Improving Student Experience: Cultivate Research & Background

Key Points 

• Transforming schools requires improving students’ daily experiences.
• Cultivate asks students questions about the aspects of their classroom that research shows matter for learning and well-being–dimensions of effective instruction called learning conditions–along with questions about their learning beliefs.
• An early study of Cultivate showed that the survey is a reliable and valid tool for capturing the learning conditions in classrooms that shape students’ academic beliefs, learning, and well-being.
• The latest research on Cultivate confirms just how crucial this focus on students’ daily experience is: Two years of data, gathered from more than 150,000 students shows that improvement in students’ experience of learning conditions over the course of a school year shapes corresponding improvements in learning beliefs and academic improvement.
• Cultivate–with its reliable and valid survey and suite of resources–gives educators an opportunity to partner with students to gather their feedback and engage in cycles of improvement.