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6 Results: online surveys for students and
teachers
6.1 Introduction
Chapter 6 discusses the results of the online surveys for teachers and students. Firstly,
we discuss what the students believe that they learn from tvmbo; secondly, we report
back on the teachers’ opinions. Finally, we draw some conclusions about the online
survey results and make some recommendations for practice.
We used the information which teachers, coordinators and students discussed during
the interviews to create the online surveys. In this way, we were able to collect a larger
and more reliable sample of responses to the questions we had posed in the interviews.
The online surveys for teachers and coordinators were in English and for the students
in Dutch.
6.2 Respondents
Ten schools in total responded to the online surveys, and a total of nineteen teachers
from nine schools and 66 students from five schools answered: see Table 6.1: Number
of teachers and students who completed the online survey. At four of the schools both
teachers and students responded; at five schools, only teachers responded and at one
school only one student responded. Therefore, we cannot directly relate teacher outcomes
to student outcomes, as their experiences are based in different schools.
During the analysis of the results, we had to take into account that the responses from
schools do not allow for comparison between teachers and students at particular
schools. We have, therefore, made an analysis across the schools and across students
and teachers.
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