We have just compiled the feedback from the ECV2022 survey.
A Google survey was sent to all registrants and 131 responded by 20 December 2022. Overall, 88.6% of respondents ranked the conference as 4-5/5 (1 = poor and 5 = excellent).
Respondents participated in all aspects of the conference: the online presentations, keynote speakers’ presentations, Children Draw Talking Global Online Gallery, yarning circles and downloaded the ECV2022 Conference Proceedings Book.
Respondents answered three open-ended questions:
“What did you like about ECV2022? What was good?”. There were 131 open-ended responses that were very positive. Many features of the conference were highlighted including that it was free, online, asynchronous, high quality content, multidisciplinary, multicultural, inclusion of children’s voices, opportunity for discussion (yarning circles).
“What areas could be improved? Please provide us feedback for future conferences”. While there were 96 responses, 24 (33%) of these indicated that “nothing” could be improved. Most of the responses related to the fact that it was a virtual/online conference, navigation, and more time for discussion.
“What learnings from ECV2022 can you apply in your practice?”.
- There were 97 responses that embraced a wide range of topics indicating the attendees application to research and practice. For example “I got many fresh perspectives and ideas from the presentations and keynote speakers which I would definitely use or reflect in my practice” (78).
- Many of the responses related to specific areas including “innovative ideas about how to be more inclusive of children voices” (81), “How to build relationships” (80), “Building Educator Capacity” (53), “lots of things about education, parenting, children's learning etc” (22)
- Some indicated they would use the presentations to inform their research “Ethical and methodological considerations for future research” (56), “Sociocultural theory of child development” (41), “Including children's voices in research” (31)
- Some indicated they would use the presentations in their teaching “A range - from effective presentation ideas as a lecturer to content to help with courseware development and overall practice” (57)
Demographics of the survey respondents
The main profession/disciplines were: academics/researchers, early childhood education, education/teaching, speech-language pathology, students, psychology, social work, nursing
The countries of the respondents were: Armenia (2), Australia (62), Bangladesh (1), Bolivia (1), Canada (4), Croatia (2), Cyprus (1), Denmark (1), Fiji (2), Ghana (10), Hungary (1), Iceland (5), Indonesia (5), Iran (2), Iraq* (1), Ireland (2), Latvia (4), Luxembourg (2), Netherlands (1), New Zealand (2), Portugal (1), Rwanda (1), Saudi Arabia (2), Spain (2), United Kingdom (4), United States of America (7), Vietnam (1)
