Pre-, Mid-, and Post-Course Evaluation Surveys for the 2014 Open Science for Synthesis (OSS) Training Workshop

Pre-, Mid-, and
Post-Course Evaluation Surveys for the 2014 Open Science for Synthesis (OSS)
Training Workshop 

Please cite as:

Rebich-Hespanha S, Jones MB, Schildhauer MP, Idaszak R, Aukema JE,
Hampton SE, Regetz J, Lenhardt WC, Ahalt S. (2016). Pre-, Mid-, and Post-Course
Evaluation Surveys for the 2014 Open Science for Synthesis (OSS) Training
Workshop. figshare. doi: 10.6084/m9.figshare.2070082
About
Open Science for Synthesis
Open Science for Synthesis is a unique bi-coastal training offered for
early career scientists who want to learn new software and technology skills
needed for open, collaborative, and reproducible synthesis research.

UC Santa Barbara’s National Center for Ecological Analysis and
Synthesis (NCEAS) and University of North Carolina’s Renaissance Computing
Institute (RENCI) co-led Open Science for Synthesis (#OSS2014) as a three-week
intensive training workshop with participants in both Santa Barbara, CA and
Chapel Hill, NC from July 21 - August 8, 2014. The training was sponsored by
the Institute for Sustainable Earth and
Environmental Software (ISEES) and the Water Science
Software Institute (WSSI), both of which are conceptualizing an institute for
sustainable scientific software.

Participants received hands-on guided experience using best practices
in the technical aspects that underlie successful open science and synthesis –
from data discovery and integration to analysis and visualization, and special
techniques for collaborative scientific research, including virtual
collaboration over the Internet. A dynamic group of instructors provided for a
mixture of instructive lectures, discussions forums, exercises, and real world
application of skills to synthesis projects.

More information about the OSS training workshop can be found at https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/OSS.

About
the Surveys
This document contains 3 surveys: pre-course, mid-course, and post-course.
Questions appear in this document in the order in which they appeared in the
surveys. Question numbers (Qxx)
serve as unique IDs for questions. In cases when the same question is used in
more than one survey, the same question number is associated with that question
in both surveys. Notes in curly brackets {} indicate relationships between
questions that appeared in different surveys.

The survey questions cover topics such as demographic characteristics,
educational background and training, analytical and technical proficiencies,
data management, experience with research collaboration and science
communication, attitudes toward the open science paradigm, learning
preferences, satisfaction with virtual interaction experienced during the
workshop, self-assessment of progress, satisfaction with content and delivery
of course curriculum, and perceptions of trade-offs (environmental, economic,
diversity-related) associated with participating virtually as opposed to in
person.

Some of the questions included in these surveys were developed by
Juliann E. Aukema, Stephanie E. Hampton, and Jim Regetz for evaluation of the 2013
NCEAS Summer Institute (https://www.nceas.ucsb.edu/outreach/summer-institute/2013/summer-institute-2013).