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Can The School Survey Results Be Trusted?

VentnorBlog have discovered an inconsistency in the number of questionnaires that the Council say were distributed.

More info over at VentnorBlog.com

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2 Responses to “Can The School Survey Results Be Trusted?”

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    Facts are meaningless..they can be used to prove anything - Homer Simpson Says:
    March 10th, 2008 at 10:40 pm

    Just a few observations:

    • Press Release: Why does this only focus on the question about options? Did we waste our time answering the rest?

    • 88% - fairly or very important to retain schools within local communities – factors for improving education

    • 80% - fairly or very important to reduce the need for younger pupil travel

    • “Retaining schools within local communities appears to be the most important factor / action” – this is not mentioned in the press release.

    • “This (retaining local schools) supports findings from the first part of the question, where 88% of all respondents* rated this as important to improving education on the Island.” * Richard Bryan, Managing Director of QA Research said, “The survey has given the council a robust and representative indication of local residents’ views. A sample size of 1,100 would have given the council a sufficient steer but the level of responses at nearly three times that ensures accuracy of representation to within +/-2% of all residents’ views.”

    • Was the survey sent to 14,000 (Exec summary) or 11,000 (main analysis section)?

    • Press Release: “9% indicated they had no preference” – was it not agreed (on IW Radio, albeit very late in the process) that this could be selected to indicate you disagreed with all options? It should not necessarily be interpreted as indicating apathy, additionally a proportion of respondents did not answer this question – what comments did these people make?

    • When will we receive answers / responses to the “further comments” section – 2,411 base? Especially about closing schools that are performing well, communities, bias of survey and travel.

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    Jim Khanna Says:
    March 11th, 2008 at 1:37 pm

    I never saw one of these Questionaires, never mind filling it in-
    Who’s to say they ever existed . .?

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