Instructor Training Pre-Survey
2022-06-30
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Instructor Training Pre Survey
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Are you 18 years of age or above? *
Please enter the name of the event you attended. 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.
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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 post-survey.
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Please indicate your relevant fields or disciplines. Check all that apply.
- Agricultural or Environmental Sciences
- Biomedical or Health Sciences
- Chemistry
- Civil, Mechanical, Chemical, or Nuclear Engineering
- Computer Science or Electrical Engineering
- Earth Sciences
- Economics or Business
- Education
- Genetics, Genomics, or Bioinformatics
- High Performance Computing
- Humanities
- Library and Information Science
- Life Sciences
- Mathematics or Statistics
- Medicine
- Organismal Biology (Ecology, Botany, Zoology, Microbiology, etc.)
- Physical Sciences
- Planetary Sciences (Geology, Climatology, Oceanography, etc.)
- Psychology or Neuroscience
- Social Sciences
- Space Sciences
- Other (open text)
What is your current status? Check all that apply.
- Administrative Staff
- Analyst
- Commercial Software Developer
- Faculty
- Government Employee
- Graduate Student
- Industry Employee
- Librarian or Archivist
- Management
- Postdoctoral Researcher
- Research Staff (including Researcher Programmer)
- Retired or Not Employed
- Support Staff (including Technical Support)
- Undergraduate Student
- Other (open text)
How would you describe your ability to do the following tasks?
Teach using live coding
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Create a Carpentries workshop website
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Get feedback from learners about their workshop experience
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Prepare to teach a Carpentries workshop
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Collaborate with an instructional team (e.g, co-Instructors and helpers)
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Introduce a workshop
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Use feedback to adjust your teaching practices
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Describe your knowledge about the following topics.
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Giving effective feedback
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What makes someone a novice or expert
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How human memory works
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Cognitive load
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What The Carpentries are and what they do
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Strategies to motivate learners
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The Carpentries Core Values
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Why are you attending The Carpentries Instructor Training? Check all that apply.
- To learn more about The Carpentries
- To be able to teach official Carpentries workshops
- To learn how to teach computational skills
- To improve my general teaching skills
- Other (open text)
How did you find out about the Carpentries Instructor Training? Check all that apply.
- Received an email or saw a flyer about the workshop
- Read about the training in a newsletter or on a university website
- Saw the training listed on one of The Carpentries websites
- My advisor or supervisor told me about the training
- A friend or colleague told me about the training
- Saw the training advertised on social media (Twitter, Facebook, etc.)
- Heard about the training at a conference, meeting, or seminar
- Heard about the training from a funding organization or program officer
- Other (open text)
Where is your workshop located?
- Afghanistan
- Åland Islands
- Albania
- Algeria
- American Samoa
- Andorra
- Angola
- Anguilla
- Antarctica
- Antigua and Barbuda
- Argentina
- Armenia
- Aruba
- Australia
- Austria
- Azerbaijan
- Bahamas (the)
- Bahrain
- Bangladesh
- Barbados
- Belarus
- Belgium
- Belize
- Benin
- Bermuda
- Bhutan
- Bolivia (Plurinational State of)
- Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba
- Bosnia and Herzegovina
- Botswana
- Bouvet Island
- Brazil
- British Indian Ocean Territory (the)
- Brunei Darussalam
- Bulgaria
- Burkina Faso
- Burundi
- Cabo Verde
