What evidence do we have for pupils' honesty?
- We have worked hard on the design of the questions and for many of them we can compare the answers we get with those from other studies, and typically they match very well.
- We can compare the pupils' answers in one part of the questionnaire with answers elsewhere, and again the match is excellent.
- We have also done many post-questionnaire interviews with pupils, which we say are to check they understood the questions and that they could find the answers they wanted, but we also use to try and detect any deliberate or accidental misrepresentations. We rarely suspect any dishonesty.
