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	GOTTFREDSON ASSOCIATES, INC.
	Resources for School Assessment

GOTTFREDSON ASSOCIATES, INC.

Resources for School Assessment

Effective School Battery

Use the ESB to Assess School Climate！

Gottfredson Associates, Inc.

11444 Old Frederick Road

Marriottsville, Maryland 21104

Tel: 410 442-3770

Fax: 410 442-3772

Contents:
Assessing School Climate With the Effective School Battery
Administration and Scoring
Reports
To Obtain Materials and Services

Assessing School Climate With the Effective School Battery

Use the Effective School Battery (ESB) student and teacher surveys to provide objective measures of a school's strengths and weaknesses. The ESB assesses school climate, and it provides a portrait of the attitudes and other characteristics of a school's students and teachers. The ESB User's Manual is currently available for download. In order to view the file, you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed in your computer.

The Effective School Battery generates a detailed picture of school environment. It measures and reports on school safety, staff morale, administrative leadership, fairness and clarity of school rules, respect for students, classroom orderliness, academic climate, school rewards, student educational expectations, attachment to school and other aspects of school climate as reflected in teachers' and students' perceptions, behavior, and attitudes. For a detailed account of what the ESB measures, see Effective School Battery Scales.

Use the Effective School Battery to:

Identify areas of excellence in schools
Diagnose problem areas
Stimulate effective planning and program development
Research key features of school effectiveness
Monitor progress
Compare different groups of students.

The Effective School Battery has been a valuable tool for school improvement and evaluation projects across the country for more than 15 years.

The ESB is intended to assess school climate, and it produces scores for schools and for groups of students. (Back to the top)

Administration and Scoring

Reusable teacher and student survey booklets present items that students complete in a class period and that require about 20 minutes for teachers to complete. Teachers and students mark their responses on separate answer sheets that are sent to Gottfredson Associates for optical scanning and scoring.

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Reports

The Effective School Battery offers flexibility in the type of reports generated from the scored answer sheets.

The ESB Standard Interpretive Report includes profiles summarizing responses from teachers and students, an interpretive summary for each profile, technical information for evaluation specialists, an overview of the ESB, and suggestions for next steps in planning school improvement activities.

The Disaggregated Interpretive Report provides information about specific groups of students based on sex, grade, ethnic group, program participation, or other criteria specified by the user.

District-wide Summary Reports compare schools within your district by providing results for individual schools as well as a district average.

One of the flexible reports will meet the needs of most users. Data files of ESB scores are available for use by qualified research and evaluation personnel.

Four different kinds of scores are reported for the ESB. These are:

School climate according to the reports of teachers
School climate according to the reports of students
Average characteristics of the teacher population
Average characteristics of the student population

The Effective School Battery is intended to assess schools and educational and social outcomes for groups. It is not intended for individual assessment. Therefore, the standard ESB reports do not present data for individuals.

Click on Effective School Battery Scales to see the sections describing the scales of the ESB organized according to the four categories listed above.

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To Obtain Materials and Services

To order materials and scoringeposrts for the ESB, complete the Order Form and Qualification Form and send them with a check, institutional purchase order, or credit card information to Gottfredson Associates, Inc. No ESB materials may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher.

Read the instructions for preparing answer documents for scoring carefully before sending answer sheets for scoring.

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		Effective School Battery
		Use the ESB to Assess School Climate！

Gottfredson Associates, Inc. 11444 Old Frederick Road Marriottsville, Maryland 21104 Tel: 410 442-3770 Fax: 410 442-3772		Contents: Assessing School Climate With the Effective School Battery Administration and Scoring Reports To Obtain Materials and Services

		Assessing School Climate With the Effective School Battery Use the Effective School Battery (ESB) student and teacher surveys to provide objective measures of a school's strengths and weaknesses. The ESB assesses school climate, and it provides a portrait of the attitudes and other characteristics of a school's students and teachers. The ESB User's Manual is currently available for download. In order to view the file, you need to have Adobe Acrobat Reader installed in your computer. The Effective School Battery generates a detailed picture of school environment. It measures and reports on school safety, staff morale, administrative leadership, fairness and clarity of school rules, respect for students, classroom orderliness, academic climate, school rewards, student educational expectations, attachment to school and other aspects of school climate as reflected in teachers' and students' perceptions, behavior, and attitudes. For a detailed account of what the ESB measures, see Effective School Battery Scales. Use the Effective School Battery to:
		Identify areas of excellence in schools Diagnose problem areas Stimulate effective planning and program development Research key features of school effectiveness Monitor progress Compare different groups of students.
		The Effective School Battery has been a valuable tool for school improvement and evaluation projects across the country for more than 15 years. The ESB is intended to assess school climate, and it produces scores for schools and for groups of students. (Back to the top) Administration and Scoring Reusable teacher and student survey booklets present items that students complete in a class period and that require about 20 minutes for teachers to complete. Teachers and students mark their responses on separate answer sheets that are sent to Gottfredson Associates for optical scanning and scoring. (Back to the top) Reports The Effective School Battery offers flexibility in the type of reports generated from the scored answer sheets. The ESB Standard Interpretive Report includes profiles summarizing responses from teachers and students, an interpretive summary for each profile, technical information for evaluation specialists, an overview of the ESB, and suggestions for next steps in planning school improvement activities. The Disaggregated Interpretive Report provides information about specific groups of students based on sex, grade, ethnic group, program participation, or other criteria specified by the user. District-wide Summary Reports compare schools within your district by providing results for individual schools as well as a district average. One of the flexible reports will meet the needs of most users. Data files of ESB scores are available for use by qualified research and evaluation personnel. Four different kinds of scores are reported for the ESB. These are:
		School climate according to the reports of teachers School climate according to the reports of students Average characteristics of the teacher population Average characteristics of the student population
		The Effective School Battery is intended to assess schools and educational and social outcomes for groups. It is not intended for individual assessment. Therefore, the standard ESB reports do not present data for individuals. Click on Effective School Battery Scales to see the sections describing the scales of the ESB organized according to the four categories listed above. (Back to the top) To Obtain Materials and Services To order materials and scoringeposrts for the ESB, complete the Order Form and Qualification Form and send them with a check, institutional purchase order, or credit card information to Gottfredson Associates, Inc. No ESB materials may be reproduced in any form without written permission from the publisher. Read the instructions for preparing answer documents for scoring carefully before sending answer sheets for scoring. (Back to the top)