Are you an upper primary school teacher in the UK (ages 7-11)? Have you ever used the micro:bit in your teaching? If so, we’d love to hear from you! We’d be really grateful if you could complete our survey by the end of this term!
What questions are in this survey?
The survey asks you which pupils you teach and what you’ve been teaching in computing. It doesn’t matter if you haven’t used the micro:bit this academic year.
There are then some questions about ways in which you think children might respond to physical computing opportunities, for example, how confident you think they are, and whether they experiment with their projects. There are a set of questions on the way you choose to teach with the micro:bit or other physical computing devices, and finally, some questions about any gender differences you have noted.
How will I benefit?
The first 25 teachers who complete their teacher questionnaire will receive a £20 Waterstones voucher, and all teachers can choose to enter a prize draw to win a set of computing-related books for their school.
Our project will be running from 2024-2029 and we will be regularly sharing our results so you will be able to compare your own experience with other upper primary teachers. You’ll also be making a valuable contribution to a substantial study that we will be conducting that investigates creativity, confidence and agency in computing of primary-aged children, and later on in their early secondary years of education.
Who can complete the survey?
We’d love to hear from any upper primary teaching Y3-6 children (or P4-7 in Northern Ireland and Scotland) who have used the BBC micro:bit in their teaching. It doesn’t have to be in the last year.
If you’ve taken part in our EPICS Class Activity with your pupils you will have already seen this survey – so you don’t need to do it again.
Thank you for your participation in our research!