As the finishing touches are being put on the reports to be delivered to the Diocese of Gary, this is the public version of a portion of the introductory packet to give you a feel for how seriously this survey was created, conducted and analyzed. More information will be posted later and soon you will see some interesting comments from survey respondents!
The TrueSpeak Survey (from this point forward known as “the
survey”), conducted for Andrean High School was not done at the request of
Andrean High School nor the Diocese of Gary.
The survey was not created by one individual but rather a
group of 12 individuals, none of which were known to each other to have contributed
to the creation of the survey. To explain, the following demographics were
selected for creation of survey questions:
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4 Current Andrean High School Employees
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4 Former Andrean High School Employees
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4 Current Andrean Students
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4 Current Andrean Parents of Current Andrean
Students
This group of 12 knew that 11 others were participating in
the creation of the survey and the demographics of the group, but not the names
of the chosen ones.Each contributor was asked to submit as many questions as
they could think of that would help bring light to the realities of Andrean
High School’s environment as it were this school year.
ALL CONTRIBUTORS AGREED NOT TO PARTICIPATE IN THE ACTUAL
SURVEY. IT WAS AGREED BY ALL THAT THOSE THAT ASSISTED IN CREATING THE SURVEY
WOULD BE IN A CONFLICT OF INTEREST TO TAKE THE SURVEY AND WOULD MAKE THE
RESULTS THEREFORE QUESTIONABLE. CONTRIBUTORS WERE TAKEN AT THEIR WORD THAT THEY
WOULD NOT PARTICIPATE AND CERTIFIED THE SAME UPON CLOSING OF THE SURVEY.
EQUALLY IMPORTANT, THE OFFICIAL CREATION OF THE SURVEY,
TWITTER ACCOUNT, EMAIL ACCOUNT, GOOGLE+ PAGE, AND BLOG AND THE DATA COLLECTION SECURITY
AND MANAGEMENT OF THE SAME WAS DONE OUTSIDE OF THIS GROUP OF 12 BY AN INDEPENDENT THIRD PARTY NOT CONNECTED
TO ANDREAN HIGH SCHOOL OR THE DIOCESE OF GARY.
AGAIN, THIS DECISION WAS MADE IN THE BEST INTEREST OF AVOIDING A
CONFLICT OF INTEREST OR ANY CHANCE OF DATA TAMPERING.
All questions were analyzed in a variety of methods to
determine which should be included. The list of current employees was provided
by a current employee. The list of former employees was a combination of
various contributor’s recollection. Inadvertently, some people were not
included but learned about after the fact. Certain positions were not
considered in this mix, including non-management cafeteria staff, but rather
questions were asked pertaining to the cafeteria staff collectively.
The survey was carefully crafted in the same basic manner a
Risk Assessment test is crafted. You will notice that some
questions that seem to be duplicated are different variations of the same
question. For example, although every staff member was individually reviewed,
some were called out specifically in the “Agree/Disagree” section of the
survey, while specific departments were questioned in the same section and then
again in open commentary about specific departments and groups. Finally, the
open commentary at the end of the survey was a form of consistency detector as
well.
All in all, the objective was to be sure the most
consistent information was being collected, and to do that, the questions were
crafted in a manner to encourage that. The results worked out as expected
overall, and though nothing can be a perfect science it is collectively
believed that the results are very consistent, accurate, and sometimes
revealing.
