Primary ICT Home Use Survey

[Paul Carolan]

Hi colleagues, 

I am wondering if anyone (preferably at primary level) has created and is willing to share an "ICT-use in the home" survey questionnaire? 

I also want to survey our school teaching staff on their ICT use and levels of proficiency in order to design some CPD around that. If anyone is willing to share templates or tips I would be very grateful.

Kind regards,

Paul

Paul Carolan

Learning Support & ICT Co-ordinator 

Aston Village ETNS

Drogheda

Co. Louth

[Imogen Bertin]

Hi Paul

I have a few thoughts. It may be worthwhile to incorporate some of the technology questions that the CSO uses in the Quarterly National Household Survey even though these are very broad so that you can compare your results to national (large scale) samples. 

http://www.cso.ie/en/surveysandmethodology/industry/ict-informationandcommunicationstechnologies/ 

I think you should look up Helen Beetham, the UK learning technologist, who has done a lot of work regarding digital preparedness of third level students and teachers. She spent time working for Exeter University thinking about how to survey these issues and whether it is useful. You will need to decide on what you want to measure and why. Don't waste people's time by asking questions that do not have a direct relationship to your objective. Extra questions debase the overall quality of the data you will get back especially for small samples like your colleagues.

http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/cascade/digitalcurriculum/teachingresources/whattypeofdigitallearnerareyou/digitallearnerquiz.php

and

http://projects.exeter.ac.uk/cascade/digitalscholars/researcherresources/digitalresearcherquiz.php

I came across Helen's work through doing the OcTEL MOOC on learning technology run by the UK Association for Learning Technology which I thoroughly recommend. I ran technology surveys for 3 years of adult education ICT classes myself, and from that experience here are a some thoughts. 

- Avoid very general questions but consider including one or two questions about conventional technology (phone/written) because they help you identify the learners likely to struggle who may need extra support.

- Do people back up at all? How? Everyone on this list has to support data loss problems and the emotional/learning consequences are as dramatic as the actual loss of data or rework required. There are so many easy ways to do it now that I think it should be part of all CPD/student inductions. 

- Ask about attitudes to privacy. About one-third (American general population surveys ad nauseam) of people are very concerned about privacy and this affects their relationship to technology and the time they are prepared to invest in it strongly. This particularly relates to the use of online discussion in education.

- Ask where people place themselves on the spectrum digital residents <-> digital visitors.

- Do they feel that they can judge the quality of online resources?

- Are they able to "re-find" information they have found online?

- If you are asking about use of video, a targeted 2 minute clip is a very different learning experience to a 30 minute documentary both in terms of the educational experience and the time investment. Make questions about video specific.

I can send on some other survey links if you need but I don't have primary-specific ones so maybe someone else on the list does.

Best wishes

Imogen

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[Paul Carolan]

Thank you Imogen for your kind insights and advice! Very much appreciated.

Regards,

Paul

[Glynn School]

I used the NCTE Roadmap as a basis for a questionnaire with the teachers. I found it very helpful as it showed the next step

Joe