High School Exit Interview

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High School Exit Interview

• Jeff Williams
• Dave Malott

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Background

• Based on experience in other states
• One tool to increase response rates
• Useful for subsequent phone or mail surveys

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Why is response rate an issue?

• By definition, the list of leavers is 618
  months old
• December 2005 count has leavers from the first
  half of the 20052006 academic year
• December 2006 count has leavers from the second
  half of the 20052006 academic year
• Even if addresses were updated right as they
  left, how often do you think 1725 year olds
  move?

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The Benefit

• Telephone response in other states
• 4060 percent of graduates
• 1030 percent of dropouts
• Exit survey boosts response rates by 1020
  percent
• Many states have not attempted to survey dropouts
  in annual surveys because it was too hard to
  reach the population

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Three Options

• Option A
• Collect contact information
• Option B
• Provides an opportunity for the student to
  reflect on the high school experience and the
  utility of the Summary of Performance
• Option C
• To collect student interview data on processes,
  services, and/or systems for use in
• analyzing SPP 14 data results and
• informing the local system improvement process

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SPP 14

• Post-School Survey

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The Short Version

• Centralized mail survey (4 rounds)
• ISD/LEA telephone survey (2 rounds)
• 12,306 eligible students (2004-05 academic year)
• Fielded May to October each year

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Survey Process

• As of 801 AM, October 6, 2006 final plan not
  due to OSEP until later this fall
• March PSC receives data file from MDE
• April PSC preps mailings
• May Wave 1 mailing to leavers
• June Wave 2 mailing to leavers
• July Wave 3 mailing to leavers parents
• August Wave 4 mailing to leavers parents
• September Wave 1 ISD/LEA calls
• October Wave 2 ISD/LEA calls

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Students(20042005 academic year)

• 8,312 students graduated
• 3,294 students dropped out
• 467 students received a certificate
• 233 students reached maximum age
• Total of 12,306 students

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The Survey

• Survey developed by the National Post-School
  Outcomes Center (verbatim)
• Questions about
• Demographics
• Employment (hours, wages, industry setting)
• Education (type of training)
• 14 questions, 2 pages
• National resource and clearinghousehttp//www.ps
  ocenter.org/

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The Remaining Questions

• Does Michigan survey all leavers or only CIMS
  cohort 2 3 leavers in summer 2007?
• How do ISDs/LEAs record the results of the exit
  interview and transmit that to MDE and/or PSC?
• Will Michigan stay with a mail survey, or will
  this eventually become a telephone survey?