Student Attitude Survey - Research Report - Nov. 1999

REPORT SUMMARY BACKGROUND

Objectives
There is widespread concern throughout the Eastern Caribbean that youth are becoming
increasingly disaffected and disengaged from school, and that schools and teachers do not have the
capacities to prevent or overcome these problems. The Student Attitudes Survey was conducted
to" better understand students' hopes, fears, aspirations and ambitions as well as their
attitudes towards school work and their future lives." Consulting those most directly
concerned by education reform -- students themselves -- was seen as an important contribution to
education reform process.