Survey on Modern Foreign Language Teachers in UK Higher Education, 2021

Marion Coderch's dataset provides an insight into the academic profile of modern foreign languages teaching staff in UK higher education. The data was collected via an anonymous 18-question questionnaire hosted on Jisc Online Surveys during the summer of 2021. The study describes the role of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in professional development and progression.

Use Cases

• Analyze the academic profile of language teachers based on survey demographics.
• Study the role of the scholarship of teaching and learning (SoTL) in professional progression based on questionnaire responses.
• Investigate professional development trends in UK higher education based on mixed quantitative and qualitative survey data.
• Examine the status of modern foreign language teaching as a profession based on the collected insights.

Strengths

• Data was collected via a structured 18-question questionnaire.
• The dataset contains mixed-method data, including quantitative multiple-choice and qualitative free-text comments.
• All answers were anonymized at the time of collection.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data is from a single survey in summer 2021; temporal and geographic scope is limited.

Provenance

Source

Marion Coderch via e-cienciaDatos Harvested Dataverse.

Collection Method

Mixed-method data collected through an anonymous online questionnaire.

Time Range

Summer 2021.

Freshness

Last updated 2024-05-05 05:31:21; freshness should be verified.

Geography

United Kingdom (UK higher education).