Impact of data loggers on science teaching and learning - European ...

2 Overall resultsThe schoolsNine schools from six differentcountries started the Fourier pilotstudy: one from the United Kingdom(a special needs school), one fromItaly and Spain, and two fromFrance, Germany and Turkey.As seen in Table 2, while all the Italianteachers taking part in the pilot studycompleted the questionnaires, onlyfour Italian students completed theirrespective questionnaires. We havekept the quantitative <strong>data</strong> provided by these teachers but the four entries from their studentshave not been taken into account in the general analysis as they had no significance whencompared with the 25 plus entries from each <strong>of</strong> the other countries.Likewise, because <strong>of</strong> local organisational issues, no questionnaires were completed by theSpanish teachers and only one by a Spanish student.Therefore, while the teachers’ results take into account the participating schools in the UK,Germany, Turkey, France and Italy, the students’ results are only from the schools in thefirst four countries.Additionally, one <strong>of</strong> the Turkish schools did not supply the responses from students butprovided one unique answer to each question, the average <strong>of</strong> each teacher’s pupils’responses (in Table 2, school 5), so this <strong>data</strong> has not been used in the quantitative analysiseither. This was caused by a misunderstanding about the <strong>data</strong> to be collected. Future similarstudies should make sure all participants understand what is at stake as regards the surveyand that pupils are familiar with online surveys.18