Before You
Begin the Survey Process...
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Who will be your district contact responsible for the WPHSOS process? |
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The person selected to be the district contact person should
be the person who is responsible for receiving and keeping the
district's user name and password, ensuring others using the
outcomes website keep information confidential, and is the main
contact person between the district and the website managers.
Please review the Usage
Agreement and indicate who the district contact person will
be. |
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| 2. |
How will the district know whom to interview? |
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Once you have received your User Name and Password, you will be
allowed access to the coordinator links. When you select "Enter
Student Contact Information", you will see an alphabetized
list of your district's former students. These are the students
that your district reported as exiters on the Federal Data Report,
collected from your district by the DPI on the third Friday
in September. An exiter is a student who was present at the
beginning of the reporting period and did not return to high
school at the beginning of the next reporting period. This means
your district reported this student as exiting your high school
through:
- a regular diploma
- certificate of attendance (including an HSED)
- by reaching the maximum age of eligibility for services (21 years of age)
- or by dropping-out (age 14 and older)
If this is your required Indicator 14 year, an attempt will be made to contact
all former students on this list. If your district has elected
to use this survey process, you may contact some or all of your
former students. |
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Who will do the interviewing? |
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If this is your required Indicator 14 year, St.
Norbert College Survey Center will contact
your district's former students and will enter
the surveys directly on your district's secured
portion of the website.
If your district has elected
to use this survey process, you may have someone
from your district call your former students
or you may choose to contract with St.
Norbert to call them.
If you plan to contact your former students, you will need to have each interviewer:
- Understand the confidentiality related to this survey and the information they will know
- Become very familiar with the survey questions and skip patterns
- Have the ability to communicate well with a variety of respondents; it is very important that each interviewer understands the questions so they can help the respondents understand them and respond appropriately
- Watch the Interviewer
Training Video for insights and techniques
on how best to interview
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Will the district record interview responses directly onto the website or will we record the responses on paper and transfer them to the website? |
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If you are calling your former students, you
can enter the interview responses directly onto
the website (preferred method), or you can print
a paper copy of the Scripted
Interview. Record the respondent's answers
on the paper form, and then you must
enter all of the respondents' answers into the
website at a later time.
Please note: The website interview questions have "skip" patterns built in (e.g. If the student answered "yes" to a question, you automatically go to the next appropriate question). If you are using a paper copy to record responses, you will need to follow the skip patterns very carefully to get accurate survey data.
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How will the district track student contact information? |
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Please refer to Survey Timelines
to determine when you need to collect student data. |
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