Questions with Comment Boxes
Below, I have included some sample answers.
6. If you chose University, what's your reason for wanting to go?
10. What's your most positive/negative school experience?
Analysis
This survey gave a valuable insight on the mindset of students towards their educational experience and further education.
40% of participants found their educational experience either positive or very positive compared to the 21% of participants who found their experience mostly negative/very negative. 74% of students have also stated that education is one of their top priorities and 80% of participants wish to continue with education after high school through either college or university. Moreover, the numbers are raised again as 89% of participants agree that university is beneficial to personal growth.
The next set of questions aim to determine whether the participants have a growth or fixed mindset. The answers to each questions prod to each mindset. In question 8, only 8% chose the answer that prods to a fixed mindset compared to 92% towards the growth mindset. In question 9, 66% of the participants chose one of the questions that revealed a growth mindset compared to 34% of participants who chose the answer that indicated a fixed mindset.
Overall, Scottish students do find education a priority and think it is important not only for their personal development but also opening doors in terms of career and expansion of knowledge. Moreover, this research indicated that a lot of the participants lean towards a growth mindset rather than a fixed one.
Below, I have included some sample answers.
6. If you chose University, what's your reason for wanting to go?
- More job/career opportunities
- Furthering education
- Getting a qualification
- Extra training
- Personal growth
- Further knowledge on a specific subject
- Don't know
10. What's your most positive/negative school experience?
- Supportive teachers and study space is available
- Getting good grades
- Recieving exam results
- Failing two courses
- Early. mornings
- Joining the Higher Philosophy class
- Duke of Edinburgh
- Failing all my exams
- Meeting new friends
- Common room
- Finishing exams in confidence
- Getting caught in assignments with complicated rulesets/deadlines
- Coming out as trans was positive
- My health ain't taken serious by the school is quite negative.
- The opportunities given to me
- Getting good grades in my top subject
- Being bullied
- I have ASD so it's very overwhelming to be in a classroom environment, if even one person is making noise it compromises my learning (i know it's nobody's fault). corridors between classes are very crowded and loud which causes me a lot of anxiety.
- Higher Maths throughout the year
- Passing Maths eventually
- It's very difficult at times with too much pressure being put on us to do better than everyone else
- Learning in a supportive environment
- Being with friends
- Getting a good grade
- High school was inevitably the worst 5 years. Bullying, failing counselling, teachers who didn't care.
- Leaving
- Whenever people would hang up against me
- Field trips and 'practical' work
- Workload and pressure
- Seeing my friend get removed from sixth form for her mental health problems
- Social experiences, meeting friends
- My higher grade
- First year was negative
- When I got an A in a subject I found extremely difficult at that time. (I worked super hard in it to get an A so I was extremely happy.)
- I was bullied in primary. I was involved in a misunderstanding that became a gigantic fight
- Being involved in personal growth experiences such as building team leading and working skills, communicating and organising myself with the teachers at my school has also helped improved my interpersonal skills and built my confidence
- Struggling to find a comfortable place to actually work due to factors such as; other school children, some teachers and even a lack of dedicated education space for quiet self-study.
Analysis
This survey gave a valuable insight on the mindset of students towards their educational experience and further education.
40% of participants found their educational experience either positive or very positive compared to the 21% of participants who found their experience mostly negative/very negative. 74% of students have also stated that education is one of their top priorities and 80% of participants wish to continue with education after high school through either college or university. Moreover, the numbers are raised again as 89% of participants agree that university is beneficial to personal growth.
The next set of questions aim to determine whether the participants have a growth or fixed mindset. The answers to each questions prod to each mindset. In question 8, only 8% chose the answer that prods to a fixed mindset compared to 92% towards the growth mindset. In question 9, 66% of the participants chose one of the questions that revealed a growth mindset compared to 34% of participants who chose the answer that indicated a fixed mindset.
Overall, Scottish students do find education a priority and think it is important not only for their personal development but also opening doors in terms of career and expansion of knowledge. Moreover, this research indicated that a lot of the participants lean towards a growth mindset rather than a fixed one.