Student surveys
ASR was engaged to administer a multi-survey research project across a large, complex, decentralised education system. The project encompasses the design and implementation of surveys for students, parents, school staff, and office staff, culminating in the production of reports for several hundred schools and various office teams.
The project involved:
- Developing separate questionnaires for students, parents, school staff, and office staff.
- Parent questionnaires in five languages (Mandarin, Vietnamese, Filipino/Tagalog, Arabic and Spanish)
- Approximately 5,000 paper-copy questionnaires with prepaid envelopes, to be delivered to a central location
- A communication plan to increase participation and response rates
- Instructional and/or training resources for schools to ensure that surveys are administered in a similar way and simple to complete
- Online survey delivery
- Technical support during the survey period to handle queries from schools and participants regarding administering, accessing and/or completing the surveys
- Response rate data during the survey period, with data broken down by office directorate, or school and survey type
- Reminders sent to those who have not completed the survey during the survey period
- Data entry for surveys completed using paper questionnaires.
- Provision of clean unit record survey data in CSV format
- Provision of suite of PDF survey reports by school for students & parents, by office staff and by the system overall.