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Reports on Student
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The Safe and Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act (SDFSCA) of 2001 supports states and local education agencies in creating safe, disciplined and drug-free learning environments. Pride Surveys make it easier for school personnel to collect information that is required under this Act. The Act specifically requires that indicators be measured, including “the incidence and prevalence, age of onset, perception of social disapproval of drug use and violence by youth in schools and communities.” Each user of the Pride Survey for grades 6-12 receives a short and easy to read Executive Summary (sample) that correlates local findings to each of these specific indicators. The SDFSCA Act, authorized by the No Child Left Behind Act, also requires that “collected data shall include incident reports by school officials, anonymous student surveys, and anonymous teacher surveys.” Pride offers anonymous surveys for students, teachers and parents.
Pride Surveys often pay for themselves. You can consult Pride Survey data to establish need for grant funding, to set goals and objectives and to plan and evaluate your prevention programs. Many Pride Survey users actually write the cost of Pride Surveys into their grant proposals for these reasons.
Only Pride Surveys offer reliable comparisons to state and national findings. Each user of Pride Surveys receives a comparison between their students and students nationally, but the best performance measure is how your student population responds from year to year. In addition, some statewide reports are available.
Who trusts Pride Surveys? Faculty, students, parents, Congress, news organizations, community coalitions, and others. Each year hundreds of individual schools and school systems place their trust in Pride Surveys – more than 8,000 since 1982. In addition, a number of state education agencies have chosen Pride Surveys for their evaluation needs. Pride Surveys was designated by Congress as an official measure of adolescent drug use in the nation. You’ll see Pride Surveys quoted in local and national news organizations.
Students, faculty and parents responding to Pride Surveys are assured anonymity. There is no interviewer, no place on the questionnaire to provide a name, and no other means to identify a respondent. To further assure anonymity, we will not compile reports if fewer than nine students in a grade level respond. Pride will not share your data with anyone except you. We do not make available lists of schools and organizations that conduct Pride Surveys.
Pride Surveys have been field tested in university settings to assure reliability and validity. The surveys have been found to produce highly reliable information. For example, a test-retest of the Pride Survey for Grades 4-6 showed a greater than 97% exact agreement on the question of friends’ approval of drug use. These links lead to the full studies:
In addition to these studies, Pride’s 6-12 questionnaire contains a built in “lie detector.” When answers to questions indicate that the student is not being honest, the software eliminates that student’s questionnaire.
Your paper questionnaires are archived for one year. Should doubts arise, your questionnaires can be re-scanned and re-analyzed during this period. All results are permanently archived electronically.
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