GO FIGURE: Karina Kling shares Table 2 of the Revalidation of the Cultivate Survey

Students’ experiences of their learning conditions are critical levers for shaping their learning-related beliefs, which drive their long-run social and academic development. To this end, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) has administered Cultivate, a rigorously developed student voice survey that captures students’ experiences of their learning conditions, twice annually (fall and spring) since the 2022-23 academic year. The Cultivate Survey is grounded in extensive research on youth development, finding that: 1) young people are expert reporters of their own experiences, and 2) leveraging student insights and partnership is important for creating spaces where they can thrive.

Cultivate is designed to enhance the work that is being done in schools to strengthen adult-student relationships and promote student learning and well-being. It equips educators and students with a tool to help them work together to improve classroom learning conditions. The survey gathers students’ experiences of nine dimensions of classroom instructional environments: Meaningful Work, Learning Goals, Well-Organized Classroom, Supportive Teaching, Feedback for Growth, Classroom Community, Student Voice, Teacher Caring, and Affirming Identities. It also gathers students’ learning-related beliefs about themselves—including their beliefs about being valued—which are shaped by these learning conditions.

In this video, Karina Kling explains Table 2 of our research brief, "Early Insights from the Revalidation of the Cultivate Survey."

Download a PDF of the brief on our website: https://consortium.uchicago.edu/publi...