School staff workload study

 Final report to the AEU Vic Branch

The School Staff Workload Study was commissioned by the Victorian branch of the Australian Education Union (the Union) in March 2016. The study involved the design and delivery of an online survey by the Australian Council for Educational Research (ACER). The survey was a census of the Union membership and was open to the majority of members in Term 2, June 2016. The survey targeted three groups: teachers, school leaders (Principal class), and education support staff.

For reasons of commercial confidentiality, the total Union membership and the number of respondents by target group have been redacted from this report. In total, there were over 13,000 respondents. The final response rate for teachers was 34 per cent, for principals was 55 per cent and for education support staff was 41 per cent.

Respondent characteristics are representative of the Union membership in all areas considered: age, gender, geolocation, SES, school level (primary and secondary) and school size. A large majority of respondents were from primary or secondary schools (rather than combined or special schools) and the majority of the analysis therefore considers these two groups. Where only primary and secondary schools are reported, these figures do not include teachers in combined and special schools.
 

Read the full report here