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2004 Survey of Random Student
Drug Testing in Illinois |
For the third time since 1995, the Illinois Association of School Boards has assisted
researchers at Western Illinois University in studying student drug testing in Illinois.
Results of the 2004 survey are available here in frequency response tables that may be
downloaded as:
RESEARCHERS -- IASB is extremely grateful to the following authors of this study
for sharing the results of their work:
Steven D. Rittenmeyer is professor of educational leadership at Western Illinois
University, Macomb, and formerly an attorney with the firm of Robbins, Schwartz, Nicholas,
Lifton and Taylor.
Mathew J. O'Brien is a graduate student in school psychology at WIU and a
certified drug and alcohol rehabilitation counselor.
PARTICIPANTS -- Participants in the 2004 study consisted of 41 Illinois school
districts that had responded to a 2000 survey by indicating that they had random drug
testing programs or were interested in implementing one. Each of those 41 school districts
was mailed a questionnaire in February 2004 and a total of 31 questionnaires were
returned, representing a response rate of 76%.
Among the 31 school districts that responded to the survey, twenty-two (71%) indicated
that they currently perform random drug tests on students, seven (23%) signified that they
have never conducted random drug testing, and two districts (6%) reported that they
formerly conducted random drug testing but have abandoned the practice.
The 22 school districts that reported a current random drug testing program provided
the selected sample for this study.
INSTRUMENT -- A brief survey was constructed to collect information from
district administrators about the characteristics of their random drug testing programs --
that is, the length of time the programs had been in existence, which students are being
tested, who is conducting the testing, what drugs are being sought, the effectiveness of
the programs, the perceptions of internal and external stakeholders and the
benefits/detriments of a testing program. In total, the survey included thirty-five
questions.
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