About This Project
The information for this project was taken from the Palm Beach County School District’s 2017 school effectiveness questionnaire.
For the survey, teachers and staff at each school were asked to respond to more than 60 statements.
For most of the questions, educators could respond with “strongly agree,” “moderately agree,” “slightly agree,” “slightly disagree,” “moderately disagree,” “strongly disagree.” Agreement with a statement indicated a positive view.
For four questions, educators were asked how much influence they felt they had on particular issues at their school. They could respond with “a great deal of influence,” “moderate influence,” “minor influence” or “no influence.”
Educators were also asked whether they thought 11 student behaviors were a problem at their school. For each one, they could respond with “not a problem,” “minor problem,” “moderate problem,” or “serious problem.”
To measure satisfaction rates at each school, the school district measured the percentage of questions that were answered “positively.”
For the agree-disagree prompts, that meant any time someone answered with “strongly agree,” “moderately agree,” or “slightly agree.”
For the influence prompts, that meant any time someone answered with “a great deal of influence” or “moderate influence.”
For the questions about student behaviors, that means any time someone answered “not a problem” or a “minor problem.”
The school district organized the prompts into five categories: “instructional leadership,” “high expectations,” “school climate,” “decision-making” and “student conduct.” Based on the responses. separate scores were assigned for each category at each school.
Administrators also complied the percentage of positive responses to create an “overall percent positive” score for each school. Here, that figure is reflected as the “Overall Satisfaction” rate. It indicates the percentage of responses that were answered positively at each school.
Based on the “Overall Satisfaction” rates, The Post created a relative ranking of the schools and divided them into four quartiles: “very happy,” “pretty happy,” “less happy,” “among the least happy.”
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