Do you have a child at State primary school? Fill in a survey and have the chance to win £250 of vouchers

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The Independent Review of the Primary Curriculum has devised a survey for parents and would like your views. If you have a child in a state primary school, and would like the chance to win £250 of vouchers for SpaceNK, Boden or The White Company, please fill it in now.

I told them to go to my kids school. It is fantastic.

I'd beware of filling in anything like this -are you REALLY sure this is a bona fide website? I'd check first in case it's email address 'fishers'. BEWARE.

confusing!

I wrote an essay
I deserve to win

agree BBee difficult to ascertain what it wanted

Done.

don't think it was THAT confusing tbh.

Really REALLY badly designed scales at the end. Here is what I wrote :

Your question structure is bizarre! By asking people to select five then rank them, you are asking people to make too many choices and producing meaningless answers. It is difficult to put the most/least important in the SAME rank when choosing from a bigger list because the ranking itself becomes meaningless. For example, if I choose something that is only a 4 (not very important) then am I saying it is more or less important than one of the ones that I haven't ticked? I have empathy, respect and tolerance as a 5. But that does not mean it is least important. It is only least important of the important things. One the other hand, I have SATs as a 5 on the other scale. This is because I do think this is the OVERALL least important thing: abolish them NOW! But this is not the same least important as on the previous question. Thus these scales are open to all kinds of misinterpretation. Madness. I speak as someone who does research for a living and has designed a number of questionnaires.

The most important things are to abolish SATs at primary level, but retain the ability for teachers themselves to measure ability; to vastly increase the amount of sport and exercise; to move away from the idea that choice is a good thing. Children don't need choice, they need high quality and people who know what that is guiding them.

oh dear - need to be told to get off my soap box. Think I need to book a time to see dd's teacher - have just bared my sole to the wrong person!

Done wasn't too bad I too would like to see the end of SATS more Arts,Drama and Sport:-)

I use Survey Monkey quite a lot - with a bit of thought and testing of the survey they could have used different question styles to make this much clearer. Shocking survey design. The results will be very difficult to interpret.

Really poor survey.
I will know not to read to much into the expensively-produced research then

I got stuck on question 5 and gave up

glad I wasn't the only one

phew.seems a bit manipulative to me -in q5 andq6.should have been in 'importance to you' not 'least important'.
done anyway.

Crappity survey - but enjoyed posting in comments box:
'I personally believe that SATs and formal testing are part of the 'mcdonaldsisation' of education, which is prevalent in all aspects of our current culture and leads people to believe that process is an adequate substitute for experience, intelligence and applied common sense.'

Love any opportunity to rant

I can only agree with everyone else - what a badly designed survey which will inevitablely lead to badly formed conclusions

Q 5 is not working you can't put the same numer of importance for two Q in a row

I got to Q5 and gave up, sorry.

Shame really as the topic is something lots of people have views on.

badly designed. does that mean that something is less important than something else least important?
would question the value of results. did it anyway because i'd really like £250 thanks.

I think it is reasonably obvious that in q 5 & 6 you are choosing the top 5 most important things. The ones you don't tick are 6th to 10th (or however many options there were) most important ... ie least important.

However the overlap in the options was very unhelpful - eg. respect, tolerance etc. is part of learning to get on with other people and it was very difficult to answer that question.

Yes but I felt it was impossible to choose 5 and then rate them in order of preference as I felt most of them were extremely important.

A bit of a rubbish survey. And aren't they aiming at a very particular sort of respondent with White Company, Boden and Space NK vouchers?

Am I the only one who read the subject line and thought it was going on to say..."Do you have a child at a state primary school? Fill in a survey and have the chance to win them a private education."?

lol

"One thing's very clear from the teachers at my son's excellent school - they are dedicated, professional and eager to see the children achieve their full potential.

I would like to see more emphasis on "whole subject" learning, a step which has been taken in recent curriculum changes, but I think more could be done to ensure that learning opportunities aren't missed for young children because the teachers daren't deviate from the curriculum too much.

Other countries manage to turn out well-rounded individuals despite children not starting school until they're 6 or 7. Yet in the UK, our children are being pushed to start school younger and younger, they are squeezed to fit the curriculum - and we're a poorer society as a result."

Agree survey design not good though!

Thanks for the feedback on the survey, I did warn them that there might be complaints but they'd already distributed it elsewhere so it was too late to amend. I can absolutely confirm that it is a bona fide government-funded survey and non of your personal details will be passed on to any third party other than to distribute the prize to the winner.

Hope that helps and thanks again for taking the time both to fill in the survey and to offer feedback.

Typical Labour party influenced, badly worded/thought out questions!