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The FACULTY of MANAGEMENT Teachers' ICT skills and knowledge needs Final Report to SOEID Appendix 3 | ||
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Appendix 3: The primary teacher sample
A sample of 300 primary schools was chosen at random from a list of all (2313) primary schools in Scotland. Seven questionnaires were sent to each school to be distributed to teachers across the primary stages. Of the 2100 questionnaires distributed 352 were completed and returned. This represents 18% of all questionnaires sent out to schools. However, this is less than the actual response rate since many of the 300 schools have fewer than seven teachers. In fact a third of Scottish primary schools have fewer than 100 pupils and hence likely to have fewer than seven teachers.
Respondents teach in schools across the full range of size of school, as may be seen in Table 1(P):
Table 1(P) Distribution of primary sample across size of school
They also teach across the whole range of stages in the primary school, as seen in Table 2(P):
Table 2(P) Stages currently taught by primary sample
The vast majority of the teachers are female (93%) and their ages are distributed as shown in Table 3(P).
Table 3(P) Distribution of primary sample across age of teacher
Over two thirds of them have been teaching for more than ten years and just over 2% are in their first year of teaching. Nearly 90% described their teaching as predominantly full-time.
Nearly a fifth of the respondents are senior teachers and a further 12% are either assistant or deputy headteachers, or headteachers.
Half of them currently teach in a school in a town location, nearly 30% in a rural school, 17% in a city school and 2% (six teachers) in an island school. The number of schools in which they have previously taught in is shown in Table 4(P).
Table 4(P) Distribution of primary sample across number of schools previously taught in
Again, the location of these schools covered all locations with 40% of respondents having taught in a rural school, nearly two thirds in a town school, a third in a city school and 2% in an island school.
Ninety three per cent of respondents have undertaken their initial teacher education at a Scottish Higher Education Institution and the remainder at an HEI in England or Wales. Their qualifications are shown in Table 5(P).
Table 5(P) Qualifications of primary sample
The majority (58%) of primary teachers in the sample have a College Dip Ed. The most common of the 'other' qualifications listed are PG Diplomas and Certificates (12 and 3 respondents respectively).
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