During a designated polling period in the fall of each year, the Gallup Student Poll will go live via a secure website. Public School students in grades 5 through 12 will complete the survey on a personal computer in a school classroom or computer lab. Completion of the Gallup Student Poll items (core 20 items, demographic items, and potentially one randomly assigned index item) will take students approximately 10 minutes. Consent/assent issues need to be resolved prior to the polling week.
All data will be stored, aggregated, and analyzed (typically at the school and district levels) by Gallup software and professionals. Gallup will share the results with principals and superintendents via an online scorecard on a national reporting day.
District and school administrators will register an account through the Gallup Student Poll Web site by providing the school's National District ID and/or National School ID numbers, as well as general school information. Even if a district as a whole is not participating, individual schools from that district can register and participate.
The survey can be accessed through the Gallup Student Poll Web site immediately after the account has been registered and a field period is chosen.
How Do I Sign Up?
To sign up your district or school for the Gallup Student Poll, you will need to register an account on this Web site. Please note that the first person to register an account is automatically made the Primary Administrative User for the district or school they are registering.
During the registration process, please have your National District ID and/or National School ID available. If you do not know your National ID, please see the instructions below. Select Register Here to begin the registration process.
Once you have registered your account, you may invite other users to register an account, and you may select administration dates for your school or the schools in your district.
Find Your School or District National ID
When you register your school/district on this Web site, you will need to provide your school's National District ID and/or National School ID. These are maintained by the National Center for Educational Statistics (NCES).
To find your school's or district's National IDs, use the search tools on the NCES Web site at http://nces.ed.gov/ccd/schoolsearch.
Note: The NCES Web site indicates the National District ID as NCES District ID, and the National School ID as NCES School ID.
Survey Dates
Districts and schools have a choice of dates to administer their survey. For each of the field periods, the survey will be available from Tuesday through Friday during school hours only.
2011 ADMINISTRATION DATES
Tuesday, October 4, 2011 through Friday, October 21, 2011
Tuesday, October 11, 2011 through Friday, October 28, 2011
Tuesday, October 18, 2011 through Friday, November 4, 2011
