UPDATE: This School staff questionnaire can be downloaded as a word document here.<\/a> Feel free to adapt and share as you wish.<\/p>\n

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• School governors\/ leaders planning a staff questionnaire<\/li>\n
• Any seeking a (very) brief introduction to the options of designing any pencil and paper questionnaire.<\/li>\n
• Anyone looking for a LaTeX template for questionnaire design (this questionnaire is based on my slight adaptation of the paperandpencil.sty<\/a> by Miriam Dieter & Anja Zwingenberger)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

  First thing: the actual questionnaire I designed<\/strong><\/p>\n

  In my capacity as a school governor I designed a staff questionnaire<\/a> last summer. I've made this available for anyone to use or adapt as they see fit. (Some of these questions are based on ones OFSTED ask teachers).<\/p>\n

  A basic consideration of options<\/strong><\/p>\n

  There are many ways to do a staff questionnaire. Naturally online is fairly straightforward using third party software such as surveymonkey<\/a> (free basic service, then \u00a3), or if you are more technically minded using various polling software and plugins in your own website (e.g. for wordpress<\/a>). However in terms of online security paper and pencil questionnaires remain useful, and in a small(ish) school where everyone is in one place the benefits of setting up, administering and analysing an online questionnaire are probably not as great as for a larger organisation.<\/p>\n

  You may or may not be particularly worried about the presentation of your questionnaire. However, using your regular word-processing package (e.g. MSWord (\u00a3), LibreOffice<\/a> writer (free and open source) etc.) will usually turn out to be more hassle than it's worth. Every time you try to move a box to a different place it ends up moving a whole load of other text (you've probably have experienced this behaviour when trying to put a photograph into a Word document).<\/p>\n

  If you wish to stick with a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) a publishing tool such as MSPublisher (\u00a3) or Scribus<\/a> (free and open source) are likely to yield better results than word processing software. These will enable you to have more control over the page layout.<\/p>\n

  A bit more technical: using LaTeX<\/strong><\/p>\n

  The questionnaire I designed is built in LaTeX and I've made the source code available in github<\/a>. The key advantage of LaTeX (more about LaTeX here<\/a>) is that you can have complete control over the layout with a combination of standard commands and some stylesheets. The .tex code can then be exported to .pdf leading to a document which can be printed off.<\/p>\n

  Link summary<\/b><\/p>\n

  .pdf version<\/a> of the questionnaire we used at our school.\u00a0 There are online services which can covert .pdf to Word (.doc\/ .docx) though your mileage may vary.<\/p>\n

  Github<\/a> access to the source code.<\/p>\n

  Further help<\/b><\/p>\n

  I'm happy to provide a small amount of free help (subject to my availability) to UK schools wishing to use the questionnaire (e.g. add school name\/ logo, remove questions or make relatively minor amendments).<\/p>\n\n\n

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