Focu

sABCI Evaluation

Possible Threats to Integrity

Variations in age of students may result in

skewed, invalid, or unreliable data.

Agendas of participants may result in unreliable

data.

Lack of participation may result in a less data

than is needed for quantitative analysis.

Some participants may fill out only the

quantitative portion of the survey or spend little

time on qualitative questions.

Goals and Objectives

Identify and make connections with anti-bullying and positive relationship building programs already in

place with the community and in local

schools

Provide training to at least one-hundred (100)

adults about issues associated with bullying

and ways to address bullying within the next

year.

Develop and implement at least three (3) new programs that teach youth how develop

positive relationships with their peers in the

next year.

Population and Sample

Community Program

Personnel

Students

Parents

Administrators

Meth

ods

Surveys containing both qualitative and quantitative questions will be administered

to participants.

Students

Will take surveys in

computer labs during class

Questions about numbers of trainings, previous and current views of bullying, and changes noticed in school since trainings.

Parents

Will be emailed link

to survey

Questions about numbers of trainings attended and

aware of, previous and current views of bullying, and changes noticed in

school and children since trainings.

Community Program

Personnel

Will be emailed link

to survey

Questions about extent of collaboration with school

in planning and implicating trainings and

areas for suggested improvement.

Administrators

Will be emailed link

to survey

Questions about extent of collaboration with

community in planning and implicating trainings, changes noticed in school since trainings, and areas

for suggested improvement.

Qualitative and Quantitative data will be analyzed separately.

Students

Qualitative themes of previous and

current views will be compared to each

other and compared with parents’

themes.

Quantitative data about numbers of trainings

attended and amount of change seen will be

correlated using Pearson correlation.

Parents

Qualitative themes of previous and

current views will be compared to each

other and compared with students’

themes.

Quantitative data about numbers of trainings

attended and amount of change seen will be

correlated using Pearson correlation.

Community Program

Personnel

Qualitative themes of suggested

improvements will be compared.

Quantitative data about amount of collaboration

with schools versus perceived program

effectiveness will be correlated using Pearson

correlation.

Administrators

Qualitative themes of suggested

improvements will be compared.

Quantitative data about amount of collaboration

with community and changes seen in school will be correlated using

Pearson correlation.

Thre

ats

Written report will discuss findings and

future goals, and charts and graphs

will display quantitative data.

Students will discuss findings in class.

Administrators, parents, and community

stakeholders will receive a link, via email, inviting them to review data on the program’s website.

Paper copies of the report will be made

available by the school.Report

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Research Questions

How many programs have been attended

by students and adults?

Have programs been effective in changing perceptions of and actions in regard to

bullying?

Has the program been collaborative

with the community?