2010 ESF Stakeholders Survey

The 2010 ESF Stakeholders Survey was very successful, eliciting a largely positive response. Improvements made over the 2008 pilot survey yielded useful results that will help ESF Centre and the individual ESF schools understand what is being done well and where there is cause for investigation and/or improvement.

 

Schools will be reflective and act on matters of concern.   Where stakeholders have perceptions that are different from school leadership teams, engagement with those stakeholders is necessary. Communication may need improvement as well.

 

ESF and the individual schools will respond to the findings. School Councils will discuss with leadership teams the development priorities of the school and how survey findings connect to their development. This data will also be reflected in the Educational Development Plan and the work of the Education Team.

 

We are grateful to all those who participated. We will evaluate the survey for additional improvements for 2010, including feedback from principals and other groups.

 

·         The only significant difference between the 2008 and 2010 results is that teachers and support staff responded in a slightly more positive way this year. 

·         All stakeholders generally have a very positive perception of the education ESF offers – 81% of all stakeholders strongly agree or agree with the all the survey statements.

·         Teachers and primary students are the most positive, with more than 85% answering strongly agree or agree.

·         Approximately 80% of parents and support staff answered strongly agree or agree. The variation from the above two groups is due to more parents and staff choosing unable to comment.

·         Consistent with results from education surveys worldwide, secondary students were the least positive, with 74% answering strongly agree or agree with the statements.

·         Looking at the percentage of positive responses (i.e. strongly agree or agree) for all statements: 65% elicited a positive response of 80% or above; 30% (or 78 statements) fell in the 60-79% range and need to be considered for possible action; 5% (or 14 statements) elicited a negative response at less than 60% and are considered areas of concern that are in need of attention.

·         Statements relating to “Learning” and “Student and Community Life” had the strongest positive response, with “Learning” being the most positive section consistently across all stakeholder groups.