Results from the ‘Teachers’ Awareness and Perceptions of Ofsted’ survey released
A piece of YouGov research commissioned by Ofsted, “Teachers’ awareness and perceptions of Ofsted” has just been released.
The survey, which was conducted between the 14th and 26th March 2018, had 1,002 respondents with 360 teachers working in a primary school, and 642 teachers from a secondary school.
Some of the findings concluded that:
- Overall, teachers are more interested in engaging with Ofsted through third party events than through webinars or Ofsted-run conferences.
- Six out of 10 (62%) teachers whose school has been inspected by Ofsted feel the final judgement reached by the inspection team was a fair and accurate assessment.
- Two thirds (66%) of teachers have heard of off-rolling and a fifth (21%) have seen it happen.
- Seven out of 10 teachers feel they had no or little opportunity to feed their views and contribute to the whole experience of their school being inspected.
- Six out of 10 teachers would be confident in challenging a senior leader in a staff meeting or one-to-one about information they knew to be untrue.
- 85% of teachers agree there should be a cut-off point on schools exempt from inspection due to previous outstanding rating.
- Overall, over half of teachers believe Ofsted inspecting their school will mean a huge amount of unnecessary extra work.
- Teachers are more likely to agree with statements that imply Ofsted inspections are burdensome, overly reliant on data and open to the subjectivity of the inspection team.
You can read the full report and findings here.