87% of parents of
Leaving Cert Students think that the Department of Education should make a
decision before the end of January to decide if the Leaving Cert will be
cancelled and replaced with predicated grades.
iReach has surveyed Parents
of ‘School Going’ children in Ireland on their opinions of whether the Leaving
Cert exams should go ahead and when should a decision be made by the Department
of Education as well as wider Back to School issues. The nationwide survey ran
between 13th and 19th of January and received over 1,000
responses from adults on a nationally representative basis by Age, Gender and
Region. 600 of these are parents of Children in Primary or Secondary Schools.
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87%
of Parents of Leaving Cert students and 75% of all adults in Ireland think that
the Department of Education should make a decision before the end of January to
decide if the Leaving Cert will be cancelled and replaced with predicated grades.
·
75% of Leaving Cert Parents think their Children should be given the
option to choose between sitting their exams in June or receiving predicated
grades.
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56% Parents of Leaving Cert students say their
Children would prefer to sit their exams in June with 44% of Children
preferring predicated grades.
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82% agree that their Leaving Cert children’s anxiety and stress levels
have increased due to the uncertainty of the Leaving Cert exams.
·
73% Parents of Primary School goers say their children’s anxiety and stress
levels and have increased compared of 80% of parents of Secondary school
children seeing increased anxiety and stress levels of their children.
In relation to Back to School for all parents of Primary and Secondary
children@
·
Nearly
half (47%) of all adults feel that schools should only reopen when the R-rate
is under 1 nationwide. This compares of 42% of Parents of Primary School and
48% of Parents of Secondary School Children.
·
Only
25% of all Adults think schools should reopen on the 1st of
February, highest amongst Leaving Cert Parents (33%) and 28% of Parents in
Primary or Secondary School goers.
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About iReach Insights
iReach Insights
provides a range of research and market intelligence services in Ireland and
Europe. iReach has built a Consumer Decisions Research Panel of 40,000 members
in Ireland, delivering robust research insights. The survey questions were
included in the Nationally Representative iReach Consumer Decisions Omnibus run
between the 13th and the 19th of January 2021 and has a
2.5% Confidence Interval and 95% Confidence Level.
Questions asked of
participants:
1. Do you think the Department
of Education should make a decision before the end of January to decide if the
Leaving Cert will be cancelled and replaced with Predicted Grades?
2. Would they prefer to sit
their exams or receive predicated grades?
3. Do you think Leaving Cert
students should be given the option to choose between sitting their exams or
receiving predicated grades?
4. Do you agree that your
child’s anxiety and stress levels have increased due to the uncertainty of the
exams?
5. Do you have a
child/children in primary or secondary education that have been forced to
home-school?
6. Do you think that schools
should reopen as planned after the 31st of January or stay closed for longer?
iReach
Insights Limited – Temple Hall, Temple Road, Blackrock, CO. Dublin, IRELAND.
iReach Managing Director: Oisin Byrne
T: 086 850 6364 or email: oisin.byrne@ireachhq.com
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