Annual Report 2008.pdf - SAMSI

Appendix E – Workshop Evaluations
E.1 Overview of Workshop Evaluation
At each workshop, the participants are asked to complete the SAMSI Workshop
Evaluation, which asks the participants to rank the Workshop in terms of scientific quality, staff,
helpfulness, meeting facilities, lodging, and local transportation and then asks a series of
questions. A sample evaluation is included for review.
The following results are summaries of the evaluations completed after a total of fifteen
Workshops in the previous year broken into two categories: Program Workshops and Education
and Outreach (E&O) Workshops. The Program Workshops include the eight workshops held to
date for the 2007-08 Program Year together with the three 2006-07 Program Workshops that
occurred after the submission date of the 2006-07 Annual Report and were therefore not included
in that Annual Report. The E&O Workshops include the 3 workshops held to date for 2007-08
together with the final E&O Workshop from the 2006-07 year.
There are three Program Workshops and one E&O Workshop scheduled for the 2007-08
year and evaluations of these programs will be included in the 2008-09 Annual Report.
SAMSI Evaluation
Your feedback on this workshop is requested by SAMSI’s funding agencies, who
view it as important for assessing and improving our performance. Your feedback is
also gratefully appreciated by SAMSI’s directors, because it will enable us to
immediately improve SAMSI activities. Please fill out this form and hand it to a
SAMSI Staff Member, or return it by mail.
1. Personal Information: We are required by our funding agencies to obtain information –
in a standard format – about all participants in SAMSI activities. If you have not already done so,
please go to www.samsi.info/PartInfo/200708/participantinformationform0708.html to provide
this information. Note that if you have participated in a SAMSI activity since last July 1 and
completed this webform, you need not do so again, unless your personal information has
changed.
2. General Ratings: Poor Fair Good Very Excellent
Good .
a. Scientific Quality 1 2 3 4 5
b. Staff Helpfulness 1 2 3 4 5
c. Meeting Room/AV Facilities 1 2 3 4 5
d. Lodging 1 2 3 4 5
e. Local Transportation 1 2 3 4 5
2a. What were the positive aspects of the organization and running of this workshop?