Middle Years Improvement Questionnaires

Middle Years Improvement Questionnaires

Getting started

Online Reports

Fees to use online questionnaires

Certain Knowledge specialises in facilitating customised school improvement initiatives with individual schools or clusters of schools. These initiatives are underpinned by the following concepts:

School Improvement is essentially evidence based and data driven and is contextually grounded;
School Improvement requires effective leadership from the Principal and other school leaders;
School Improvement is focussed on improving leadership and teacher capacity to improve student learning;
School Improvement is fundamentally about improving the performance and development culture of a school.

Certain Knowledge provides a series of questionnaires that can provide an evidence base for middle years improvement initiatives, namely:

Certain Knowledge specialises in facilitating customised school improvement initiatives with individual schools or clusters of schools. These initiatives are underpinned by the following concepts:

Attitude to School Questionnaire

Thinking and Learning Questionnaire

Wellbeing and Engagement Questionnaire

Literacy and Learning Questionnaire

Each of these middle years improvement questionnaires is completed by three groups:

members of the school’s leadership team (usually 4-6 members)
all teachers at the school and
all students (or a sample of students) at particular year levels.

It is recommended that the middle years improvement questionnaires are used at the beginning of the year, to establish a benchmark, and then again at the end of the year to measure improvement in target areas.

The middle years questionnaires are ideal to:

inform the development of school level Action Plans to build leadership capacity within a school or across a cluster of schools;
inform school leaders on how to focus on leadership strategies which develop clarity of direction for the school and increase the professional capacity of teachers;
assist school leaders to develop professional capacity by improving feedback on teacher performance and meeting teacher development needs;
provide benchmark data measures that inform the evaluation of progress at individual schools;
provide an evidence base to share effective school, leadership and teacher practice across clusters of schools.

Responses on items in the questionnaires are grouped as scales or item groups for reporting purposes. Benchmark data are also provided.

The middle years school improvement questionnaires have proved critical to supporting student achievement in the middle years of schooling (Years 5 – 9).

Getting Started

To use the Certain Knowledge questionnaire service for middle years improvement initiatives at your school, please email a request detailing the names of the school(s) to be involved in the project and their total enrolments and a short description of the project. After receipt of your request, we will then provide details of the steps to facilitate your school (or schools) to complete the questionnaires online.

Online Reports

Access to the questionnaires is via an online system. The system is set up to produce "matched cohort" reports for staff where a questionnaire is completed more than once. For example, if College A staff complete the leadership questionnaires in March and then again in March of the following year, the system can produce reports comparing responses only where the staff member completed the questionnaire on both occasions. These reports give more accurate comparisons because staff changes do not bias the results. Reports are also provided for all staff that completed each questionnaire.

Certain Knowledge provides the principal or a project coordinator in each school, an online summary report in the following format:

and detailed reports of the mean and standard deviation for questionnaire items and scales, such as:

All reports can be viewed via the Browser, printed and or copied and saved in Microsoft Word/Excel.

Fees to use Online Questionnaire and Report Service

Certain Knowledge will negotiate a customised fee package for the use of the middle years improvement questionnaires depending on whether an individual or group of schools are to use the service and the size of the school(s). An annual fee is charged for unlimited use of each set of middle years improvement questionnaires in any one year.

Please contact us if you require any further information about the about the middle years questionnaires..