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There are two concerns here: getting good information and supporting students’ learning. When we take surveys about things that are important or personal to us, especially in areas where we might feel at all ashamed or inadequate, we are likely to answer less honestly if we think someone else is looking over our shoulder. If students know that their teachers or parents will see their answers, they are more likely to give answers that they think will conform to expectations, even if those answers are not quite strictly true. That reduces our ability to trust and learn from the overall results. It also reduces the opportunity for the student to learn through genuine reflection on how they are currently doing. The school will see and be able to share some overall trends. But at the individual level, this survey will only work well if individual students can answer anonymously.

There are two concerns here: getting good information and supporting students’ learning. When we take surveys about things that are important or personal to us, especially in areas where we might feel at all ashamed or inadequate, we are likely to answer less honestly if we think someone else is looking over our shoulder. If students know that their teachers or parents will see their answers, they are more likely to give answers that they think will conform to expectations, even if those answers are not quite strictly true. That reduces our ability to trust and learn from the overall results. It also reduces the opportunity for the student to learn through genuine reflection on how they are currently doing. The school will see and be able to share some overall trends. But at the individual level, this survey will only work well if individual students can answer anonymously.

There are two concerns here: getting good information and supporting students’ learning. When we take surveys about things that are important or personal to us, especially in areas where we might feel at all ashamed or inadequate, we are likely to answer less honestly if we think someone else is looking over our shoulder. If students know that their teachers or parents will see their answers, they are more likely to give answers that they think will conform to expectations, even if those answers are not quite strictly true. That reduces our ability to trust and learn from the overall results. It also reduces the opportunity for the student to learn through genuine reflection on how they are currently doing. The school will see and be able to share some overall trends. But at the individual level, this survey will only work well if individual students can answer anonymously.

There are two concerns here: getting good information and supporting students’ learning. When we take surveys about things that are important or personal to us, especially in areas where we might feel at all ashamed or inadequate, we are likely to answer less honestly if we think someone else is looking over our shoulder. If students know that their teachers or parents will see their answers, they are more likely to give answers that they think will conform to expectations, even if those answers are not quite strictly true. That reduces our ability to trust and learn from the overall results. It also reduces the opportunity for the student to learn through genuine reflection on how they are currently doing. The school will see and be able to share some overall trends. But at the individual level, this survey will only work well if individual students can answer anonymously.

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