- Cambodia
- Cameroon
- Canada
- Cayman Islands (the)
- Central African Republic (the)
- Chad
- Chile
- China
- Christmas Island
- Cocos (Keeling) Islands (the)
- Colombia
- Comoros (the)
- Congo (the Democratic Republic of the)
- Congo (the)
- Cook Islands (the)
- Costa Rica
- Côte d’Ivoire
- Croatia
- Cuba
- Curaçao
- Cyprus
- Czechia
- Denmark
- Djibouti
- Dominica
- Dominican Republic (the)
- Ecuador
- Egypt
- El Salvador
- Equatorial Guinea
- Eritrea
- Estonia
- Eswatini
- Ethiopia
- Falkland Islands (the) [Malvinas]
- Faroe Islands (the)
- Fiji
- Finland
- France
- French Guiana
- French Polynesia
- French Southern Territories (the)
- Gabon
- Gambia (the)
- Georgia
- Germany
- Ghana
- Gibraltar
- Greece
- Greenland
- Grenada
- Guadeloupe
- Guam
- Guatemala
- Guernsey
- Guinea
- Guinea-Bissau
- Guyana
- Haiti
- Heard Island and McDonald Islands
- Holy See (the)
- Honduras
- Hong Kong
- Hungary
- Iceland
- India
- Indonesia
- Iran (Islamic Republic of)
- Iraq
- Ireland
- Isle of Man
- Israel
- Italy
- Jamaica
- Japan
- Jersey
- Jordan
- Kazakhstan
- Kenya
- Kiribati
- Korea (the Democratic People’s Republic of)
- Korea (the Republic of)
- Kuwait
- Kyrgyzstan
- Lao People’s Democratic Republic (the)
- Latvia
- Lebanon
- Lesotho
- Liberia
- Libya
- Liechtenstein
- Lithuania
- Luxembourg
- Macao
- Madagascar
- Malawi
- Malaysia
- Maldives
- Mali
- Malta
- Marshall Islands (the)
- Martinique
- Mauritania
- Mauritius
- Mayotte
- Mexico
- Micronesia (Federated States of)
- Moldova (the Republic of)
- Monaco
- Mongolia
- Montenegro
- Montserrat
- Morocco
- Mozambique
- Myanmar
- Namibia
- Nauru
- Nepal
- Netherlands (the)
- New Caledonia
- New Zealand
- Nicaragua
- Niger (the)
- Nigeria
- Niue
- Norfolk Island
- North Macedonia
- Northern Mariana Islands (the)
- Norway
- Oman
- Pakistan
- Palau
- Palestine, State of
- Panama
- Papua New Guinea
- Paraguay
- Peru
- Philippines (the)
- Pitcairn
- Poland
- Portugal
- Puerto Rico
- Qatar
- Réunion
- Romania
- Russian Federation (the)
- Rwanda
- Saint Barthélemy
- Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha
- Saint Kitts and Nevis
- Saint Lucia
- Saint Martin (French part)
- Saint Pierre and Miquelon
- Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
- Samoa
- San Marino
- Sao Tome and Principe
- Saudi Arabia
- Senegal
- Serbia
- Seychelles
- Sierra Leone
- Singapore
- Sint Maarten (Dutch part)
- Slovakia
- Slovenia
- Solomon Islands
- Somalia
- South Africa
- South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
- South Sudan
- Spain
- Sri Lanka
- Sudan (the)
- Suriname
- Svalbard and Jan Mayen
- Sweden
- Switzerland
- Syrian Arab Republic (the)
- Taiwan (Province of China)
- Tajikistan
- Tanzania, the United Republic of
- Thailand
- Timor-Leste
- Togo
- Tokelau
- Tonga
- Trinidad and Tobago
- Tunisia
- Turkey
- Turkmenistan
- Turks and Caicos Islands (the)
- Tuvalu
- Uganda
- Ukraine
- United Arab Emirates (the)
- United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (the)
- United States Minor Outlying Islands (the)
- United States of America (the)
- Uruguay
- Uzbekistan
- Vanuatu
- Venezuela (Bolivarian Republic of)
- Viet Nam
- Virgin Islands (British)
- Virgin Islands (U.S.)
- Wallis and Futuna
- Western Sahara*
- Yemen
- Zambia
- Zimbabwe
To which gender do you most identify?
- Female
- Gender variant/Non-conforming
- Male
- Prefer not to say
- Other (open text)
How would you describe yourself? Choose one or more of the following groups.
- American Indian or Alaska Native (Having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South America (including Central America), and who maintains a tribal affiliation or community attachment.)
- Asian (Having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent including, for example, Cambodia, China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, Indonesia, the Philippine Islands, Thailand, and Vietnam.)
- Black or African American (Having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa – includes Caribbean Islanders and others of African origin.)
- Hispanic or Latino(a) (A person of Spanish-speaking origin or ancestry and/or Latin American origin or ancestry – includes Portuguese and Brazilians.)
- Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (Having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands.)
- White (Having origins in any of the original peoples of Europe, the Middle East, or North Africa.)
- Prefer not to say
- Other (open text)
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