The Kansas Communities That Care Survey

1. The Kansas Communities That Care Survey Process and Administration WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

2. Participation and Sign up • Every school district in the state is contacted with survey marketing materials. • Registration packets are sent to every superintendent. • Brochures are sent to every principal and drug free school coordinator WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

3. Participation and Sign up • Districts return signed registrations • Registrations are entered into database • Regional Preventions centers are updated on districts registered • Advanced users tools at www.ctcdata.org • Letters are sent to districts that don’t respond WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

4. Participation and Sign up • The survey is given 6, 8, 10 and 12th graders annually in Kansas. • The survey is available to every district public and private in Kansas. • The survey is voluntary and free for districts and students WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

5. Participation and Sign up • Survey administration dates • Schools can administer the survey from December through January • Schools should try to pick a week within those 2 months and try to administer the survey to all there students in that week • Districts that give the survey late WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

6. Participation and Sign up • Kansas has been the leader for state wide survey administration. • Data is available for the last 10 years • 70,190 students participated in 2004 • 222 school districts participated WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

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8. Survey Packets • Surveys • Administration guidelines • County and region code listing • Building code listing • Sample parent letter • Envelopes the surveys are enclosed in when complete WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

9. The Survey Document • Districts have two survey documents available to them. • The comprehensive version is the standard survey that includes all questions • The condensed version has no family domain questions • Schools are encouraged to use the comprehensive version WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

10. The Survey Document • The current comprehensive survey includes 126 questions. • The condensed version includes 101 questions WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

11. The Survey Document • Questions are divided by domain • Demographics & School climate • Peer Influences • Drug/Alcohol usage • Community based perceptions • Family Domain WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

12. The Survey Document • Student response validity checks • Answering that they have used phenoxydine • Unreasonable answers on the usage question. • Answering that they were not honest at all on the survey • Survey elimination WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

13. Survey Administration • Students should be allowed 1 full class period to complete the survey • Students can skip any question and should skip questions that don’t apply to them • The students remain anonymous • Its okay if students do not finish the survey WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

14. Survey Administration • Students should remain at their desk until all students are finished or the class period is complete • At the end of the period a brown envelope is passed around at each student places their survey in the envelope WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

15. Scanning and Cleaning • Surveys are checked in, sorted and cut • Scanned by district • Cleaned by district • District • Building • Region • County WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

16. Scanning and Cleaning • There are three strategies used to identify and eliminate students who provide responses of questionable authority • Student self honesty reporting • Fictitious drug questions • Students reportinglogically inconsistent patterns of substance use WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

17. Aggregated Data • Data is aggregated to five levels • State • County • District • Building • Grade WWW.CTCDATA.ORG

18. Database Management • 10 years of data is available • Data is available in other formats by request • Different response • Aggregate specific county • Gender, ethnicity, age • School district level data is only given out with Superintendents authorization WWW.CTCDATA.ORG