Thanks, Tracy - those are surveys though, not assessments - right? Pat
> On May 15, 2016, at 09:21, Tracy Teal <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 list >>>> [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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