2021-2022 - Youth Risk Behavior Survey and Additional Arrowhead Climate Questions Summary for Arrowhead High School
YRBS and Additional Question Results 2021-2022
Description of YRBS: The Wisconsin Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS) is conducted as part of a national effort by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to monitor health risk behaviors of the nation’s high school students. However schools can also choose to conduct a survey of their choosing in order to inform decision-making at the local level. Arrowhead first conducted the survey in December of 2011 with Freshman and Sophomore students, then expanded it to an all school survey during the 2013-2014 school year.
The Youth Risk Behavior Survey conducted at Arrowhead included questions about positive assets, violence, alcohol and drug use, and sexual behavior. Families were informed of the survey through a Skylert message and were given the opportunity to opt their son/daughter out of taking the survey. Families who requested more information were provided the information, including copies of the questions being asked, as part of informed choice.
During an extended 3rd hour period students are asked to take the survey on their laptops in class. A brief statement of privacy and the purpose of the survey is read. Students are told that they do not need to take the survey or answer certain questions on the survey if they so desired. Typically, a response rate of 75% is achieved. The developers of the survey state that for a school of Arrowhead’s size the achieved response rate is statistically sufficient with our sampling procedure to suggest that results are representative of all students.
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