Questionnaire to all headteachers. The original plan had been for the school-level interviews to inform the content of the questionnaire to all secondary schools but, because of timeline pressures, this plan was revised. The questionnaire was developed based on the data from all sources collected by end of November. 2014, and school-level interviews continued during December. The questionnaire was sent to all 35 secondary schools in Warwickshire on 21 November 2014 via an e-mail to the headteacher (or principal) containing a link to a secure site where it could be completed electronically and returned directly to the University of Warwick. The e-mail also included an Information Sheet explaining about the research. After one week, a reminder was sent to all who had not responded. This was repeated after another week. Completed questionnaires were returned by 19 schools (one school returned two – one from the headteacher and one from the SENCo). This is a response rate of 54%. Of those who completed the questionnaire: most were male (12) with 8 being female most were Headteachers and Principals (12), with other being Assistant headteachers (4), a pastoral coordinator (1) and a SENCO (1). Two respondents did not give their role details. most had over 10 years’ experience as a senior leader: o 16-25 year 7 o 11-15 years 6 o 6-10 years 3 o 3-5 years 4 The response rate was skewed by area, being much higher from East and Central than from South or North: 5 of 6 schools in East ABP 6 of 7 in Xxxxxxx 0 xx 00 xx Xxxxx 0 of 13 in North. The response from the North ABP schools was particularly low. Of the 19 responding schools, 16 had not been involved in the school-level interviews. This means that, taking the school-level interviews and the school questionnaire together, the research includes the views of senior leaders from 23 of Warwickshire’s 35 secondary schools. The format was predominantly closed questions in the form of statements and a 4- point rating scale from ‘strongly disagree’ to ‘strongly agree’. For one topic, on whether the statements matched the school’s current approach to managing behaviour, the answer options were simply ‘yes or ‘no’. Each main topic section included an open question where respondents could write what they wanted to about that broad topic. The topic commented on most frequently was school’s view about their ABP – this elicited 13 open responses. The main topic areas were: views about ABP to which the school belonged views about the overall ABP ...
