Open Access7: Evaluating Teaching Workshops: Beyond the Satisfaction Survey
Author(s) -
Way David G.,
Carlson Virleen M.,
Piliero Susan C.
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
to improve the academy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2334-4822
DOI - 10.1002/j.2334-4822.2002.tb00576.x
Subject(s) - medical education , institution , psychology , survey research , work (physics) , applied psychology , medicine , engineering , sociology , social science , mechanical engineering
Workshops are a prevalent approach to fostering instructional development for both teaching assistants (TAs) and faculty. Frequently we evaluate workshops by asking participants to fill out a satisfaction‐oriented survey at the end. To what degree do such surveys evaluate adequately the workshop's long‐term effect on participants' learning? The authors explicate earlier investigative work on transfer of training, and present the results of a follow‐up survey to two groups of TA workshop participants designed to assess the degree to which conditions theoretically conducive to the transfer of training exist at their institution.