MMG Education has developed a deep understanding of the unique characteristics of the education segment, including the identification of a number of factors for successful stakeholder research projects:
MMG Education achieves research success for its client schools through:
- A complete focus on the independent and non-state systemic school sectors
- A highly collaborative approach to questionnaire development and refinement
- Ability to provide longitudinal analysis and comparisons between 'like' cohorts across different years, essentially providing a proxy for 'value add'
- Access to more than 1,600 benchmarkable questions for comparison to 'like' schools
- Access to the largest library for Net Promoter Score® (NPS) information for independent schools, including interpretation of aligning results specific to this segment
- Achievement of high response levels, ensuring robust and representative data, for example: parents 50%+, staff 75%+ and students 85%+
- Alliance with the Association of Heads of Independent Schools of Australia (AHISA)
- Alliance with the Australian Catholic University’s Institute of Positive Psychology & Education, supporting continual development and access to best practice research instruments
- An excellent and proven track record with school leaders extending over 25 years
- An MMG support team that is highly experienced in working with schools and understands the independent education sector
- Easy-to-read, comprehensive reports that can be disseminated to key staff, identifying interventions and actions required for operational and strategic continual improvement
- Extensive depth and detail in MMG questions, giving schools the evidence required to take targeted action
- Flexibility for schools to add new questions of interest not previously covered
- Fully tailored questionnaires to meet each school’s unique culture and needs
- Integrity of research questions tested for validity with alpha scores in excess of 0.8
- Management team with extensive knowledge of the governance and management of schools
- MMG's embedded values, which drive our performance and reputation
- Post-report services including further data cuts, tailored dissemination pack for executives, and presentations to staff and school Councils.
- Relationship with the Australian Boarding Schools Association (ABSA)
- The largest benchmark database for independent schools