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Family of Surveys
• Pride Survey for Grades 6-12
• Pride Survey for Grades 4-6
• Pride Survey for Faculty/Staff
• Pride Survey for Parents
• Risk and Protective Factor Survey
• Communities That Care Youth Survey
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Data collected
• Alcohol, tobacco, other drug
prevalence
• School safety
• Carrying guns (at school/outside
school)
• Gang membership
• School climate/Academic
Achievement
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Academic Achievement
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How do you know they are
telling the truth?
• Test-retest
– 97% exact agreement for cocaine use
• Built-in “lie detector”
– Fake drug
– Internal inconsistency
• Iteration studies
– 10th grade annual drug use (2005)
• Pride 29.7%
• MTF 29.8%
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Pride Survey and MTF
60
Annual Use-- Any llicitDrug
50
40
30
20
10 2000 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006
Pride Survey, 12th Grade Monitoring the Future (MTF), 12th Grade
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Where Drug Use Occurs
• Pride Surveys data supports a
community-wide response to adolescent
problems
25
20
15
When do you
use marijuana
10 (12th grade)
0
At School Nights Weekends
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Where the guns are
Carrying Guns
School Outside
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What parents think and
students do
• A powerful tool to deal with parental
denial
45
40
35
30
8th graders
25
self report
20 Parental
15 perception
10
5
0
Alcohol Drugs
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What Faculty/Staff Say
• 12,700 faculty and staff members
• Responses from Pride Survey for
Faculty/Staff
• Not random sample
• 2005-06 school year
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What Faculty/Staff Say
• ATOD training needed
– Student Refusal Skills
70%
– Locating and using community
resources 69%
– Recognizing signs and symptoms of use
64%
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What Faculty/Staff Say
• School/student safety training
needed
– Violence prevention
76%
– Conflict Resolution
75%
– Recognizing signs and symptoms of
violence 75%
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