Pilot amends

Remove what subject do you teach.

Did you learn about how to make digital content inclusive and accessible at school, college or university?

What region are you from in the UK?

What type of school or setting are you from:

  • Mainstream school
  • Specialist provision
  • Private education 
  • Trainee teacher

Research survey invitation

I am Helen Wilson, a second year part-time PHD student at the University of Worcester. I am planning a piece of research titled:


Working with teachers to plan a school classroom intervention about inclusion in our digital society

As part of this research I’m conducting an initial online survey to help me prepare for the study.

Who is this survey for?

This survey aims to collect a minimum of 50 participant responses from teachers across the UK.

Participants in this study:

  • must be teachers from upper key stage 2 (Years 5 or 6), the survey will ask this at the beginning before revealing the questions
  • teachers can be from any type of school setting including both mainstream and specialist provision

What is the survey about?

The topic of digital accessibility awareness and how to be inclusive in our digital society may (or may not) be something that you are currently familiar with as a school teacher, and that is OK.

It doesn’t matter how much you know or don’t know, this survey intends to capture all levels of understanding. 

How will your input help?


There is currently no identified academic research or data that identifies what school teachers know about digital accessibility. By participating in the survey you will be providing some of this missing information.


Why is this important?


Understanding what teachers currently know (or don’t know) will be used to inform a teacher training component for a wider digital accessibility research project.


The wider research project aims to work directly with Upper Key Stage 2 teachers to plan and pilot the ENABLED for Digital Accessibility framework in the Upper Key Stage 2 classroom. 


More broadly this research aims to contribute to education that raises pupil awareness about inclusion in our digital society.


This invite is only asking you to participate in the survey, not the wider study.


What to expect from the survey


The survey:


  • has a total of 25 multiple-choice questions, 4 multiple selection questions and 3 open ended questions

  • is anonymous, and no personal details or IP addresses will be collected

  • will take approximately 15-20 minutes to complete


You will need to be over 18 to participate and…


<COMPLETE THE SURVEY BUTTON>


Further information about this research project


If you want to know more about the wider research study, please visit the ENABLED for Digital Accessibility web page or contact Wilh5_22@uni.worc.ac.uk.


To accompany this survey, there is a detailed <Participant information sheet (PDF)>.


<Ethics approval>


DONT FORGET TO REDUCE TEXT AT THE START OF THE FORM.


ENABLED STUFF:

It’s about inclusion education for our digital society….opening sentence.

Digital accessibility is not currently taught on the national curriculum, but the literature highlights that it should be to make young people more aware of others needs in society (refs) and to help fill the skills gap becoming more evident in the workplace and industry (refs).

However, teachers currently have little or no resources or guidance to be able to teach the subject (ref) and initial investigations have highlighted that this is especially true in the school context.  

Additionally, it has also been identified that teachers also lack knowledge in the topic, as they too were not taught the subject through schooling (ref) and do not feel confident or prepared to teach it themselves (refs).

However, much of the research relating to teacher knowledge for digital accessibility awareness education is conducted within universities. Currently there is no identified research on the topic of teachers digital accessibility awareness in the primary school sector, nor the teaching of the topic to pupils at Key Stage 2.

This baseline questionnaire will help to inform a wider research project that aims to work with upper Key Stage 2 teachers to develop and pilot teaching materials for this topic.

There is no data to specifically support this 

Why key stage 2?


Research plan

Following on from this initial questionnaire this research aims to explore the development of this type of material by working directly with teachers to both plan and pilot 


Computing and PSHE curriculum.

Rationale:

<ENABLED for digital accessibility>

In the context of this research study the definition and reference to digital accessibility awareness relates to the ENABLED for Digital Accessibility framework.

The ENABLED framework relates to the components needed to teach digital accessibility awareness. These components have been identified through a review of the academic literature related to the teaching of digital accessibility awareness.

ENABLED stands for:

Text…

The topics of digital accessibility awareness:

TABLE OF ABLED TOPICS




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