CensusAtSchool’s official data collection period ends June 10
A quick reminder that there’s two more school days left of the official data collection period for CensusAtSchool – we’ve had over 21,300 responses to date!
After June 10, the survey will remain open for use during the rest of the year with your class, but we won’t be pushing the data collection side of things as much and will be focussing on getting the data ready for use.
Many thanks for your participation to date!
A quick reminder that CensusAtSchool’s official data collection period ends June 10.
Please help us get as many students taking part this year before the end of next week.
Please let us know if you have any questions.
Make sure your students take part!
Just a wee reminder that the end of CensusAtSchool is approaching and we’d LOVE, love, love for your students to take part if they haven’t already!
Can you get them to take part before the end of June 10?
Get your students to take part by visiting: censusatschool.org.nz
(Make sure you register first – you’ll be automatically emailed a code for your class to use.)
FAQ
When can my students take part?
Any time during school hours from May 2 – June 10
What should I do to prepare beforehand?
Read through the Making Measures document
Help! I can’t find my registration code, what do I do?
Simply re-register
Have another question?
Email: censusatschoolnz@gmail.com
Thanks so much to everyone who has taken part in CensusAtSchool so far…
We’re almost at 10,000 responses!
If you haven’t taken part yet, there’s still time. Please help us get the number of students taking part to be as big as possible.
We’d love your feedback if you’ve taken part so far – we’ll be doing a proper survey later in the year but if you have any little stories or feedback you can send in, I’d love to share it with everyone. Could you reply to this email with those?
Have a question? Email: censusatschoolnz@gmail.com
Facebook is Kiwi teens’ favourite social networking tool by a big margin, according to early results of the national online survey CensusAtSchool.
A total of 84% of the first 1800 teenagers surveyed said they have a Facebook page, compared to 33% in the last CensusAtSchool, in 2009.
The early results of the biannual educational project, which runs from May 2 – June 10, also show how fast once-popular social networking sites can crash from favour. Just 27% of the 13 to 18-year-old students surveyed have a Bebo page (down from 63% in 2009) and 7% a MySpace page (down from 17% in 2009).
“The numbers show how quickly social networking sites can go from hero to zero among teenagers,” says CensusAtSchool co-director Rachel Cunliffe, a University of Auckland-trained statistician and owner of several internet enterprises. “Young people are early adopters and they’re also fickle – they’ll go where their friends are going. And, of course, that means that although Facebook has the top spot among New Zealand teenagers at the moment, there’s no certainty that it will stay there.”
Cunliffe was surprised to see that hype about the rapid spread of the Twitter short-messaging system isn’t matched by usage – just 20% of the teenagers had a Twitter account.
Supervised by more than 700 teachers, thousands of students aged between 7 and 18 (Year 5 to Year 13) are answering 31 online questions about themselves, from their arm-span measurement to how they travel to school, and even how many hours’ sleep they had the night before.
This year’s CensusAtSchool also asks whether students think the All Blacks will make the Rugby World Cup final – and if so, against which team. The 15-minute survey is available in English and Māori.
CensusAtSchool is hosted by the Department of Statistics at the University of Auckland in association with Statistics New Zealand and the Ministry of Education. This is the fifth time New Zealand has held CensusAtSchool, which is also run in Australia, Canada, Ireland, Japan, South Africa, the United Kingdom and the United States.
“CensusAtSchool is about showing pupils the value of statistics in everyday life,” says Cunliffe. “Students and teachers will get data back that they will analyse together in the classroom, and that will provide even more learning opportunities.
“Students will also end with a unique view of themselves – and we’ll all have an insight into New Zealand life for young people that we couldn’t get in any other way.”
For more information on schools participating and any other inquiries, please contact Rachel Cunliffe (CensusAtSchool co-director) on 027 3833 746 or visit http://www.censusatschool.org.nz
Unfortunately we were notified at the very last minute that the CensusAtSchool story was pulled from 3 News last night due to the late breaking Osama bin Laden news yesterday which took up a lot of the news hour.
We hope that the story will screen on 3 News tonight!
Welcome back… we’re SO excited that CensusAtSchool launches today!!!
Please get your students to take part by visiting: censusatschool.org.nz
(Make sure you register first – you’ll be automatically emailed a code for your class to use.)
FAQ
When can my students take part?
Any time during school hours from May 2 – June 10
What should I do to prepare beforehand?
Read through the Making Measures document
Help! I can’t find my registration code, what do I do?
Simply re-register
Have another question?
Email: censusatschoolnz@gmail.com
For urgent inquiries, phone Rachel Cunliffe: 027 3833 746
We’ll get back to you quickly!
Just a quick note to let you know a story on CensusAtSchool is being filmed right now for 3 News tonight!
We’ll let you know the link when it’s up online too, but thought you might like to tune in and tell your students!
The Press is running a story today on CensusAtSchool.
