Educating Deaf Children - Pre-course Survey

1.We at TEDI (Teacher Empowerment for Disability Inclusion) are evaluating the effectiveness of the Educating Deaf Children: Becoming an Empowered Teacher online course and would like to invite you to participate in this evaluation. The findings of this evaluation will help us to better understand whether educators are being equipped with the necessary skills to meet the educational needs of learners who are Deaf, which will ultimately help to ensure that these learners receive a better education.

If you agree to participate in this evaluation, you will be asked to complete a pre-course survey (before you start the online course) and post-course survey (after you finish the online course). The surveys will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. They will focus on your experiences of participating in the online course. In general the questions that will be asked of you are not of a personal nature. Participation in this evaluation is also voluntary. You are free to decide not to answer a question or to stop participating in the evaluation at any time. If you are uncomfortable about anything arising from the research you can contact the principal investigator, Judith McKenzie (see contact details below). You will not be compensated or rewarded for participating in this study. In order to do this study we need your informed consent, and therefore you need to be over 18 years of age to participate.

Importantly, we will not use your real name in this evaluation: the answers you give will be put together with all those who participate, and no one person will be identifiable. In addition, the information from these evaluations will be stored in Google Drive folder which only the research team has access to.

If you have any questions or concerns about the evaluation you can contact Associate Professor Judith McKenzie, the principal investigator in this research (+2721 406 6318 or judith.mckenzie@uct.ac.za). If you have any questions regarding your rights as a participant, you can also contact Professor Marc Blockman at the Human Research Ethics Committee in the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Cape Town (+2721 406 6338).

I have read the above and understand that:

I am 18 years or older.
My participation in this evaluation is voluntary. I can stop the evaluation at any time and I do not have to answer questions that I do not want to.
The information I provide in this evaluation will be kept strictly confidential.
I will not be compensated or rewarded for participating in this evaluation.
I can contact Judith McKenzie or the Human Research Ethics Committee if I have any concerns regarding the research study.
Participating in this evaluation will not affect my course grade or completion status.
I voluntarily consent to participate in the research study as described and know that I am free to withdraw this consent at any time, and that doing so will not cause me any penalty (By selecting "Yes" you will be taken to the survey questions):

Yes

No

4.Have you taken a course delivered mostly or fully online before, including Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs)

Yes

No

7.Please mark any issues you anticipate could be a problem for you accessing the course

Other (please specify)

9.What is your gender?

Male

Female

Prefer not to say

Other (please specify)

10.Do you have a disability?

Yes

No

11.If you responded yes to the previous question, please describe your disability.

12.What is the highest level of education you have completed?

Other (please specify)

Educating Deaf Children - Pre-course Survey

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