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Look at the results for the first module, measuring adult attitudes and behavior. Check to see if student and staff answers agree, or conflict. It's not uncommon for adults to see their behavior as bias free, but students to have another take on it. You may see one area of bias come up, for instance different social or academic expectations based on students' race or ethnicity, or different discipline patterns based on gender. If this is the case, focus staff training on that issue first. If you need help in this area, Ripple Effects offers computer-based training for educators, too.
Now look at results for the second module, measuring students' attitudes and behavior toward each other. Once more, be alert to differences between adult and youth perception of what's going on. If adults perceive discrimination where students do not, openly discuss these results with students. It may reflect a generation gap more than a problem with appreciating diversity. However, if more than 10% of students perceive peer discrimination against any group, it's definitely time to do some diversity appreciation training, even if the adults' answers didn't suggest a problem. Adults are sometime clueless about the social injury that happens to some students at the hands of others.
Now look at the third module, measuring participants' own attitudes and behavior toward people they perceive as different. This may be especially useful to test the effect of an intervention with a particular student. To use the survey pre- and post-intervention with a specific individual, just register that person, as if he or she were a school, with word PRE after their name. Have the student sign in exactly the same way. The program will collect and store that person's PRE data. Later, register the student again, as if he or she were a school. Have the student take the survey again, and compare results.
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