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The School of Information and Media,
The FACULTY of MANAGEMENT Teachers' ICT skills and knowledge needs Final Report to SOEID Appendix 4 | ||
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Appendix 4: The secondary teacher sample A sample of 100 secondary schools was chosen at random from a list of all (403) secondary schools in Scotland. Nine questionnaires were sent to each school to be distributed to teachers across the subject areas. Of the 900 questionnaires distributed 329 were completed and returned. This represents 37 % of all questionnaires sent out. As with the primary sample, this is less than the actual response rate since some of the 100 schools have fewer than nine teachers. Although the actual rates for both the primary and secondary surveys are not known it would appear that the response rate is higher for the secondary teachers.
Secondary respondents taught in schools across the full range of size of school, as may be seen in Table 1(S).
Table 1(S) Distribution of secondary sample across size of school
and also across the whole range of year groups in the secondary school as may be seen in Table 2(S)
Table 2(S) Year groups currently taught by secondary sample
About half of the teachers are female (48%) and their ages are distributed as shown in Table 3(S). This age profile is similar to that of the primary sample.
Table 3(S) Distribution of secondary sample across age of teacher
Seventy seven per cent of the secondary sample have been teaching for more than ten years and 13% have been teaching for less than five years. Ninety five per cent described their teaching as predominantly full-time.
Twenty nine per cent are teachers (compared with 69% of the primary sample) and 46% are principal teachers with the remainder being either senior teachers, assistant principal teachers, assistant or depute headteachers.
Over half (56%) of them currently teach in a school in a town location, nearly a quarter (24%) in a city school, 16 % in a rural school and 2% (six teachers) in an island school. As would be expected the secondary sample is less rural than the primary sample.
The number of schools they have previously taught in is shown in Table 4(S).
Table 4(S) Distribution of secondary sample across number of schools previously taught in
The secondary teachers appear to have taught in fewer schools than the primary teachers. A quarter of them having taught in four or more schools previously, compared with 38% of primary school teachers.
As in the primary sample, the secondary sample covers all types of locations. Twenty-six per cent (compared with 40% of the primary sample) of respondents had previously taught in a rural school, about 60% (compared with nearly two thirds in the primary sample) in a town school, 40% (compared with a third of the primary sample) in a city school and 2% in an island school.
Ninety five 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 (5%) or outwith the UK (1%). Their qualifications are shown in Table 5(S).
Table 5(S) Qualifications of secondary sample
The most common of the 'other' qualifications listed were PG Diplomas and Certificates (38 and 10 respondents respectively). Eight of the 38 PG Dips are Dip Com, and four are PG Dip in Computer Education, reflecting the high proportion of Business Studies and Computing teachers in the sample.
The profile of qualifications of the secondary sample is very different from that of the primary sample, as would be expected, with nearly two thirds of the secondary teachers having a BA, BSc or MA degree, compared with 16% of the primary sample.
The subjects taught Up to three subjects were coded for each respondent, the results are shown in Table 6(S)
Table 6(S) Subjects taught by secondary sample
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