IDEAL Future Work Package 2 Report

19 Section 4: Demographic data of respondents In total 164 participants volunteered to be interviewed. Of these 21% were educational leaders, 54% in-service teachers and 23% pre-service teachers (see figure 4). In some countries, due to the low response rate of pre-service teachers it was decided to interview teacher educators in the area of initial teacher education to try to get a representative view of this demographic. Teacher educators, provide initial teacher education to pre-service teachers in addition to on campus classes they would observe their experiences in the classroom with regard to teaching and learning. The teacher educators had expertise in digital education, they were dispersed across different levels of education. Figure 4: An overview of the role of the interviewees In addition there was representation from primary and post primary ; 58% primary and 42% from post primary. There was only one interviewee from the pre-school sector despite invitations being circulated to this sector. In the survey the majority of the respondents were from Ireland and Latvia with 18% from French speaking countries and 15% from Spain (see figure 5). In addition educational leaders were the demographic most widely represented (28%), followed by teacher educators (26), Inservice teachers (23%), pre service teachers(10%) and others (13%). Figure 5: Respondents by Country There seemed to be a misunderstanding with regard to teacher educators as when educators were asked about what sector they worked in, second level was the represented by 43% of participants, primary 24%, early years 14% and other was 10% (see figure 6) 0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35% Preservice Inservice Leader Teacher educator Post Primary Primary 15% 6% 39% 27% 12% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% Spain France Ireland Latvia Martinique Demographic of respondents (country)