Research and analysis

Working lives of teachers and leaders – wave 1

The findings of the first wave of the working lives of teachers and leaders survey.

From:
Department for Education
Published
11 April 2023

Applies to England

Documents

Working lives of teachers and leaders - wave 1: core report

Ref: ISBN 978-1-83870-447-6, RR1321

PDF, 1.33 MB, 179 pages

Working lives of teachers and leaders - wave 1: technical report

Ref: ISBN 978-1-83870-448-3, RR1340

PDF, 724 KB, 45 pages

Details

The first wave of the inaugural working lives of teachers and leaders survey was carried out in spring 2022 with teachers and leaders in state schools in England. It was conducted by IFF Research and the Institute of Education (IoE) on behalf of the Department for Education (DfE).

The core report summarises the findings from wave 1 of the study, including teachers’ and leaders’ experiences of – and views on – pupil behaviour, pay and reward, flexible working, workload, wellbeing, professional development and career plans.

The technical report supports the research report by providing additional details about the survey methodology. It covers:

  • survey sampling

  • questionnaire development

  • mainstage fieldwork

  • encouraging panel engagement

  • data processing

  • survey weighting

  • logistic regression models

It includes recruitment materials as appendices.

Published 11 April 2023

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