Presenting Mathematical Concepts on the World Wide Web

Course Evaluation

Here are twenty (or so) questions about this workshop. Your answers to these questions will help shape the future of workshops like this, whether on the same topic or on other developments. Your help with this is very much appreciated, particularly since this has been an experimental endeavor on the part of both the MAA and your workshop leader.

Hint: To reduce the risk that you will get part of the way through this exercise and somehow lose the information you have painstakingly entered, I suggest you use the File / Open New Browser option to open a second browser window. Don't go forward or back out of this window once you've started to complete it. If you want to go and look at anything else for a moment, you can do it in that other window. Then click on back to the window where this form has remained visible in order to complete your answers.

(Optional) My name is:

  1. The best thing about this workshop (the one thing you should definitely keep in any future version of it) is:

  2. The worst thing about this workshop (the one thing you need to revise before you ever consider doing this again) is:

  3. When I compare my achievements in this workshop to my expectations:

    I've learned more than I'd hoped... 6 5 4 3 2 1 ... Completely missed the mark.

    I spent more time than I'd planned for... 5 4 3
    (match)     		2 1 ... I spent less time than I'd feared.

    In all, I've spent about hours on workshop activities.

  4. The registration process for this workshop was:

    A snap ... 6 5 4 3 2 1 ... A big hassle.

  5. Access to the workshop materials was:

    Easy & reliable ... 6 5 4 3 2 1 ... Almost impossible.

  6. The overall clarity of the workshop materials was:

    Perfectly clear ... 6 5 4 3 2 1 ... Thicker than mud.

  7. The overall usefulness of the workshop materials for my needs was:

    A great match ... 6 5 4 3 2 1 ... Irrelevant.

  8. The most useful section of the workshop for me was:

  9. The most confusing section of the workshop for me was:

  10. The least relevant section of the workshop for me was:

  11. Topic(s) that need to be added to this workshop include:

  12. Access to the workshop instructor via email was:

    Quick & easy ... 6 5 4 3 2 1 ... What instructor?

  13. Access to the workshop instructor via telephone was:

    Very useful ... 6 5 4 3 2 1 ... Simply useless.

  14. The comments and feedback I received from the workshop instructor were:

    Helpful ... 6 5 4 3 2 1 ... From another planet.

  15. The workshop mailing list was:

    Useful ... 6 5 4 3 2 1 ... A needless complication.

  16. The comments and feedback I received from other participants via the workshop mailing list were:

    Helpful ... 6 5 4 3 2 1 ... Worthless.

  17. If, two weeks before this course started, I had received email with a list of software tools to have installed on my local machine before the first session, the likelihood that I would actually have had it all in place and running by the deadline is:

    High - it would have been all ready. 6 5 4 3 2 1 Low - at most I might have logged on early the first morning to do it...

    (Note: This is not asking what you would do now. It is asking what you would have done then!)

  18. In 1996, this workshop was offered as a one-week on-site event. In 1997, it was converted to a three-week remote event. Although I only participated in the latter, based on my experience with other professional development workshops, my guess is that a direct comparison of the two would show that the better format on each of the following dimensions is:

    • Whether I would have been able to participate at all:

      Three-Week Remote 6 5 4 3 2 1 One-Week On-Site

    • The amount of time during the workshop that participants can spend learning specific techniques and developing actual content:

      Three-Week Remote 6 5 4 3 2 1 One-Week On-Site

    • The amount of time that participants must spend locating and installing software tools, or dealing with their own local systems administration issues, just to determine if an approach will be of use:

      Three-Week Remote 6 5 4 3 2 1 One-Week On-Site

    • Being able to stay focused on the content of the workshop and development of one's own course project:

      Three-Week Remote 6 5 4 3 2 1 One-Week On-Site

    • The best value for money (counting all the associated $$ costs):

      Three-Week Remote 6 5 4 3 2 1 One-Week On-Site

    • The version I'd most likely choose next time around, if I had a choice of equivalent content via either format:

      Three-Week Remote 6 5 4 3 2 1 One-Week On-Site

  19. If a colleague asked me whether to enroll in a workshop like this next summer, I would say:

    Go for it! 6 5 4 3 2 1 Keep away!

  20. If a workshop like this were to be offered next summer, and the instructor was looking for experienced assistants, I would say:

    Pick me! Pick me! 6 5 4 3 2 1 Don't even look my way...

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Presenting Mathematical Concepts on the World Wide Web. Copyright © 1997 by Carol Scheftic. All rights reserved. (This course is based on a workshop originally offered at The Geometry Center and adapted with permission.) Please send comments on this page, or requests for permission to re-use material from this page, to: scheftic@geom.umn.edu
Page established 29-Jul-97; last updated Thursday, 31-Jul-1997 22:29:31 CDT.