Fees to use online questionnaires
Of all the factors influencing the quality of students’ learning, it is generally agreed that the most powerful and pervasive influence lying within the control of the school is the quality of the teaching experienced by students. Many strategies have been explored as ones that are likely to bring about enhancement of teaching practices. Just as targeted feedback to students is crucial to improved student learning, so targeted feedback to individual teachers, combined with effective professional learning based on that feedback, is a powerful strategy for enhancing teachers’ pedagogy.
Two sources of targeted teacher feedback are the students who experience the individual teacher’s strategies for teaching and learning, and the professional colleagues who have opportunities to observe the teacher in action in the classroom. Feedback of this sort means stepping right inside the individual classroom and understanding the interaction of Teacher A with students in class B for subject C.
The Feedback on Teaching and Learning Questionnaire (FTLQ) has been designed by Dr Jean Russell (profile) as an instrument that will collect feedback about students’ and teachers’ experience in the individual classroom. This questionnaire is based on the major constructs found in the research literature to be important to pedagogy and learning. It is a questionnaire that is to be completed by the students within a particular class and also by the teacher of that class. The results will illuminate two perspectives: the students’ experience of the teaching and learning in that class, as well as the teacher’s perception of the students’ experience.
To be effective, feedback needs to be acted upon. Results of the FTLQ provide the basis for the teacher to develop an individual professional learning plan that targets specific areas of pedagogy in need of strengthening. It is suggested that the teacher will be helped in this process by a small mentoring team of colleagues who are also engaged in the same process with their own classes. The professional learning strategies of the mentoring team could include a second form of feedback, this being the observation, discussion and evaluation of one another’s teaching, i.e. a professional adult perspective. Subsequent administrations of the FTLQ would then provide evidence of change and improvement in the teacher’s’ professional practice.
The FTLQ is a questionnaire that is completed by two categories of respondent:
Thus the purposes of the FTLQ are as follows:
The research literature was examined in order to determine the constructs and processes that contribute most to the development of this range of knowledge, skills, understanding, attributes and values. This literature included research areas concerning motivation and engagement, self-regulated learning, achievement goal theory, interest, thinking and learning, constructivism, authentic pedagogy, teacher professional learning, teacher-student relationships and classroom effects on learning, and school leadership influences on teaching and learning.
Two global dimensions of students’ classroom experience are seen to be critical in influencing their investment of energy and involvement in learning: the nature of the work they do and the culture of relationships within which that work takes place. This model was used as a basis for determining the four domains of the FTL Questionnaire. These domains separated out for the purposes of structuring the questionnaire, but in fact they are interactive. Each domain interacts with all others, together creating the total classroom experience of the student. The four domains of the FTLQ are:
The FTLQ questionnaires are available for primary and secondary classes as follows:
Secondary classes (Years 7-12):
The complete questionnaire Feedback on Teaching and Learning Questionnaire (Secondary Revised 2011) comprises 101 items covering the four domains
or is available in a single domain format:
The secondary FTLQ takes approximately 25 minutes to complete while the secondary domain FTLQs take approximately 10 minutes to complete. It is recommended that the FTLQ is used at the beginning of the year, to establish a benchmark, and then again (secondary schools can use the full FTLQ or targeted FTLQ-Domain questionnaires) at the end of the year to measure improvement in target areas.
Primary classes (Years 6 & 7):
Feedback on Teaching and Learning Questionnaire (Primary) comprises 69 items covering the four domains
The primary FTLQ is designed to only be used with grades 5 and 6 students and takes approximately 20 minutes to complete.
Responses on items in the questionnaires are grouped as scales for reporting purposes. Summary and detailed reports are provided for each FTLQ domain.
Click on the links for a full description of the FTLQ domains and scales and related support resources.
The FTLQ questionnaires are ideal for teachers to have detailed feedback on their pedagogy for particular classes.
For teachers to use the Feedback on Teaching and Learning Questionnaires at your school, please email a request detailing the names of the school(s) to be involved in the project, their total enrolments and a short description of the project (how many teachers, which year levels etc). After receipt of your request, we will then provide details of the steps to facilitate your school (or schools) to complete the questionnaires online.
Access to the questionnaires and reports is via an online system. Each teacher and student is issued a username/password to login and complete their questionnaire.
Certain Knowledge provides the teacher of each class a confidential online summary report for each FTLQ domain in the following format:
and reports of scales within the domains, for example:
and reports of the mean and standard deviation for questionnaire items and scales, for each FTLQ domain 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 Feedback on Teaching and Learning 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 number of teachers to use of the feedback questionnaires in any one year.
Please contact us if you require any further information about the Feedback on Teaching and Learning Questionnaires..
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