Get your opinion heard, by completing the questionnaire. Hi, I am Tamara Bell Boyle, Ed.D.. I am researching educator's preparedness. How prepared were you prior to COVID-19 pandemic quarantine (i.e., March of 2020 until June 2020, the end of the United States (US) academic year of 2019-2020)? The questionnaire is in chronological order. The questionnaire starts with some questions prior (i.e., the academic year of 2018-2019) to COVID-19 pandemic quarantine (i.e., March of 2020) to allow the research to have a baseline. The questionnaire continues in a chronological order and ends with your thoughts/expectations about this academic year (2021-2022).

******* Please note if you are not from the U.S. your opinion still counts!!! There is an optional spot to give your area, please just note more specifically where you are from. If you just state Birmingham the researcher will assume Birmingham, Alabama; therefore, please be more specific and type for example Birmingham, England. Thank you. *******

Your responses will be confidential and the survey should take approximately 30 minutes.

Link to questionnaire https://forms.gle/EpAgCgrafy4nCj488

A little background to the research:
According to "Coronavirus 'Confusion': Teachers Had Little Training for How to Do Online Classes", written on April 17, 2020, “Many teachers received a couple of days of training before being asked to overhaul nearly every facet of their job. The lucky ones had a couple weeks”. Was this true for you? In addition, in "The CHLOE 4: Navigating the Mainstream, The Changing Landscape of Online Education", which was published March 24, 2020 provided the following comment: "Mounting successful online courses requires time, effort, and expertise that are likely in short supply under emergency conditions. The immediate goal should be to facilitate communication between faculty and students on the remaining tasks and assignments necessary to complete course requirements, and to help sustain campus communities in these difficult times". However, did your educational institutions do more? For example, in "How K–12 Schools Map Paths to Effective Hybrid Learning", published January 05, 2021, discussed how the Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum at Leander Independent School District (Leander ISD), in Texas, explained “We can create documents, resources and exemplary lessons, but unless our teachers understand how virtual teaching is different from teaching in person, it’s really going to be a barrier for them” and understanding the possible barrier, for the 2020-2021 academic year, Leander ISD created a summer on-line learning experience for their teachers. Did your educational institution do something similar over the 2020 summer? What about the summer of 2021?

Prior research includes, but not limited to, "Factors Relating to Non-completion of Doctoral Degree in Education", which was presented at Mary Immaculate College International Conference, on May 25, 2018, in Limerick, Ireland. YouTube link is: https://youtu.be/fqUf6HHAPk8       From that research I wrote a paper "Another Option for Doctoral-non-completer-students Who Wish to Complete their Ed.D." and presented at the Canada International Conference on Education (CICE-2021) in collaboration with World Congress on Education (WCE-2021), on June 24, 2021, at the University of Toronto Mississauga, Canada (Synchronous-online setting via Zoom) YouTube link is: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=QoSWjNwTHF8&t     In addition, from this research I wrote "Gwynedd Mercy University’s ABD Completion Program for Doctoral-non-completer-students Who Wish to Complete their Ed.D.", which was published in Literacy Information and Computer Education Journal (LICEJ), Volume 12, Issue 1, 2021 from "Another Option for Doctoral-non-completer-students Who Wish to Complete their Ed.D. The link https://infonomics-society.org/licej/published-papers/volume-12-2021/


If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact me at tamarabellboyle@gmail.com.

Lastly, I would really appreciate if you could please like and share my questionnaire, even if you are not an educator. Thank you in advance.