Wellness Wave Index

"The Tide that Lifts All Learners."

The Wellness Wave Index provides educational institutions to accurately measure their well-being and detect their areas of strengths and weaknesses. This is the primal step of any improvement target. This programme provides a universal questionnaire and interprets relevant data to produce a composite index, much like the HDI. It has been run effectively in Cambridge School of Bucharest, Romania.

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2024

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Target group

Students upper

Updated

April 2024

Our hopes are to make our index internationally accessible to help schools self-improve. Its student-based initiative will give students a unique opportunity for development, while contributing to the school’s continuous improvement for current and future generations. In addition, we would like to help students have a better understanding of wellbeing, its implications and the way to improve it

About the innovation

Why did you create this innovation?

Every institution is stronger in some areas than in others. Our belief is that to target solutions, weak points need to be identified first. We created this index in order to know exactly what areas to prioritize in student well-being. We then planned to run it in other schools internationally and have a comparable measure that may be able to identify the specific needs of schools around the world

What does your innovation look like in practice?

We distributed a survey made up of 39 questions split into 9 sections to gather conclusive evidence. As a result, we generated 172 responses from all across our high school. All the answers from the survey were mostly answers ranging from five choices(eg. Strongly Disagree, Disagree, Neutral, Agree, Strongly Agree).Then, each of these answers were switched with a value according to their relevance.We also managed to come up with an average for each question. For each category we have calculated an average from all the values from each question. For instance, academic wellbeing had a score of 3.33112 out of 5. The same was done for the remaining categories.Using this data and additional weights put in place to reflect each categories’ importance backed up by literary review, we have calculated a Final Index Value using the same method used when calculating the HDI.In conclusion, our Final Index Value for CSB is: 0.579336114 out of a maximum value of 1.

How has it been spreading?

Since our project has been initiated this year, it is still in its early stages, but we have gotten in contact with other international schools in Romania and this index will be carried out in them in the short-term future. As we are guided by the national coordinator for the International Economics Olympiad and the IB coordinator of our school, it would thus be available for us to spread our programme internationally.

If I want to try it, what should I do?

To adopt our initiative, Miss Alexandra Dache, our head coordinator, needs to be contacted via e-mail. The questionnaire, sample report and index methodology can be sent by e-mail with ease and quickly be run in any educational institutions interested.

Implementation steps

Survey Completion

Firstly, the school should distribute the survey among pupils (for example, by posting it on generally accessible platforms (such as Microsoft Teams), send it via email or conduct in IT labs in school). Students should take 5-10 minutes complete the survey.

Student Analysis

Results should be automatically plotted on an Excel spreadsheet, which can further be analysed by school staff or student union initiatives to develop an effective analysis. To have uniform analyses, they can calculate percentages and numbers of students with specific answers for each question. For example, what percentage of students answered with ‘Strongly Agree’ for the question: “I feel happier and more fulfilled after being in my friends’ presence”.

Correlations

Then, important correlations and main conclusions can be devised to provide an even clearer summary of areas of improvement.

Quantifying Answers

In our survey, respondents provided qualitative responses on a five-point scale ranging from "Strongly Disagree" to "Strongly Agree." To quantify these responses, each option was assigned a corresponding numerical value: "Strongly Disagree" = 1, "Disagree" = 2, "Neutral" = 3, "Agree" = 4, and "Strongly Agree" = 5. Utilizing Excel's Average function, the school computed the average score out of 5 for each question within all categories.

Final averages

Afterwards, the school determined the average score for each category by adding all averages together, and dividing by the number of questions per category. Using the final average value from each category, the school decided to derive a comprehensive measure similar to the Human Development Index (HDI). Firstly, the school gave each category different weights to reflect their significance.

Weighing Up Categories

Firstly, the school gave each category different weights to reflect their significance. Social, academic, and mental well-being are prioritized with a weights of 20% each, mirroring insights from the OECD Programme of International Studend Assessment from 2015. Moreover, sports, sense of purpose, and overall well-being hold equal weights of 10% each, which are lower due to the fact that sense of purpose and overall wellbeing may be biased (self reported response). And so on with each category

Calculation of Index and Management/ Improvement Techniques

Ultimately, using these weights we calculated the Final Average Score of 3.35, and by comparing it to the Lowest Potential Score of 1, and the Maximum Potential score of 5, we arrived at a Final Invex Value for our survey of 0.58. Then, based off the data the school can establish certain techniques to better youth welfare.