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Official QNSA standard
4.4.3

Students' voice, perceptions and engagement in school programs, and events (student council/ surveys).

Development and Welfare of Learners · Student Connectedness

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Official standard4.4.3

Students' voice, perceptions and engagement in school programs, and events (student council/ surveys).

Focus areas
  • Implementing a mechanism to communicate with students and attract their interest, and raise the level of satisfaction and participation in the school community (school activities, questionnaires, encouragement to expressing opinions/suggestion)
  • Forming a student council from different classes, levels and ages of students without discrimination.
  • Student council meets regularly with the school administration to make students’voice heard.
  • School administration takes into consideration issues that concern students to make the necessary and appropriate changes in order to raise their level of pride and satisfaction at school.
Suggested evidence
  • Meeting minutes (student council, administration).
  • Evidence proving the effectiveness of the student council’s role (providing additional services, new resources, modifying plans).
  • Direct observations.
  • Interviews.
  • School report card.
  • Surveys’ results. Five Management Resources Resources and Security
Self-reflection
  • What is the role of the student council at school? How effective is its role in communicating the voice of the remaining students to the school administration?
  • What are the activities that the student council is engaged in? How effective is it?
  • How does the student council provide opinions and suggestions to improve the quality of the educational process outcomes? How is it used?
  • How does school communicate with its students and measure their satisfaction? To what extent does this positively affect the educational process outcomes? What evidence is there to support this?
Official rubric
4
Highly Effective

Varied and effective mechanisms (surveys, records of engagement,..) are in place to communicate and gauge almost all students' satisfaction perceptions and their engagement in school programs and events.

School empowers students through active role of student council and effective utilization of data collected from surveys/question naires to drive decisions and make changes when necessary (develop/modify plans, programs and services) to raise the level of satisfaction of almost all students.

Student participation and satisfaction:

The level of participation in the questionnaire is high (70% and above)

The percentage of student satisfaction with all programs and services is high (Not less than 80%).

3
Effective

Varied mechanisms (surveys, records of engagement,..) are in place to communicate and gauge most students' perceptions and their engagement in school programs and events.

School empowers students through student council and data collected from surveys/question naires to drive decisions and make changes when necessary (develop/modify plans, programs and services) to raise the level of satisfaction of most students.

Student participation and satisfaction:

The level of participation in the questionnaire is (50% - 69 % )

The percentage of student satisfaction with all programs and services is (60%- 79%).

2
Somewhat Effective

Procedures are in place to gauge some students' perceptions and their engagement in school programs and events.

Some student empowerment/ student council role and some use of survey data in making changes resulting in satisfaction of some students.

Student participation and satisfaction:

The level of participation in the questionnaire is limited (30% - 49 % ).

The percentage of student satisfaction with all programs and services is (40% - 59%).

1
Ineffective

Limited/NO procedures to gauge students' perceptions and their engagement in school programs and events.

The school does not benefit from the feedback from students.

Inactive or no student council.

Student participation and satisfaction:

The level of participatio n in the questionnair e is less than30%.

The percentage of student satisfaction with all programs and services is less than (40%).

Focus source: 142, 143, 147Rubric source: 145, 146
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