The Kansas Communities That Care Survey

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The Kansas Communities That Care Survey

• Process and Administration

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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

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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 dont respond

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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

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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

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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

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Survey Packets

• Surveys
• Administration guidelines
• County and region code listing
• Building code listing
• Sample parent letter
• Envelopes the surveys are enclosed in when
  complete

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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

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The Survey Document

• The current comprehensive survey includes 126
  questions.
• The condensed version includes 101 questions

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The Survey Document

• Questions are divided by domain
• Demographics School climate
• Peer Influences
• Drug/Alcohol usage
• Community based perceptions
• Family Domain

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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

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Survey Administration

• Students should be allowed 1 full class period to
  complete the survey
• Students can skip any question and should skip
  questions that dont apply to them
• The students remain anonymous
• Its okay if students do not finish the survey

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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

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Scanning and Cleaning

• Surveys are checked in, sorted and cut
• Scanned by district
• Cleaned by district
• District
• Building
• Region
• County

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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 reporting logically inconsistent
  patterns of substance use

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Aggregated Data

• Data is aggregated to five levels
• State
• County
• District
• Building
• Grade

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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