Covid 19 Schooling at home survey results. Australia Learning Design 2022 Classification sheet.

This project investigated parent perceptions of COVID19 Schooling from home based on a national survey of parents.

Survey questions are listed below:

• What is your usual employment?

• How many hours a week are you currently employed?

• What is your age?

• What is your gender?

• Country of residence

• State

• Postcode

• How many children are currently under your care?

• How many children are you currently schooling at home?

• What is your child’s age?

• What year of school is your child in?

• What is your child’s gender?

• Does your child have any special learning needs, and if so, what are they?

• What type of school does your child attend?

• In what area is your child’s school located?

• What sort of technology or device does your child most often use for schooling at home (e.g. iPad, Chromebook, ACER laptop, Samsung phone, none)?

• Which would best describe the access that your child has to a device or technology in order to undertake schooling at home?

• Approximately how many weeks in total have you schooled your child from home since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic?

• Approximately how many hours a week do you personally support your child to undertake schooling at home?

• Approximately how many hours a week does another adult or adults support your child to undertake schooling at home?

• Please rate your agreement with the following questions:

- Schooling at home has been stressful for me.

- Schooling at home has been difficult for my child.

• What has been most stressful and difficult for you and your child about homeschooling, and why?

• What has worked well/has been beneficial for you or your child during homeschooling, and why?

• How many days each week does your child undertake schooling at home?

• On each schooling at home day, approximately how many hours does your child spend schooling at home?

• Are you generally aware of how your child spends their time completing schooling at home?

• Approximately how many minutes each day (on average) would you estimate your child spends completing each of the following schooling-related activities?

- Paper based activities (e.g. printed worksheets)

- Offline tactile activities (e.g., exercise, science experiments)

- Web-conferencing with a teacher (e.g. via Zoom)

- Online learning games (e.g. Mathletics, Reading Eggs)

- Digital worksheets completed online (e.g. fill-in-the-blank)

- Reading online resources (e.g. links to websites)

- Watching videos (teacher created)

- Watching videos (general public domain)

- Digital creativity tasks (e.g. creating essays, videos, posters)

- Other online tasks (e.g. Google Classroom, Moodle chats)

- Other:

• If you could change anything about your child’s online and offline schooling at home activities, what would it be?

• Does your child learn more, the same or less when schooling from home compared to when learning at school?

• How much more or less do you estimate your child is learning during schooling at home compared to their normal learning when at school?

• Please rate your agreement with the following questions:

- My child is able to learn independently using technology

- I am satisfied with the homeschooling support being offered by my child’s school

• Compared to the first time during the pandemic that you had to do schooling at home, how would you rate schooling at home now?

• Please explain the reasons for your answer to the previous question.