This article provides information about how to generate and interpret your SEW survey reports. The following topics are covered:
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Report requirements
The SEW survey is an anonymous group survey and is not designed to report individual student responses. Student details are not included in the survey reports. Reporting is by year level and gender groups (for example, Year 8 boys, Year 8 girls etc.)
There must be a minimum of 10 students in each year level and gender group.
Reports will not generate if there are multiple responses from the same students within the specified report date range. If you receive an error message, try narrowing the date range of your report to cover only one survey period.
Generating the report
Follow the steps below to generate your SEW report:
- From the Students page of your account, select your required students
- Click Generate report
- Click Social-Emotional Wellbeing Survey 2nd Edition
- Click Survey Results
- Select your required survey form
- Select your report date range
- Click and drag your cursor across the timeline chart, or
- Enter your start and end dates in the fields
- Click Generate report
- Click View report
Interpreting the report
The SEW report is divided into sections to provide schools with a summary of results across the full survey, and a break-down of results by Domain or Aspect and individual survey questions (items).
When you generate a SEW report, you will see four menu items on the right-hand side.
Summary
This section provides the SEW Score. The SEW Score is an overall score based on all questions answered within the survey. The ‘mean’ score reports the average level of social-emotional wellbeing for students surveyed in your school and across all schools participating in the survey. A higher mean score indicates that this particular student cohort on average enjoys a higher level of social-emotional wellbeing than student cohorts with a lower mean score. The standard deviation (Std Dev) is also an important data point as it indicates the extent of variation in students’ individual social-emotional wellbeing scores. The higher the standard deviation score, the wider the variation is in individual student scores as usually represented by a bell curve.
Overall social-emotional wellbeing
The overall picture of the social-emotional wellbeing of surveyed students is presented in this section, described in terms of five levels:
Level 5: Very Highly Developed
Level 4: Highly Developed
Level 3: Developed
Level 2: Emerging
Level 1: Low
The percentage of your students at each level of social-emotional wellbeing is shown in the chart and first table; these include comparisons to our ‘All schools’ data. The second table provides a break down for your school by year level. You can click the Percentage and Count buttons to switch between the percentage of your students in the levels of wellbeing and the number of students in the levels of wellbeing.
Aspects or domains
In this section summaries for each of the following areas are provided.
Secondary survey aspects
- Negative feelings and behaviours
- Positive feelings and behaviours
- Emotional skills
- Learning Skills
- Social Skills
- Values
- Community
- Home
- School
Primary survey domains
- Feelings and behaviours
- Internal strengths
Within each Aspect or Domain student percentages and reported skills have been reported for the five levels of wellbeing.
Related article: SEW wellbeing levels
Choose an Aspect or Domain from the dropdown box to see the summary information.
A summary chart shows all students surveyed at your school and classified in each of the five levels of wellbeing, alongside a national benchmark figure from the pool labelled ‘All Schools’ – this pool includes over 38,000 students.
When reading these charts, you should compare each level of your own school’s results to those of the National ‘All Schools’ number. The hope is to have very few students recorded as ‘Low’.
Survey statement results
Each Aspect or Domain is then broken down further to show your students’ responses to each question or ‘item’ in the survey. Select an Aspect or Domain of interest and then select a survey question from the second dropdown menu.
Interpreting item charts
The percentage of students in each year level and gender (where relevant) are displayed together to assist staff to view differences in responses between student groups. This allows staff to gain an important overview of where intervention may be necessary.
The table directly below each graph shows the overall percentage of agreement to the specific statement from the survey for each group of students. This can be compared to the percentage agreement to the statement from the pool of ‘All schools’ data.
Overall agreement – your school
A tally of both the percentage of ‘Strongly Agree’ responses and ‘Agree’ responses. In the case of negatively worded statements (e.g. “I use drugs”), the majority of responses may be in disagreement, and so Overall Agreement could be low.
Overall agreement – all schools
A tally of a comparison pool of over 38 000 Australian students. This data provides the opportunity to track students’ responses against those of all the schools who have completed the survey.
Comparing against All Schools benchmark data
Year 7 boys at the example school were less likely to endorse this statement than the national pool of
Year 7 boys, in this example. Year 7 girls also show a lower level of endorsement to this statement than the national pool of Year 6 girls.
Comparing within year levels
The item above demonstrates that girls in year 7 at the example school are less likely than boys in
years 7 to consider themselves to be happy person.
Comparison data
it is important to note that when the general ‘All Schools’ population has a lower level of agreement than your school, the issue highlighted in the questionnaire’s statement may still require intervention and education and simply represent the fact that all students within Australia have a genuine need in this area.