TEACHERS - What "prize" would inspire you to fill in a short survey?

[mumma2me]

Just wondering what would inspire you to fill in a survey?

What's your price limit?

no price limit, just what would tempt you to fill in -

free school resources
something free for you? etc...

Oh, I see. This is my job, and we offer both. In theory it's for the teacher as an individual, but it's something useful for their teaching, IYSWIM.

We find you can offer one stonking great prize or a lot of very small things, and both work very well. The advantage of the stonking great prize is that then people tell their colleagues to fill it in as well, in the hope of getting it for their school.

I want a visualiser. For myself, it's always the desirable pens (staedtler ones in a rigid box).

The purpose of the survey would be to get first hand answers from the users ie the teacher on resources.

The response rate is always very low so tagging along a "prize" may incite more completed questionnaires???

What about:

free Resources for the school
vouchers ie M&S, Debenhams, Amazon etc...
free iPad or Kindle perhaps

How low is your response rate? We count around 20% as an excellent response rate, and we find that offering something substantial and desireable (e.g. bit of equipment costing £300) would usually achieve that. But then, as I say, we got almost equally high response rates offering a small but very nice resource to about 1/3 of the people that replied.

The Nfer surveys give everyone who completes either a £5 donation to the charity of their choice or a £5 Amaon voucher. Not being overly altruistic I take the voucher and it definitely inspires me to fill it in!

Amazon voucher