Yes. The item measuring belonging certainty asks participants how much they agree or disagree with the statement, “Sometimes I feel that I belong in this class, and sometimes I feel that I don’t belong.” The percentages in Ascend reports reflect the portion of participants who “disagree” or “strongly disagree” with the statement. These two answers suggest that the participant feels a high degree of certainty about their belonging in the class.
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About Ascend
- Why Ascend
- Learning Conditions in Ascend
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Lead an Ascend Community
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Privacy, Security & Terms of Use
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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 students 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 edit or select a subset of survey questions in Elevate?
- 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?
- Why can’t a participant access the survey?
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Participation
- How do I maximize student participation?
- What’s a good response rate?
- How do I obtain a more representative sample of survey respondents?
- How to use the Community Participation Dashboard
- How to use the Network Participation Dashboard
- How do I check which individuals gave the survey?
- How do I know which participants completed the survey?
- 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?
- 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 Target Group counts, what do you mean by “in some classes”?
- How do I see results for each Survey Cycle?
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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 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