Single question questionnaires

Do you enjoy getting unsolicited questionnaires?

What do you with them?

Do you often wonder what happens with responses or the impact of non-responses?

Are decisions made by organisations by default, through non-returns?

Do you send out questionnaires to parents?

Is your questionnaire a copy of a standard format, your own or Ofsted?

Do you get a high number of responses?

How have you sought to address any shortcomings?

Do you personalise any questionnaire to suit your audience?

Is the use of language accessible to the audience?

At what point does the asking and answering of questions become something of a chore, which results in the questionnaire being binned?

How about the one question questionnaire? Many schools still send a newsletter, most have an active, accessible website. Instead of sending out an A4 sheet of 20 questions once a year, why not ask one (or at most three related questions) on each newsletter/fortnight?

You could even alert parents to the question through a text service.

You would not be overloading your audience, might get a better response and your data analysis could be more focused, with the potential to respond within the next newsletter, demonstrating quickly that views have been considered.