Student voice is essential for creating a positive and supportive classroom environment. When students feel like they have a say in their own learning, they are more engaged and motivated. Student voice can also help to identify areas where the classroom environment or curriculum can be improved.

Why focus on learner experience?

• Traditional ways of measuring student success, like test scores and grades, don’t always tell us the whole story. 
• The way students feel about their school life can predict how well they will do in the future. 
• Listening to students’ voices helps us to create schools that are more inclusive and welcoming for all students. 
• Focusing on student experience helps us to see the big picture of education.

The Leaps Student Voice Survey comes with user-friendly, effective features that allow you to:

• Assess student experience across all 10 Leaps to understand overall experiences or hone in on priority Leaps for in-depth data.
• Ask student-centered questions validated with learners in grades 3+.
• Identify disparities in experiences among subgroups by disaggregating data based on factors such as race, ethnicity, or grade.
• Efficiently track and measure the development and progress of educational initiatives by implementing longitudinal surveys.
• Implement simply with a web-based survey that includes automated, real time response tracking.
• Offer the survey in English and Spanish.
• Pair with an adult survey tool to gather staff and community voice to give leaders a 360 view of sentiment in their community.

The survey is designed to empower real-time exploration, facilitate understanding, and adapt to reporting needs at various levels. Reporting and analysis features include:

• Automated dashboards that allow users to explore the results in real time.
• Easy-to-understand results with the ability to explore multiple disaggregation and levels of the data.
• Options to share reports at multiple levels—at the district, school, or classroom level.

Curious about the design, development, and on-going validation of the Leaps Student Survey? 

The Leaps Student Survey elevates the voices of students about their experiences in school through the lens of the 10 Leaps for Equitable, 21st Century Learning. The survey system consists of eleven scales, each of which measures a different aspect of student experience on a particular Leap.

The validation process included examining the content of the survey items, the cognitive processes involved in responding to the items, the internal structure of the scales, the reliability of the scales, and the relationships between the scales and other variables. Below are two technical reports describing this process.