location/district data. The HAHI will be run against hope,

engagement, and wellbeing scales.

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Wellbeing: Ladder Items Fall 2010

Please imagine a ladder with

steps numbered from zero at the

bottom to ten at the top. The top

of the ladder represents the best

possible life for you, and the

bottom of the ladder represents

the worst possible life for you.

On which step of the ladder

would you say you personally

feel you stand at this time?

(GrandMean: 7.41)

On which step do you think you

will stand about five years from

now? (GrandMean: 8.51)

At this time

In five years

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Note: Based on the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale

8.51

7.41

The 20 Elements of Hopeful, Engaged, and Thriving Students

Q01. On which step of the ladder would you say you personally feel you

stand at this time? On which step do you think you will stand about

five years from now?*

Q02. I know I will graduate from high school.

Q03. There is an adult in my life who cares about my future.

Q04. I can think of many ways to get good grades.

Q05. I energetically pursue my goals.

Q06. I can find lots of ways around any problem.

Q07. I know I will find a good job after I graduate.

Q08. I have a best friend at school.

Q09. I feel safe in this school.

Q10. My teachers make me feel my schoolwork is important.

*This is an abbreviated text of the Cantril Self-Anchoring Striving Scale. For full text, see slide 63.

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The 20 Elements of Hopeful, Engaged, and Thriving Students (continued)

Q11. At this school, I have the opportunity to do what I do best every day.

Q12. In the last seven days, I have received recognition or praise for doing

good schoolwork.

Q13. My school is committed to building the strengths of each student.

Q14. In the last month, I volunteered my time to help others.

Q15. Were you treated with respect all day yesterday?

Q16. Did you smile or laugh a lot yesterday?

Q17. Did you learn or do something interesting yesterday?

Q18. Did you have enough energy to get things done yesterday?

Q19. Do you have health problems that keep you from doing any of the

things other people your age normally can do?

Q20. If you are in trouble, do you have family or friends you can count on

to help whenever you need them?

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Healthcare Access and Habits Index Sample Items

During the past 12 months, did you see a doctor or nurse for a regular

check-up when you were not sick or hurt?

During the past 12 months, did you see a dentist for a dental

examination or when you needed dental care?

During the past seven days, how often did you exercise or do a

physical activity for at least 20 minutes that made you sweat and

breathe hard?

I have a safe place to go when I am sick and can’t go to school.

My family has health insurance or another type of medical coverage

that helps pay for visits to the doctor.

Do you have one or more persons you think of as your personal doctor

or Note: There are additional items included in this index.

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Gallup Student Poll (GSPi) Administration Notes and Next Steps The Gallup Student Poll will be administered again in fall 2011 via Web

(www.gallupstudentpoll.com).

Register a personal account for your district or school, or send your

account information for your out of school organization to Gallup.

– Go to www.GallupStudentPoll.com and click Register Here!

Users select survey dates.

– Tuesday, February 15 through Friday, April 1, 2011.

The survey will only be available Tuesday through Friday.

Attend conference calls to ask questions. (TBD)

Consider how to involve students in GSP conversations.

Consider how to involve community members and parents in

GSP conversations.

Consider implementing a strengths-based curriculum or hosting a

wellbeing conference.

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