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cation and incented them to participate with a $250 Amazon gift card as a prize for one randomly selected winner and promised confidentiality for respondents. The survey was advertised on thejournal. com and in newsletters and e-mail promo- tions to our subscriber list, and recipients were asked to encourage colleagues to participate as well.
We received 490 completed surveys. Responses were manually culled that
FIGURE 5
were clearly false or inappropriate for the survey. (For example, several higher ed IT staffers responded to the poll; their answers were excluded, as were responses from faculty members and non-IT staff and administrators except those who held dual positions in technology.)
The final tally for qualified respondents was 338, of which 326 were from public institutions, the rest from private institutions.
Where noted in the figures accompa- nying this article, vetted responses from qualified public and private institutions were weighted by institution type to be representative of the nation as a whole based on data from the United States Department of Education.
We also asked for, but did not weigh against, geographic location and size of the institution’s student body.
Geographically, our respondents tracked
FIGURE 6
PROMOTIONS
Few people’s titles will be changing in 2018.
DO YOU ANTICIPATE RECEIVING A PROMOTION WITHIN THE NEXT
12 MONTHS?
Responses were weighted by institution type.
YES
NO
PUBLIC
8%
92%
PRIVATE
12%
88%
WEIGHTED AVERAGE
9%
91%
PROSPECTS FOR SALARY GROWTH
A large minority of respondents expect to receive a pay increase next year.
DO YOU ANTICIPATE RECEIVING A RAISE WITHIN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS?
Responses were weighted by institution type.
YES
NO
PUBLIC
49%
51%
PRIVATE
59%
41%
WEIGHTED AVERAGE
51%
49%
FIGURE 7
TURNOVER
Most IT workers in K–12 expect to stay put for the next 12 months.
DO YOU EXPECT TO LEAVE YOUR CURRENT EMPLOYER WITHIN THE NEXT 12 MONTHS?
YES
NO
PUBLIC
18%
82%
PRIVATE
12%
88%
WEIGHTED AVERAGE
Responses were weighted by institution type.
16%
84%
The outlook for K–12 ed tech is positive. More than two-thirds of respondents said they expect to see healthy or unbridled growth and opportunity in the future (fig. 8).
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