YouthTruth: A Beneficiary Perception Report prepared for METSA

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The YouthTruth Beneficiary Perception Report (BPR) helps schools assess their performance, compared to other schools, by documenting students’ perceptions about their school experience and about how well their school is preparing them for their future.

The YouthTruth BPR shows an individual school its students’ perceptions relative to those of other students at schools whose students were surveyed. Unless otherwise noted, this report provides comparative data from 86 schools, collected across three rounds of surveying (January 2009, November 2009, and February 2010). With 86 schools in the comparative dataset, representing 10 states, this should not be considered a comprehensive benchmarking study.

Questions on the YouthTruth survey seek to understand students’:

- level of engagement with their school community
- perceptions of the rigor of their classes and instruction
- impressions of their school culture
- perceptions about how their school experience is helping them achieve their goals
- relationships with adults both in and out of school, and
- perceptions about strengths and weaknesses of their school.