Hi Pat, We are hiring a Director of Assessment to improve our assessment strategies. Software and Data Carpentry do already conduct pre and post-workshop surveys for all of our workshops though. We'd be happy to share those templates with you or anyone who was interested.
One of our goals, especially once we have our Assessment Director on board, is to coordinate assessment across training activities. Best, -Tracy On Sun, May 15, 2016 at 6:17 AM, Pat Schloss <[email protected]> wrote: > That’s great news! This is something that I know I need to do, but have > been kicking down the road for a while. Probably time to stop letting > perfect be the enemy of the good and just do something and see what happens. > > Pat > > > On May 14, 2016, at 6:38 PM, Greg Wilson <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi Pat; thanks for mail. It's a timely inquiry - Data Carpentry is hiring > a full-time Deputy Director of Assessment ( > http://www.datacarpentry.org/blog/assessment-director-posting/), and > we're hoping s/he will be able to teach us all what we ought to be doing > about all of this. Do you have a particular timescale in mind? > > Cheers, > > Greg > > On 2016-05-14 11:14 AM, Pat Schloss wrote: > > Hey everyone, > > Something I’ve been thinking about for a while with regards to my on campus > teaching and other workshops I teach is developing a pre and post course > assessment to demonstrate that the students have learned something. I’ve > struggled to think of something meaningful since many people that take a > bioinformatics course and most likely SWC/DC courses have little prior > background. I like the idea of measuring the delta but because so many of the > learning goals/objectives are pretty technical I don’t know what to do at > time=0. Perhaps the initial assessment could be more conceptual (e.g. explain > DRY) or reactive (e.g. explain what this function does) and the final > assessment could be more performance based (e.g. make code DRY / write the > function from the pre-test). > > Has anyone out there developed an assessment tool that you use before and > after their own programming courses or SWC/DC workshops? I’d be curious to > hear what people have included and what others might think would be useful to > have on such an assessment. > > Thanks! > Pat Schloss > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing > [email protected]http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss > > > -- > Dr Greg Wilson > Director of Instructor Training > Software Carpentry Foundation > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss > > > > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.software-carpentry.org/listinfo/discuss >
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