Students are considered to have “high financial stress” if they say (1) that they “sometimes” or “often” did not have enough money for food, or (2) if they reported financial problems leading to one of the following: having to underpay tuition, being unable to pay rent or mortgage, or having to move in with other people.
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About Ascend
- Why Ascend
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Lead an Ascend Community
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Privacy, Security & Terms of Use
- Policy & Terms
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Program Set Up & Participation Monitoring
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Survey
- How do I administer the Ascend or Elevate survey to my students?
- What are participants asked on the survey?
- How can I be sure students understand the Elevate questions?
- Do the surveys collect any qualitative data?
- How can I preview the survey?
- Can I select a subset of survey questions or edit the questions?
- What accessibility features are available in the survey?
- Is the Elevate survey available in Spanish or other languages?
- Do participants experience survey fatigue?
- What if a participant completes the survey more than once in the same survey window?
- Help! A participant can't access the survey.
- Can a participant change their survey responses?
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Participation
- How do I maximize student participation in Ascend & Elevate?
- How do I maximize participation in Catalyze?
- What’s a good response rate?
- How do I obtain a more representative sample of survey respondents?
- How do I know which participants completed the survey?
- How do I check which individuals gave the survey?
- How to use the Community Participation Dashboard
- How to use the Network Participation Dashboard
- Networks
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Updates
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Reports
- Use Your Report to Improve Learning Conditions
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Report Basics & Terminology
- What do reports include & who has permission to view them?
- How do I access, share, and save reports?
- What does "rated positively" mean, and why is it used?
- What does “structurally disadvantaged race” mean in the report tables and bar graphs?
- What does “high financial stress” mean in Ascend?
- For Focal Group counts, what do you mean by “in some classes”?
- How do I see results for each Survey Cycle?
- How can I access raw, student-level survey response data?
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How to Read Your Reports
- How to Use the Student Experience Overview
- How to Use the Equity Overview
- How to Use the Participation by Subpopulation Table
- How to Use the Survey Fidelity Table
- How to Use the Student Experience by Survey Graph
- How to Use the Results by Subpopulation Graph
- How to Use the Focal Group Summary in Community Reports
- How to Use the Student Experience by Community Table
- How to Use the Equity Summary by Community Table in Network Reports
- How do I interpret data in the exported .csv format from my Network report?
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Data Calculations in Reports
- How are data calculated in reports?
- Are partial survey responses included in reports?
- What do we do with missing data (e.g., when a participant skip a survey)?
- How is # of respondents calculated?
- How is percent participation calculated?
- How are responses to negatively worded questions displayed, where “agree” means participants are having a negative experience? (e.g. “Sometimes I feel like I don’t belong.”)
- A Class missed a survey. How does that affect our reports?
- Data Disaggregation in Reports
- Report Troubleshooting