The most useful information these profiles can yield is on the qualities and characteristics what students cite as most admirable of the individuals that students select. Although the identities of those profiled are relatively unimportant the values they represent to the students are critical. There fore one easy way to analyze the results is to tally the number of times that particular characteristics or valuer such as honesty hard work courage enthusiasm and love of learning are mentioned in the profiles. This tally can provide a kind of straw poll of the values that students in your class most admire.