Measure What Helps Students Thrive
The Gallup Student Poll captures student voice at scale, representing more than 1.6 million students across nearly 3,400 schools, 657 districts and 49 states. It measures student engagement, belonging, peer relationships, hope and financial literacy, which reliably predict student success.
Understand the Student Experience
The student experience reflects how students feel about school each day and strongly predicts their success. Gallup Student Poll research shows this experience comes down to key questions such as:
- Do students feel that adults at school care about them?
- Do they feel like they belong?
- Do they have hope for their future?
- Do they have positive relationships with their peers?
- Do they feel confident managing money and planning ahead?
Measuring these elements can accelerate your school's efforts to support student success. Nine in 10 U.S. school district superintendents say engagement, hope and graduation rate are "very important" measures of school effectiveness. Hopeful students are 3.6 times more likely than their discouraged peers to say they get excellent grades.
Gallup Education data and analytics link students' engagement and hope for the future to achievement, grades, absenteeism and plans after high school. As a student voice survey, the Gallup Student Poll shows what your students need, giving your institution information to improve their experiences and support their success.
Support Student Success With Evidence-Based Insights
Schools use the Gallup Student Poll as a student engagement survey and student experience survey to better understand students' experiences, identify opportunities for improvement, and monitor progress over time. Gallup works with schools to measure what matters most to their students.
Customized results provide actionable data and insights leaders and educators can use to build engagement, create hope, and increase a sense of belonging.
Social issues, global crises, rapidly changing technology and remote learning continue to reshape education. Now more than ever, educators need a clear understanding of students' experiences so they can help students realize their best future.
"Measurement improves performance. As soon as you begin to get a score, people begin to get better at what they do. People will get good at what you measure."
— Don Clifton, Father of Strengths Psychology and Inventor of CliftonStrengths
Measure the Factors Linked to Student Success
The Gallup Student Poll measures the experiences most closely linked to student success, sense of belonging, and future readiness.
Student Engagement
Students' involvement in and enthusiasm for school.
Engaged students are 1.9 times more likely to report excellent grades than actively disengaged peers.
Student Hope
The ideas and energy students have for the future.
Hopeful students are 3.3 times more likely to report excellent grades than discouraged peers.
Peer Relationships
How students learn to understand and manage emotions and establish positive relationships with others.
Students with strong peer relationships are more likely to feel safe, supported, and motivated to participate in school life.
Financial Literacy
The knowledge, skills, and confidence to make informed financial decisions.
Students with strong financial literacy are better equipped to build independence and economic security after graduation.
"Nothing happens until someone expects something of you in ways you can achieve."
— Don Clifton, Father of Strengths Psychology and Inventor of CliftonStrengths
Success begins with setting the right expectations based on measures that confirm what matters most to your students. Get informed so you can expect the things from your students that will help them be engaged and hopeful learners for the rest of their lives.
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