[Discuss] Mentoring Round 2 begins October 25th

Hello Carpentry Community! Round two of the Carpentries Mentoring Program will run October 25th - January 10th. We listened to the feedback from our pilot mentoring program participants and have made some changes to the mentoring program: - Curriculum-specific mentoring for Git, Shell, Pyt

[Discuss] Survey language focus group

Hello everyone, You may be aware that Data Carpentry is piloting pre/post assessment instruments that include skills-based questions. We also ask learners to create a unique identifier so that we can compare pre/post assessment results. I am seeking individuals to participate in a focus group aro

[Discuss] Invitation to collaborate on Data Carpentry Assessment

Hello everyone, As Data Carpentry has launched new pre and post-workshop surveys, we are in the process of archiving the former survey and it's data. Paula and I are working on a report to archive this data. If you are interested in contributing to the analysis (in R), you are more than welcome.

[Discuss] Data Carpentry Launches new pre and post surveys

Hi everyone, Data Carpentry's new pre and post surveys have been added to our workshop template. These surveys include skills-based questions and the ability for learners to choose a unique identifier so that we can run paired analyses. Let me stress the importance of our pre and post-workshop

[Discuss] Pilot test Data Carpentry's pre/post surveys

Hello everyone, Data Carpentry has worked with several instructors, maintainers, and community members to improve our pre and post workshop surveys. We are ready to pilot these surveys with you, our instructors. Here are preview links for both the pre and post workshop surveys: Pre-survey

[Discuss] One-day syllabi using Carpentry material

Hi everyone, Does anyone have a one-day workshop syllabi based on Carpentry material? Myself and two other instructors are writing an abstract to do a one-day pre-con workshop at the Professional Development Conference for the National Society of Black Engineers. We'd like to cover the most useful

[Discuss] Carpentry Long-Term Assessment

Greetings, We are collecting data about how Carpentry (Software and Data) Workshops impact learner's work and career. If you've taken, or know someone who has taken, a Carpentry workshop before December 2016, please complete our assessment, and spread the word. Carpentry Long-Term Feedback Survey

[Discuss] Run a workshop this Spring

Did you know that 95% of Data Carpentry learners are first-timers? As a community we’ve impacted hundreds of learners around the globe, and 93% of our learners told us that their level of data management and analysis skills were higher because of our workshops! We’re doing very well as a community

[Discuss] Help us develop R/Python MCQ's for our assessment

Hello family, We had overwhelmingly productive feedback regarding our issue on which learning objectives to assess in our lessons. Because of you we were able to develop new and improved pre and post workshop surveys that we plan