Purpose: Please reflect on the Rendezvous experience and let us know what worked and what needs improvement. Your input is valuable to us as we plan future Rendezvous events. We would like you to enter your name below, but your responses to this survey will be kept confidential. This will improve our ability to evaluate the program by allowing us to link information about your Rendezvous experience to your responses to other evaluation instruments. The evaluators will remove any name in association with survey responses and will then share aggregated verbatim comments from all participants' responses with the Rendezvous convener(s). We may use direct quotes to illustrate important points in project reports, professional publications,or conference presentations, as described in the Rendezvous evaluation, but when individual quotes are used, any identifying information will be removed to protect anonymity.
(Morning) Workshop Leader (Afternoon) Mini-Workshop Leader Session Chair Oral Session Presenter Poster Session Presenter Teaching Demo Presenter Roundtable Discussion Leader Participant Other (please explain)
Which morning workshop(s) did you attend at Rendezvous?
Learn about geoscience education research Network with other faculty Gain new teaching ideas Gain new ideas for improving programs for my department Meet with a working group Attend a particular workshop Present my work Other (please elaborate)
Multi-day workshops (morning) Please select: 3 - very useful 2 - somewhat useful 1 - not at all useful Mini-workshops (afternoon) Please select: 3 - very useful 2 - somewhat useful 1 - not at all useful Teaching demonstrations Please select: 3 - very useful 2 - somewhat useful 1 - not at all useful Roundtable discussions Please select: 3 - very useful 2 - somewhat useful 1 - not at all useful Poster sessions Please select: 3 - very useful 2 - somewhat useful 1 - not at all useful Oral sessions Please select: 3 - very useful 2 - somewhat useful 1 - not at all useful Plenary talks Please select: 3 - very useful 2 - somewhat useful 1 - not at all useful Fieldtrips Please select: 3 - very useful 2 - somewhat useful 1 - not at all useful Sunday camps (activity review and NGSS) Please select: 3 - very useful 2 - somewhat useful 1 - not at all useful Networking throughout Please select: 3 - very useful 2 - somewhat useful 1 - not at all useful Meeting with a working group Please select: 3 - very useful 2 - somewhat useful 1 - not at all useful Other (please specify)
If no, please explain why not:
The pre-Rendezvous communications gave me the information I needed to learn about and prepare for the Rendezvous. Please select: 4 - agree 3 - tend to agree 2 - tend to disagree 1 - disagree Materials on the website were useful in preparing for the Rendezvous. Please select: 4 - agree 3 - tend to agree 2 - tend to disagree 1 - disagree The communications during the Rendezvous (evening email updates, etc.) were helpful for planning my next day. Please select: 4 - agree 3 - tend to agree 2 - tend to disagree 1 - disagree The Rendezvous sessions were well facilitated. Please select: 4 - agree 3 - tend to agree 2 - tend to disagree 1 - disagree The design of the Rendezvous program facilitated exchange of expertise among participants Please select: 4 - agree 3 - tend to agree 2 - tend to disagree 1 - disagree Please comment on any of your ratings, particularly if you disagreed with any item: Did you either post to or follow social media postings about the Earth Educator's Rendezvous? Yes No
The intent of the Rendezvous format was to offer a set of activities that would allow participants to create a customized experience where participants could synthesize and integrate their learning across these different types of activities.
If you did not previously attend Rendezvous, please skip ahead to the questions in the Community of Practice section.
If yes (you have had interactions with someone you met at Rendezvous), in what ways have you interacted? (Choose as many that apply) Exchanging ideas and/or resources around teaching Exchange ideas and/or resources around science education research Exchanging ideas and/or resources around diversity/broadening access Writing a proposal together Write a paper together Mentoring/Mutual Support Other (please specify)
If yes (you have had interactions with someone you met at Rendezvous), in what ways have you interacted? (Choose as many that apply)
Wenger (2004) defines community of practice as groups of people who share a concern or interest related to something they do and they learn how to do it better as they interact regularly. One of the goals of Rendezvous was to deepen and broaden a community of practice.
Please select the types of ongoing supports that would benefit you in sustaining a community of practice in between annual Rendezvous meetings?
Webinars Regional Workshops Traveling workshops that would come to my department Opportunities to meet with colleagues in my region Other (please elaborate)
I had difficulty finding money to attend. The distance needed to travel made it difficult to attend. It was challenging to time find time off. Other (please elaborate)
This was the third Rendezvous and we are eager for your feedback and suggestions for how to improve. Would you attend a future Rendezvous meeting?
Teaching and learning about earth education is an endeavor undertaken by a wide variety of professionals in different fields. We would like to know from what fields of study Rendezvous participants are coming.
