Students, community grade the schools
The Yellow Springs school district released the results of its first comprehensive evaluation through community survey this week. Four versions of the survey were distributed to parents, teachers, 4th–6th grade students, 7th–12th grade students. The survey included both multiple-choice items based on a five-point scale (A,B,C,D,F) and open-ended response questions.
The following is the results section from the report, which was generated by graduate students in the Wright State University School of Professional Psychology in partial fulfillment of the Program Evaluation course. The report was written under the supervision of WSU faculty member and local parent Cheryl Meyer, who coordinated the survey for the district.
The complete report and survey results can be found on the school Web site, www.yellow-springs.k12.oh.us/. See the story in this week’s News.
What Did We Find?
After final analysis of all collected surveys, the results provided useful and positive information. The letter response system used in the multiple-choice questions were converted to a number scoring system, so that an “A” was equal to a 4.0, a “B” equaled a 3.0, a “C” equaled 2.0, a “D” was a 1.0 and a “F” was a 0.0. Using that system, in order to achieve an “A” on any item, most respondents would have had to rate the item as an “A.” It should be noted that achieving an “A” on an item would be highly unlikely. It was possible to earn an “A” if an average fell at 3.5 or higher. The numbered averages for each multiple-choice item are included in the Appendix (Table A). Table B has the conversion of averages to letter grade equivalents.
Table C shows the key for the conversion.
With the exception of a few “Ds” most grades were either “B” or “C”, which is average or better than average. There were no “F” grades. If the distribution of grades was a normal distribution (a bell shaped curve), it would be expected to have a majority of “C” grades with fewer “B” and “D” grades and infrequent “A” or “F” grades. In the case of this survey, the distribution of grades is actually positive, indicating that overall, the district reported within the average to above average range.
Several prominent main themes were found across both multiple-choice and open-ended questions. A number of themes were identified as areas of strength for the school district and there were some areas that could benefit from attention.
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Once jobs have been evaluated and all the points have been summed up, the next step is placing of all evaluated jobs according to points in terms of money. This is the point when rated jobs are translated into monetary values. To conduct wage survey the existing rates are taken for comparison.
The main purposes of wage survey, is to find out the fair for various jobs in order to establish the entire wage structure. Selection of key jobs whose duties are clearly defined, not unstable and mostly representing all level of jobs worth is the very first step in building a wage survey. For the wage survey two types of samples are needed. First sample of key jobs and second a sample of firms in the labor market. Jobs require different personnel, in terms of skill, ability etc and thus it varies from local to regional level. Selection of a sample of firms should be from those firms which operate under similar market conditions.
The job content and available data are carefully analyzed and averaged out, and in this way the rupee values of jobs are prepared and plotted on the chart.
By plotting key jobs against their existing wages, we get a wage trend line lies close to all the jobs plotted on the graph. The wage trend line should be drawn in such a way that it covers most of the points. Those which lie below the line should be paid more to come on the line of best fit. But simultaneously the authority and responsibility should also be increased in line with the wage increase. And as all those which are above the best fit line cannot be paid lower than the existing wage rates all such rates should be freezed.
In construction of wage structure similar jobs are grouped and treated as a job class. All the jobs, which come under that job class are paid the same wage. In the point system, suppose, 120 points to 150 points make a job class. In such case, all the jobs which fetch total between 120 and 150 would carry the same monetary compensation. The purpose of grouping of jobs is to facilitate wage administration.
Factors affecting the designing of the wage structure are:
–Labor market condition: if supply of labor is higher than demand the wage would be relatively low.
–That is, if standard of living is high it calls for higher wage.
–Wage structures of other firms in the same industry directly affect the company’s wage structure.
–Sometimes, even though the competitors pay relatively higher wage, due to weak collective bargaining power of the trade union, management may settle wage at a relatively low rate.
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