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MINNESOTA 2010 STUDENT SURVEY
The Minnesota Student Survey (MSS) is administered every three years to students in 6th, 9th, and 12th grades. In the 2010 administration, 89 percent of school districts in the state participated in the survey. Of those students participating:
- 42.9% reported no involvement in bullying.
- 30.7% said they had made fun of, teased, or excluded others once or twice in the last month.
- 27.2% said they had experienced those things once or twice in the past month, which does not constitute bullying or victimization at this rate.
Of those remaining:
- 12.6% were classified as victims (were made fun of, teased in a hurtful way, or excluded from friends or activities by others with a frequency of weekly or more).
- 9.3% were classified as bullies (engaged in the actions listed above toward victims with a frequency of weekly or more).
- 3.1% were bully/victims (bullied and victimized at least weekly).
Throughout the reports in this series, several findings emerged consistently.
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Students regularly involved in bullying incidents, whether victim, offender or bully/victim (bullying-involved students), have high rates of associated experiences, most of them negative.
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The data in these reports indicate that those classified as bullies have been victims of maltreatment themselves, in many cases.
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Bully/victims stand alone as the most at-risk group in every domain.
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On a positive note, nearly half of all students responding had no involvement with bullying as a victim or a bully. This group benefits from not being a target or engaging in bullying activities, but also seems to be supported by assets in home, school, community, and peer contexts. Across analyses, the “never involved”group had the lowest incidence of risk factors and the highest frequency of protective factors.
MN DEPT. OF EDUCATION PBIS INITIATIVE
In 2004, the Minnesota Department of Education (MDE) established a partnership with Dr. George Sugai, Co-Director of the National Technical Assistance Center for Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (PBIS). Dr. Sugai has consulted with MDE to establish a State Leadership Team and to develop a state action plan based on the National PBIS Blueprint to support schools and programs that demonstrate readiness to implement School-wide Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports (SW-PBIS). The State Leadership Team guides and coordinates PBIS efforts across Minnesota. The team represents educators, families, administrators, trainers, coaches and evaluators to support the successful implementation of PBIS in our state. The leadership team is responsible for reviewing applications for annual training, and for selecting school teams that have engaged in exploratory and preparation activities which have generated staff buy-in.
2010_MN_Student_Survey__SUMMARY.pdf
Executive Summary of the 2010 MN Student Survey, provided by the MN Department of Education.
2010_MN_Student_Survey_SCHOOL_FACTORS.pdf
School Factors in the 2010 MN Student Survey data, analysis provided by the MN Department of Education.
MN_PBIS_Initiative.pdf
MN PBIS Initiative: Summary 2004-2011
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| Student Survey Data | For more detail and analysis of the 2010 MN Student Survey, scroll to the Executive Summary and School Factors documents below. Also, visit the MN Department of Education Web, under Student Success.
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