Re: [Discuss] Pre / Post course assessments

2016-05-15 Thread Tracy Teal
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,

Re: [Discuss] Pre / Post course assessments

2016-05-15 Thread Pat Schloss
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

Re: [Discuss] Pre / Post course assessments

2016-05-14 Thread Greg Wilson
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

[Discuss] Pre / Post course assessments

2016-05-14 Thread Pat Schloss
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