Using D-vibe in the Classroom

If you are an education professional this survey has also been designed to support you in your drug education in a number of ways and we have provided you with some downloadable activities to help you use the D-Vibe Online Survey as part of your planned curriculum.

By integrating the survey into your classroom activities you can use the data in a number of ways.

• to collect baseline data from which to plan and evaluate your drug education or make a case for extending your existing provision based on pupils needs.
• to create statistical data that can be analysed and presented by students as part of a wide range of subjects across the curriculum, including PSHE, mathematics, ict, citizenship, humanities and many more.
• to create the starting focus for drug education lessons, encouraging students to discuss and consider a broad range of drug education issues, their own knowledge, attitudes and skills.
• To evaluate your planned drug education over a single year or key stage to ensure it is relevant to the pupils needs and effective in increasing their resilience (resilience scores are built into the reports to give you a snapshot of how pupil's knowledge, skills and protective attitudes have increased between the baseline and follow up surveys for any cohort.

More on resilience Scores

The resilience score is a simple calculation of the resilience of a cohort in relation to the risk of drugs and alcohol. We have selected and added up a range of 'ideal answers' across the survey to capture their positive, protective knowledge, skills and attitudes in relation to drugs and alcohol. This includes:

• their knowledge of the effects, dangers and legal status of substances,
• their knowledge of services and support available to them
• their beliefs about the social acceptability of drugs and alcohol
• their knowledge of safety around alcohol and recommended intake
• their ability to recognise and respond to potential risk situations associated with drugs and alcohol

The number of 'ideal' or correct answers is added together and shown as part of a maximum to give a snapshot of the resilience of the group. Because D-Vibe is designed to be used as a pre- and post-test evaluative tool, to plan an intervention/curriculum and then to test it's effectiveness by repeating the survey, this score will be repeated and compared to show how the intervention has increased the resilience of the group overall.