How do you know if your students’ experiences in school are engaging or worthwhile? Just ask them.
Students deserve consistently engaging, worthwhile experiences in school. And as we learned in The Opportunity Myth,they can provide valuable feedback about whether their experiencesare actuallyengaging or worthwhile —if we ask them.
To understand how your students perceive their daily lessons, we recommend using the Student Engagement Survey, which is a slightly modified version of the student surveys we administered as part of our research for The Opportunity Myth. Administer the anonymous survey regularly to understand how engaging and worthwhile your students perceived your lesson for the day to be – and then use that information to make lessons even more engaging and worthwhile.
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How do you know if your students’ experiences in school are engaging or worthwhile? Just ask them.
by Michael Keany
Feb 3, 2023
Student Engagement Survey
How do you know if your students’ experiences in school are engaging or worthwhile? Just ask them.
Students deserve consistently engaging, worthwhile experiences in school. And as we learned in The Opportunity Myth, they can provide valuable feedback about whether their experiences are actually engaging or worthwhile —if we ask them.
To understand how your students perceive their daily lessons, we recommend using the Student Engagement Survey, which is a slightly modified version of the student surveys we administered as part of our research for The Opportunity Myth. Administer the anonymous survey regularly to understand how engaging and worthwhile your students perceived your lesson for the day to be – and then use that information to make lessons even more engaging and worthwhile.
Consult the Student Engagement Survey Scoring Guide to see which questions measure engagement and which questions measure worth.
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These tools and resources are provided for informational or educational use only and are not intended as a service.
Unless otherwise indicated, the resources provided on the Student Experience Toolkit are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share-Alike license and are subject to the copyright rules under that license.
Commercial use of the materials is not allowed without explicit written permission from TNTP, Inc. Unless otherwise noted, any distribution of materials posted on this website must credit TNTP, Inc. as follows:
From The Student Experience Toolkit (2018) by TNTP, Inc., available at https://tntp.org/student-experience-toolkit.
Permission to copy, use and distribute materials as described above shall not extend to information housed on the Student Experience Toolkit and credited to other sources, or information on websites to which this site links.