Parents Attitudes to Schooling
The Parents’ Attitudes to Schooling survey report discusses the results of a national telephone survey on parents’ attitudes to schooling conducted by DEST during January and February 2007. The survey was conducted to ascertain parents’ views on a range of issues including schooling choices, content that should be compulsory, school reports, bullying and manners, improvements that could be made to schools, traditional apprenticeships, core skills, and post-school priorities.
Abstract
The Parents’ Attitudes to Schooling survey was undertaken to enable the Australian Government to gain a broad understanding of parent attitudes to schooling and relevant school education issues.
The main topics investigated in the survey include:
- what involvement parents have with their child’s education and how they feel about communication with the school;
- the improvements that parents would like to see in their child’s school;
- the key drivers that influence parents’ decisions to choose one school over others;
- parents’ views on core skills;
- how well the school deals with issues such as bullying, drug use, manners and attendance;
- whether issues of consistency (e.g. school starting and leaving ages, national curriculum, national school qualifications, uniform tertiary entrance requirements) are important to parents of school-aged children;
- parents’ post-school expectations;
- parents’ views on apprenticeships in traditional trades;
- participation rates for VET in schools;
- the views of parents’ on school reports; and
- parents’ knowledge of the curriculum at their eldest child’s school
Where possible, the report also contrasts 2007 results with results derived from a 2003 national telephone survey on attitudes to schooling.
Author(s)
Department of Education, Science and Training
Publication Details
| Type : |
Reports |
| Published : |
5/2007 |
Topics Covered
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| Detailed :
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| Career choices |
| Curriculum issues |
| Higher education statistics |
| Language literacy and numeracy |
| National research priorities |
| Non-government schools |
| Parents and community |
| Values education (drugs, bullying, civics) |
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