How to Create Effective Distance Learning Parent Surveys
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The document discusses the importance of creating effective distance learning parent surveys to collect feedback from parents who have taken on teaching roles during remote education. Tips for increasing engagement include clearly communicating the survey's value, keeping it concise, and sharing results with participants. The document also provides examples of useful survey questions that can help schools better understand parents' concerns and successes during this time.
How to Create Effective Distance Learning Parent Surveys
- 1. © 2019 Dyknow – Proprietary and Confidential | 1 How to Create Effective Distance Learning Parent Surveys
- 2. © 2019 Dyknow – Proprietary and Confidential | 2 During this time of distance learning, parents have, in a way, taken on the additional role of a teacher. It is just as important to be collecting feedback from parents regarding distance learning as it is to collect similar feedback from teachers. An effective way to gather this feedback is by creating and distributing a distance learning parent survey.
- 3. Author and Curriculum Director at Libertyville District 70, Dr. Erik Youngman, explained their use of distance learning parent surveys to, “inform potential change in the spirit of continuous improvement.”
- 4. Dr. Youngman’s school district has gained impactful feedback from these surveys, but the question still stands: how do I create an effective distance learning parent survey?
- 5. © 2019 Dyknow – Proprietary and Confidential | 5 Marketing director and content strategist for Campus Suite, Jay Cooper, gives some great tips on how to create effective distance learning parent surveys to increase engagement.
- 6. 1. Tell parents what’s in it for them Jay explains that it is crucial to let the parents know the importance of the survey and their participance. An increase in engagement is likely if the parents understand the impact of the survey.
- 7. 2. Make the survey short and sweet Parents are being pulled in multiple directions during this time of distance learning. A shorter survey that gets right to the point is more likely to have engagement by more parents. You may want to also preface the survey with an estimated time length to take the survey.
- 8. 3. Share the results Make sure to share the outcome of the distant learning parent survey as they will want to see the perspectives of other parents as well. It can be very beneficial for the participants to see these results to understand the importance of the survey.
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- 10. What Questions Should We be Asking Parents?
- 11. © 2019 Dyknow – Proprietary and Confidential | 11 With Dr. Youngman’s school district reaching over 300 parents and 90 staff respondents with their distance learning parent survey, they found great success. Here are some examples of the questions Libertyville District 70 asked in their survey.
- 12. 1. Does the time length for distant learning seem appropriate? Their survey found that some parents wanted more rigor or time spent on remote learning, while others did not. This was useful information to the staff to understand how to support an area of growth.
- 13. 2. What are your concerns during this time? Dr. Youngman explained that many parents were concerned that students were regressing or falling behind in content. Using this information, the district wants to create assignments and activities for students to continue to obtain new content.
- 14. 3. What has been beneficial during this time? Try to get some positive information out of the surveys to see what is working. As Dr. Youngman said, “It’s important to make time to celebrate the good things that are happening while also making time to change things that can be improved.”
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- 16. Distance learning has been difficult for parents as they try to keep up a “teacher” role. A distance learning parent survey can be a great tool to check up on parents and understand how they are doing.
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