WARNS Survey Results
Below are the surveys we have completed since 2017 when WSU took over management of the WARNS assessment. The objectives of our survey efforts are to collect information to help us respond to the needs of school districts and youth services providers who are addressing truancy, chronic absenteeism, and behavioral health problems in Washington state. Assessing current use of the WARNS system helps us to refine the assessment and ensure that it is continuing to perform as intended. You can access each survey report we have completed since 2017.
The 2022 User Survey was completed in June of that year. Updated from the 2018 and 2020 User Surveys, responses from the 2022 panel are helping the WSU WARNS team assess current use of the system, determine post-Covid-19 user needs, and inform work on the refinement and further development of the assessment as part of the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) grant award in July 2021.
2020 WARNS User Surveys
In February of 2020, we launched a survey of all 755 WARNS users in the State of Washington to collect information to help the WSU WARNS team respond to the needs of school districts and other youth services providers who are addressing truancy and chronic absenteeism in Washington state.
In March, soon after the survey launched, the state began ordering the shutdown of schools and other businesses in response to the Covid-19 outbreak. The WSU team decided a follow-up survey was needed to examine the impact of the school closures on students and the counselors who work with them.
The complete report for the 2020 WARNS User Survey is provided below. Also provided is the Executive Summary of the WARNS Covid-19 Impact Survey. All user comments are provided with the Executive Summary to allow the reader access to this rich source of information on the impact of the Covid-19 school closures on some of the state’s most at-risk students.
2018 WARNS Surveys
In the spring of 2018, two web surveys were implemented to collect information on the WARNS assessment from subscribers and non-subscribers of the WARNS/PSSO system. The objectives of the surveys were to collect information to help the WSU WARNS team respond to the needs of school districts and other youth services providers who are addressing the truancy problem in Washington state.