Thank you very much! Looking forward to more data in the future. Best wishes,
Laurent On 8 January 2016 02:24, Williams, Jason wrote: > 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 -- Laurent Gatto | @lgatt0 http://cpu.sysbiol.cam.ac.uk/ http://lgatto.github.io/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.software-carpentry.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss_lists.software-carpentry.org
