This fact sheet details the laws that apply to administering surveys to students in schools and school districts using passive parental consent. The Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health Student Survey, the Youth Risk Behavior Survey (YRBS), and Youth Tobacco Survey (YTS) all use passive parental consent when they are administered in the schools.
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Each classroom will receive a survey packet. The online survey packet includes a set of instructions and script for the survey administer to read to students. Online administration will follow these steps: 1. Verify that all the students taking the survey have permission to participate. Those who do not have permission to participate, and those
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Thank you for your assistance with this project. Please read through the following instructions completely. The data collected from the Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health Student Survey provides important information used to plan and evaluate drug, alcohol, tobacco, and violence prevention programming for your school and community. To make the data comparable to previous years and within
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The honesty of survey respondents is always a concern in survey research. The Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health Student Survey uses a variety of procedures to encourage students to respond honestly. Based on these procedures as well as other evidence explained below, it is expected that the vast majority of students will answer the Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health
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This is a list of Frequently Asked Questions about the Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health Student Survey. This document addresses the most common concerns from schools and school districts as they consider participating in the Bismarck-Burleigh Public Health Student Survey, and also as they administer the survey.
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What to do with non-participants Need to have an alternate activity for students without consent or who choose not to participate Alternate activity cannot be punitive in any way Alternate activity should not disturb the other students who are responding to the survey Examples of alternate activities: Independent reading Time to complete homework Time at
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