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Transportable Gifts

by Bill Gerritz 10 January, 2008

I start my blogging year going to the core of ISB – transportable gifts.  In our vision, we promise these gifts to all our students, gifts of academic achievement, metacognition, and international mindedness  -- gifts that will prepare them for success at their next school.  Because so many ISB students stay for only a few years, our ultimate test is how successful our students are at their next schools.

While students learn at ISB, we gauge their acquisition of these gifts in many ways. However, the real results cannot be measured until students have spent several months in their NEXT schools. So the survey we do six months after a family has left USB offers the single, most important indicator of ISB’s success in achieving its vision.

This morning I analyzed the results of our most recent so-called “Leaver Survey.”  113 families participated. This represents slightly overhalf of all the families who left ISB January through June of 2007.

I will use the style of the Harper’s Magazine Index to share some of the results:

Percentage of families who said they would recommend ISB to friends:  97

Percentage of families who said their children were happy at ISB: 97

Percentage of families who said  their children achieved their academic potential at ISB: 83

Percentage of families who said their children became skilled at metacognition: 84

Percentage of families who said their children learned enthusiasm for world citizenship: 95

Proportion of families who thought their children’s preparation in reading was excellent to superb: 2 in 3

Proportion of families who thought their children’s preparation in math was excellent to superb: 2 in 3

Proportion of families who thought their children’s preparation in writing was excellent to superb: 2 in 3

 The survey also asked families to write specific comments and observations.  If you would like to see these as well as a full report on the numerical results, drop me an e-mail and I will send them right along (billg@isb.ac.th).

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