Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

To collect data from schools about television equipment in schools, its use, organisational arrangements for its use, movement of pupils and equipment occurring in the course of use, the extent of software (in the form of programs on video cassette) held in schools, and about relevant aspects of the schools themselves, viz. roll, staffing and school capacity, with a view to finding the effect of a range of quantitative factors on use.

Main Topics:

Variables (i) About the school: roll (by year), staffing and staffing establishment, school capacity in terms of pupils and ease of access of departments to playback equipment; (ii) about general aspects of A/V organisation, including the main difficulties about TV programme use; (iii) about equipment itself, its age, quality of performance, usual location; (iv) about recorded material; (v) about details of VCR use and movement over some fortnight in the spring term 1980.

One-stage stratified or systematic random sample

roughly a 1 in 4 sample was stratified by region (and by division within the Strathclyde Region). Sample schools and a reserve list were drawn randomly and these lists were submitted to Directors of Education/ Education Officers when formal permission to send out the questionnaire was sought

Face-to-face interview

Postal survey

Compilation or synthesis of existing material