Guidance for Responding to DESSA Student-Self Report Data
Overview
This article outlines recommendations for interpreting and responding to the data gathered through the DESSA Student Self-Report for middle and high school students. The PDF provided below addresses the following frequently asked questions:
- Is there value in using both the student and educator DESSA ratings?
- Will we see differences between student and educator DESSA ratings?
- Why have high school SSR results showed many students need support over the past few years?
- Do middle school SSR results look similar to high school SSR results?
- Why did you update and re-norm the high school SSR?
- How will student scores change when we use the updated high school SSR?
- What should we do if our SSR results suggest many students need support?