Relational Trust Survey

• 1. Relational Trust in Colleagues Personal Learning Networksvs. Schools

2. About the survey

• Based onOmnibus Trust Scaledeveloped by Hoy & Tschannen-Moran

• Link to survey distributed via Twitter

• 17 responses as of January 9, 2009

• Items address aspects of relational trust in PLNs vs. traditional school settings

3. Findings

• Trust in PLNs significantly higher than in school settings

• Average scores (all items)

• • • PLN: 4.82

• • • School: 3.41

• Standardized scores (500 mean, 100 SD)

• • • PLN: 581

• • • School: 263

4. Results by item 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. Respondent comments 23. CHOICE

• The trust relationships in plns seem stronger to me because they are self selected. I can opt in or opt out of the relationship---something I can't do in school.

24. CHOICE

• You *choose* those that you invite into your PLN - and I assume you have chosen wisely. Those who are *assigned* to work in your same facility are not there by your choice. This parallels the difference between your circle of friends and your family, does it not?

25. EQUALITY

• In a pln, everyone is equal and there is no leader. That equality increases the trust between pln colleagues---and the inherent lack of equality in school based relationships inhibits the development of trust.

26. OPENNESS

• The major difference I have found is related to the openness of sharing, exploring, learning/relearning, and willingness to think out loud through blogs, tweets, podcasts and webcasts, sometimes at great risk professionally through my PLNs.

27. DIVERSITY

• My PLN encompasses more diverse people/jobs/outlooks than contacts in my school district.

28. LEARNING

• It is refreshing and energizing to be an active contributor in many professional social networks, and I learn something new every day!

29. LEARNING

• I couldn't say the same about my experience in my own school/university. Over the years attitudes have become very status quo and a reluctance by educators to consider themselves life-long learners beyond their "work hours" has been quite common.

30. For more information

• For more information, to access raw survey data, or to receive a copy of the survey, contact Scott Schwister:

• [sschwister at gmail dot com] [twitter.com/sschwister]