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School Time Task Force Survey — Students

School Time Task Force Survey — Students. Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools. April 3 - 25, 2014.

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School Time Task Force Survey — Students

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  1. School Time Task Force Survey — Students Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools April 3 - 25, 2014

  2. Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools established the School Time Task Force to study current bell schedules and to make recommendations to help inform district leadership about potential changes in bell schedules. In order to gather as much feedback as possible, the task force designed a School Time Survey which examines various daily start and end times. Survey questions were focused on a variety of issues including how school bell schedules might impact student learning, physical well-being, extracurricular activities and family schedules. Parents, staff members and students were asked to participate. This report summarizes the results of the student survey. The survey was open April 3-25, 2014. Students accessed their unique URL survey using their Student IDs. Additionally, paper surveys were available at the Central Office and in all schools. Overview

  3. Survey Development • In order to increase content validity, survey questions were jointly developed in collaboration with the School Time Task Force. • All questions were voluntary. • Most items used 4-point Likert scales (Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Agree, Strongly Agree). • Survey Deployment • The survey was administered via a single URL where students entered their Student ID. Paper surveys were also available. • School name was pre-populated from information in school records for participants who responded via unique links (Student IDs). Technical Notes

  4. Data Analysis and Reporting • The findings for each item in the report exclude participants who did not answer the item. • Results do not reflect random sampling; therefore, they should not be generalized to the entire student population. Rather, results reflect the perceptions and opinions of just those students who responded to the survey. • The denominator for all analyses is the actual count of responses to a given question or set of questions. This number may be the same or lower than the total number of survey responses. • Stacked bar charts show the full distribution of responses across all statements in each topic area. • Data labels of 5% or less are not shown. • Theme analysis procedure: 10% or 100 (whichever is greater) of randomized open-ended responses were analyzed for common themes. Technical Notes (Continued)

  5. Three out of four participating secondary students attend middle school. Participation Which school do you attend? (N=2,220)

  6. About one third of participating students (34%) indicated they feel the current bell schedule works for them and their family. Please select the statement that best describes how you feel about the current bell schedule (start/end time) at your school. (N=2,165) Current Bell Schedule Sentiment

  7. 63% of participating students indicated they get between 7 and 9 hours of sleep on an average school night. On an average school night, how many hours of sleep do you get? (N=2,165) Average Amount of Sleep

  8. A slight majority of participating students (53%) indicated they wake up without an alarm or it is easy to wake up and get out of bed on most school days. On most school days . . . (N=2,167) Description of Most School Mornings

  9. School Schedule and Effect on Secondary Students The impact of changing school start times affects parents and students. We want to learn more about how you feel your current schedule and behavior are related to school start and end times. How strongly do you disagree or agree with the following statements about how school bell schedules might affect students ?

  10. A slight majority of participating students (55%) indicated they have enough time to complete homework, while only 28% indicated they have enough time for a part-time job. How strongly do you disagree or agree with the following statements about after-school activities? Time for After-School Activities

  11. More than 1,600 students provided a substantive response to the open-response question regarding changes to the current bell schedule to allow adequate time for after-school activities. How might your current bell schedule be changed to allow adequate time for after-school activities? Themes from Open-Ended Responses

  12. CMS is open to exploring changes to school schedules. Below is a list of the current CMS schedules: 7:15 a.m. - 2:15 p.m. (High School) 7:45 a.m. - 2:45 p.m. (Elementary School) 8:15 a.m. - 3:15 p.m. (Elementary and Middle School) 8:45 a.m. - 3:45 p.m. (Elementary and Middle School) 9:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. (Middle School) 9:15 a.m. - 4:15 p.m. (Elementary and Middle School) Bell Schedule Options

  13. 53% of participating students indicated CMS should start and end the middle school schedule 15 minutes earlier. Please indicate how strongly you agree or disagree with the following statements. CMS should. . . Bell Schedule Options

  14. The majority of participating middle school (67%) and high school students (64%) indicated they prefer the two early bell schedules. From the list of secondary bell schedules below, which do you prefer? (N=2,191) Secondary Bell Schedule Preference

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