Second educational survey to seek opinions about teaching, services

Survey targets 159,243 students and 26,854 teachers

NT Bureau

Doha: The School Evaluation Department of the Ministry of Education and Higher Education (MoEHE) has started implementing phase two of the comprehensive educational survey, seeking opinions of students, teachers and parents in all public and private schools and kindergartens across Qatar for the academic year 2023-2024.

The survey targets all students in grades 6-12 in public and private schools, amounting to 159,243 male and female students. It seeks their opinion about aspects of school, such as overall satisfaction with the school, implementation of the behavioural control policy, feeling of security at school, and opinions about academic subjects among others.

It also targets all teachers in public and private schools and kindergartens, recording 26,854 teachers in public and private schools, and 1,502 kindergarten teachers. Questions for teachers include their professional experience, and number of weekly hours allocated to teaching. 

It also includes questions about number of hours of professional development and the extent of satisfaction with the quality of teaching.

It also assesses training and professional development programmes and activities, and the extent to which they are used for activities that contribute to strengthening national identity and educational values.

The first phase was launched on March 3 by surveying the opinions of parents — 164,804 guardians of school students and 19,182 guardians of children in kindergartens.

The evaluation aims to determine the extent of parents’ satisfaction with the level of educational services. It includes questions that cover multiple aspects, such as communication with the school, assignments and assessments, teachers’ competence, curricula, and the school’s role in promoting national identity and educational values.