We are just starting to collect this info, but I think it will be the spring/summer before we have a good idea of what numbers are.
Some interesting things now with small n (~350 responses) 93% of respondents were taking a SWC workshop for the first time. Of the remaining 7%, >90% wanted to refresh or cover new skills, and very small number were doing it as part of becoming an instructor. 3/4 of respondents say they plan to use the skills learned immediately-to within the next 30 days. Hopefully long term surveys will get us details on that. Again, we still need to collect much much more data before we really know if these are real trends. But everything (short of comments with identifying data or names) will be public in one form or another. - Jason Williams -----Original Message----- From: Discuss [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laurent Gatto Sent: Tuesday, January 05, 2016 12:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [Discuss] How well do we do? Dear all, I often wonder how many students that take introductory courses (SC/DC and others) really carry on and use the new programming/data analysis skills they have acquired. I know that others have too, and that this question has come up several times during discussions in the past, possibly on this list (apologies if I have missed anything obvious). I think SC has/is collected/ing some data in that direction: pre- and post-bootcamp questionnaires, how many students/helpers move to become helpers/instructors, ... Have these data been looked at and published? Can anybody point me to relevant studies? Thank you very much in advance. Best wishes, Laurent _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
