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Instructor Training Post-Survey

2021-08-09

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Instructor Training Post Survey

*Please do not take this survey until after you have completed the training event.*

Consent to Participate in Research Introduction and Purpose My name is Erin Becker and I am the Associate Director of The Carpentries. Thank you for volunteering to take part in our research study, which is about understanding the effectiveness of our instructor training program.

Confidentiality In order to understand the impact of our instructor training program, we are collecting information about learners’ attitudes and skills related to our content before and after the workshops. Your responses will be recorded anonymously. If you respond via email, your IP address will be registered; however, your responses will remain anonymous.

Risks and Benefits There are no direct risks or benefits to you from filling out this survey, and no compensation. We hope to use these results to improve workshops for future learners.

Consent You are not required to take this survey to participate in our training. You may quit the survey at any time or skip any item other than those required to correctly sort your responses.

If you have any questions about the study, please contact Erin Becker, Associate Director of The Carpentries at ebecker@carpentries.org or eribecker@ucdavis.edu or Megan Welsh, Assistant Professor of Education at the University of California, Davis at megwelsh@ucdavis.edu.

If you have any questions about your rights or treatment as a research participant in this study or would like to provide input about this research, please contact the University of California at Davis’ IRB Board at (916) 703-9151, IRBAdmin@ucdmc.ucdavis.edu, or 2921 Stockton Blvd, Suite 1400, Room 1429, Sacramento, CA 95817.

Do you consent to taking this survey? *

Are you 18 years of age or above? *

What is the identifier for your workshop? It is in the “YYYY-MM-DD-sitename” format and is used in the URL for the workshop website or the Etherpad you used. Please copy and paste the workshop identifier into the text box below. *

(short text answer)

Please enter a unique identifier as follows: Number of siblings (as numeric) + First two letters of the city you were born in (lowercase) + First three letters of your current street (lowercase). Example: If you have 0 sibling, were born in Arlington, and live on Creekwater Street, your unique identifier would be 0arcre. This identifier will be confidential to you and will help us compare your answers with the pre-survey.

(short text answer)

When are you taking this survey?

Please give us some feedback about the overall training event.

The amount of information covered was reasonable for allotted time
Strongly Disagree Neutral Strongly Agree
1 2 3 4 5

The overall atmosphere was welcoming
Strongly Disagree Neutral Strongly Agree
1 2 3 4 5

I learned skills that I will be able to use in my teaching
Strongly Disagree Neutral Strongly Agree
1 2 3 4 5

The material presented matched the description of the training event
Strongly Disagree Neutral Strongly Agree
1 2 3 4 5

The training was worth my time
Strongly Disagree Neutral Strongly Agree
1 2 3 4 5

How did you perceive the pace of the training?

How was the balance of lecture to hands-on work?

How did you feel the Instructor Trainers performed?

Instructor Trainers gave clear answers to your questions
Never Sometimes All of the time
1 2 3 4 5

Instructor Trainers were considerate
Never Sometimes All of the time
1 2 3 4 5

Instructor Trainers were good communicators
Never Sometimes All of the time
1 2 3 4 5

Instructor Trainers were enthusiastic
Never Sometimes All of the time
1 2 3 4 5

Do you have specific comments about the Instructor Trainers?

(long text answer)

How much of the information presented at this training event was new to you?

How would you describe your ability to do the following tasks?

Teach using live coding
Not at all able Neutral Extremely able
1 2 3 4 5

Create a Carpentries workshop website
Not at all able Neutral Extremely able
1 2 3 4 5

Use a concept map for lesson planning
Not at all able Neutral Extremely able
1 2 3 4 5

Write a multiple choice question with diagnostic power
Not at all able Neutral Extremely able
1 2 3 4 5

Write effective learning objectives
Not at all able Neutral Extremely able
1 2 3 4 5

Describe your knowledge about the following topics.

Formative vs. summative assessment
Little or no knowledge Some knowledge Extensive knowledge
1 2 3 4 5

Giving effective feedback
Little or no knowledge Some knowledge Extensive knowledge
1 2 3 4 5

What makes someone a novice or expert
Little or no knowledge Some knowledge Extensive knowledge
1 2 3 4 5

How human memory works
Little or no knowledge Some knowledge Extensive knowledge
1 2 3 4 5

Cognitive load
Little or no knowledge Some knowledge Extensive knowledge
1 2 3 4 5

What The Carpentries are and what they do
Little or no knowledge Some knowledge Extensive knowledge
1 2 3 4 5

Strategies to motivate learners
Little or no knowledge Some knowledge Extensive knowledge
1 2 3 4 5

How has your motivation to learn more about these topics changed?

Formative vs. summative assessment
Less motivated No change More motivated
1 2 3 4 5

Giving effective feedback
Less motivated No change More motivated
1 2 3 4 5

What makes someone a novice or expert
Less motivated No change More motivated
1 2 3 4 5

How human memory works
Less motivated No change More motivated
1 2 3 4 5

Cognitive load
Less motivated No change More motivated
1 2 3 4 5

What the Carpentries are and what they do
Less motivated No change More motivated
1 2 3 4 5

Strategies to motivate learners
Less motivated No change More motivated
1 2 3 4 5

Do you have a clear understanding of what needs to be done to complete Instructor Training?

How likely is it that you would recommend this Instructor Training to a friend or colleague?
Not at all likely Extremely likely
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

Please provide additional comments about how the Instructor Training impacted you.

(long text answer)

Please provide additional comments about how the Instructor Training could be improved.

(long text answer)

Thank you screen

Thank you for completing this survey! Your input is used to improve our workshops.

If you believe someone breached The Carpentries Code of Conduct during this training, we ask that you report it using this form (see our reporting guidelines for more information).

If you would like to share feedback from this workshop with The Carpentries Core Team, please email us at team@carpentries.org.

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