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Data Collection and Analysis
SurveyMonkey™ was used as a platform to create five comparable surveys. The
survey questions sought to collect data from participants related to their:
- Demographic details
- Evaluation of the new developmental assessment rubric, self-assessment and
goal-setting processes using a five-point Likert scale - Perceptions about the use of the developmental assessment rubric, self-
assessment and goal-setting processes using open-ended questions - Perceptions of the most significant changes that occurred as a result of the
innovation
Section 4 of the survey was restricted to teacher educators, school coordinators
and supervising teachers and was to be completed if these participants had experi-
ence with the university’s professional experience supervision prior to the introduc-
tion of the rubric and new process. The surveys were distributed via a link identified
in an email. Participants were encouraged to complete the survey within 1 month.
When the surveys were closed, the data was cleaned to remove incomplete and/or
duplicate entries. This resulted in a small number of surveys being removed from
the dataset. In the reporting of the findings, qualitative statements made in anony-
mous surveys and focus groups were included. No identifiers were given in order to
preserve the anonymity of participants.
Elaboration of the survey responses was sought through conversations in two
focus groups of 12 teacher educators. Teacher educators were chosen for the focus
groups as their perspective of the process as a whole was of particular interest in this
study. These participants had long-term prior roles as classroom teachers and school
leaders and were experienced teacher educators. Some were also employed as
casual academic tutors within the teacher education program.
Table 9.2 identifies the five participant groups and the survey completion statis-
tics. A limitation of the study was the small percentage of preservice teachers’
responses, especially from those in the fourth year.
Table 9.2 Survey participants and number of completed surveys
Target group
Total number of
target group
No. of completed
surveys
Percentage of surveys
completed
Fourth-year teacher
educators
40 15 37.5%
Fourth-year school
coordinators
105 23 21.9%
Fourth-year supervising
teachers
206 89 43.2%
Fourth-year preservice
teachers
206 13 6.3%
Third-year preservice
teachers
105 20 19.0%
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