Workshop Survey Additional Questions

Purpose: Please reflect on this workshop and respond to a few additional questions. Your responses will help us to know what worked and what needs improvement, specific to the Career Prep workshop. Your responses to this survey will be kept confidential. We would like you to enter your name below. This will improve our ability to evaluate the program by allowing us to link information about your workshop experience to your responses to other evaluation instruments. The evaluators will remove any name in association with survey responses and will then share verbatim comments from all responses with the workshop convener(s).

Your name:

How well did this workshop encourage participation and establish a community that could work and learn throughout the program? Share any thoughts you have for approaches that worked or didn't work as well in this area.

How has this workshop changed your thinking about teaching? (what you teach; how you teach)

What do you consider to be the characteristics of a strong teaching activity?

How, if at all, have the workshop sessions influenced the institutions you will consider as a career path? (Are you considering institution types you hadn't considered before, and if so, how has your thinking/plan changed?)

Website
In order to move forward with what you learned at this workshop, what are the one or two things that are most critical for you to find and use on the Cutting Edge website?

Goals
Please rate to the extent you agree with the following statements with 4=Agree and 1=Disagree.

Materials on the website were useful in preparing for the workshop.

The logistics for the workshop were well executed.

I believe the goals of the workshop as stated were met:

a. Learn about roles and responsibilities of faculty members in different educational settings (e.g., two-year colleges, four-year colleges, universities).

b. Explore aspects of effective and innovative teaching.

c. Consider how to move research forward in different educational settings.

d. Learn about strategies for documenting strengths and accomplishments in teaching and research, and develop or revise supporting materials.

e. Learn more about the job search process.

f. Meet informally with other participants and with workshop leaders from a range of educational settings.

g. Develop or revise a plan for the next career stage.