Ireland's Online Resource for Parents & Teachers
Parent School Feedback and School Profiling Initiatives on Schooldays.ie
Background
When we set up Schooldays.ie back in 2006, one of our objectives was to try and provide parents with a range of information on individual primary and secondary schools around Ireland. Parents can view school contact details, student numbers, links to inspector reports, college progression data etc. We also provide a facility where parents can post or contact each other. However, over time we have noticed that while parents are constantly posting on our site looking for feeback on individual schools, the level of respondents is low as parents are concerned that their responses will identify them. We have conducted some research amongst parents, including a survey on information they would like about secondary schools, and in response Schooldays.ie is implementing two new initiatives to help provide parents with the information they are looking for. These are the ‘Parent Feedback’ Initiative and the ‘Secondary School Profiling’ initiative.
The 'Parent School Feedback' Initiative
The Parent School Feedback initiative allows parents to provide feedback on aspects of their child’s school at primary or secondary level. By sharing your views, you will be assisting other parents and also providing useful insights for the schools. The survey is similar to the UK Ofsted survey but includes additional questions related to the Irish education system at secondary level. Participants in the survey are not identified in the results displayed.
- Results will be displayed as a percentage of overall respondents and will not be attributed to individuals.
- A minimum of three survey responses must be received for any individual school before any response statistics will be displayed for the school on the site.
- Newly completed responses will be reviewed before being included in statistics displayed.
- Where ‘optional comments’ have been provided by respondents, they may be displayed at the discretion of the site but will not be attributed to individual respondents.
To complete the survey, you must register on the site which requires that you provide an email address and password. This is to help prevent misuse of the site and individual respondents will not be identified in any way when displaying survey response statistics. Details of participants email addresses will not be provided to any third party.
Note that once you register on the site you will also be able to participate in our online Discussion Forums, surveys, comment on news stories and receive updates on specific schools. Care should therefore be taken when selecting a 'User Name' on registration as usernames are displayed beside posts/comments and you may not wish to be identifiable if you decide at some stage to participate in discussion forums or join a school network. For this reason, when registering to complete the survey, it may be more appropriate to select a user name such as 'Butterfly123' or 'Mumof7' etc rather than using your own name.
If you are already registered on our site, to complete the questionnaire, login and go to your schools’ profile page on our site and click ?? to commence the questionnaire.
Once logged in, to find your school on our site click either on 'Find a primary school' or 'Find a secondary school' and follow the different links. If you will be regularly visiting your school's profile page on our site to view updates, etc, it is a good idea to join the parent network on our site for your school. This is useful in helping you to navigate quickly to your child's school profile page on our site - each time you visit our site, you can simply click on the 'my streams' link which appears on the top of every page when logged in - this provides you with the immediate links to the schools you have associated yourself with. It also means that you can receive notifications when there are updates to your school(s)- find out more
If you are not yet registered on our site, visit our registration page.
