by Nina Kumar
Posted on February 15, 2024
At AC, our goal is to improve mental health and well-being in schools. To that end, we regularly update our offerings to ensure that they are as helpful as possible to our partner schools. We make these updates based on current scientific research, findings from our work, and in response to feedback from our partner schools.
Our most recent round of updates, available to schools surveying in the 2023-2024 school year, focus on adding context to our dashboards to help users better understand their results and updating survey measures based on the latest research. Read on to learn more about the high-level changes and improvements we’ve made in our latest release.
Our dashboards contain a lot of important information. To help users more easily find the information they are looking for, we have added a Search capability. Users can now type in a word or phrase and they will see a list of the matching topics. We hope to further build out these capabilities in future releases.
We have created an additional time-point filter to allow users to break the data down by two demographic breakdowns at a particular time-point. This will provide additional flexibility when manipulating the dashboards.
On each dashboard that contains quantitative data and filters, we have added a reminder about our commitment to protect respondent confidentiality, stating that we do not show data for demographics that have 10 or fewer respondents.
After reviewing our conversations with schools in the 2022-2023 academic year, as well as the free response data about suggestions for improvement, we have updated the recommendations we give to schools to be even more actionable and targeted.
Annually, we review our surveys to be sure that the questions we ask 1) continue to produce data that can inform actionable recommendations for schools, and 2) are reflective and affirming of the identity and experience of those who are answering the questions. Across all of our surveys, we’ve added optional demographic questions to ensure that our demographic items are as clear and inclusive as possible. We’ve also made several changes to our survey measures and data analyses, some of which are outlined below:
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