SurveyPro

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Data-driven decision making

Data-driven decision making is critical to all organizations. You need the ability to collect pertinent data, segment the data for comparative analysis, and produce easy-to-read charts and graphs that visually convey the results of your analysis. The KinderCharts Survey Reporting System is the ideal data analysis tool for Head Start and Early Head Start organizations.

Easily create custom surveys

The KinderCharts Survey Reporting System empowers you to quickly and easily create agency-defined surveys to collect a variety of information for both your staff and your participating children and families. In addition, you can collect anonymous information for agency-defined areas, such as sites, classrooms, cities, ZIP Codes, and other areas of interest to you and your agency.

The process is easy. Simply...

1. Develop your agency-defined Survey questions and answers or select the desired third-party instrument you have permission to use.
2. Define the desired attributes to be used for comparative analysis.
3. Enter the Survey questions and possible answers into KinderCharts.
4. Associate the Survey with Staff members, enrolled children, enrolled families, or your agency-defined Areas.
5. Then start entering the Survey responses.

Define up to five custom attributes

Each Survey instrument you create in KinderCharts can have as many as five agency-defined attributes that can be used to segment the responses for comparative analysis. Examples of possible attributes are as follows:

• Child Surveys could have attributes, such as:
  • Has IEP/IFSP
  • Attendance < 85%
  • Born to Teen Parent
  • Dual Language Learner
  • Parent has Intellectual Disability
• Family Surveys could have attributes, such as:
  • Teen Parent
  • Employed
  • GED or High School Graduate
  • College Degree
  • Single Parent
• Staff Surveys could have attributes, such as:
  • Job Title (Teacher, Home Visitor, Mentor, Content Coordinator, Manager)
  • Education (High School, ECE, CDA, AA, BA or above)
  • Courses, seminars, and/or trainings attended

Use weighted answers

SurveyPro allows you to use weighted answers with your Child, Family, and Staff survey instruments. SurveyPro not only scores the survey data entered, it also calculates gains and outcomes over time, using the scored results of the earliest and the latest Survey entered into KinderCharts over a user-specified time period. KinderCharts is the only system available that allows you to calculate gains and outcomes for your children, families, and staff over a multi-year time period.

Unprecedented response analysis

Once the data is collected, the responses for each question can be analyzed and graphed. Comparative analysis can be performed by creating graphs that include:

• Only those responses that have a specific attribute selected (inclusive), and
• Only those without the specific attribute selected (exclusive).

This allows comparative graphs to be generated. For example, comparative graphs can be created for children whose attendance is 85% or better versus those whose attendance is < 85%, or for one-parent households versus two-parent households.

Analyze scored surveys using your own Scoring Categories and Gains Categories

The labels you choose for each category are used in the reports and graphs to make the information more understandable to the viewer. Further, the Scoring Categories you define can be used as filters for the Gains reports, allowing you to analyze gains by Scoring Category. Through this feature, you can now isolate aggregated gains to show the gains realized by the neediest of your children and families. This eliminates the dilution effect caused by aggregating all of the child or family gains together into a single number.

Example: Family Assessment

By way of an example, suppose you have a Family Assessment with several Categories and several items being assessed under each Category. Further, let’s use a Weighted Answer Set for this assessment with the answers of:

• In Need = 1 point
• Adequate = 2 points
• Strength -= 3 points

Now let’s define Scoring Categories for this assessment with the following 5 categories for aggregated scores:

• Needs Serious Help (Scores between 0-1)
• Needs Help (Scores between 1-1.5)
• Getting By (Scores between 1.5 – 2.0)
• Doing Well (Scores between 2.0 – 2.5)
• Thriving (Scores between 2.5 – 3.0)

Let’s also define Gains Categories for this assessment with the following 4 categories for aggregated gains:

• Falling Back (Gain of -100% to -10%)
• Needs Help (Gain of -10% to +10%)
• Getting By (Gain of +10 to +50%)
• Doing Well (Gain of +50% to +100%)

In viewing the graph for Category #3 of the assessment, as calculated by the aggregated Scoring Category Analysis report for the first assessment performed with the families, the scoring distribution could look like the following graph.

By the end of the year, the aggregated Gains Results could look like the graph below.

Filtering the Gains Results to look only at the families who scored in the Needs Serious Help Scoring Category, the Gains Results could look like the graph below.

Filtering Gains Results by Scoring Category more accurately represents the value your organization brings to the neediest of families. As shown in the example above, 60% of the neediest families achieved Some Progress and 40% achieved Major Progress. This is substantially better than reporting that only 21% made Some Progress and only 17% made Major Progress. Eliminating the dilution effect presents the value your agency brings to your families and community in a much more favorable and realistic manner.