Surveying the Seniors

Week 4: Making Sense of it All.

I have 159 surveys, consisting of 52 questions, from four schools, and a partridge in a pear tree. I was surprised how much faith has been bestowed upon me for developing the summary report. My supervisor made me understand that I have collected the data, I have worked with it, I know it so I understand what is important. After my Thursday evening CUSP meeting with Richard, I realized my supervisor was right. The data is starting to speak to me, "themes" are emerging. I am going to focus on students perspective on their: teachers, college counselors, parents, friends, and college information. I will use this to analyze what is most important to all of the stake holders in Urban Assembly, how all of these factors contribute to the pursuits of higher education. Although this is a Senior Survey, I am going to take the recommendation of verifying some of the trends in my data with the school administration in order to really qualify the information.
My critical incident for this week would have to be the realization that my suggestion of adding a comments section to the survey, did indeed provide a avenue for the students to express information that they believe to be germane to the evaluation. This is nice when an idea works out well.