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Teacher/Faculty Workshop Evaluations

Instrument 1: Building for Tomorrow - Telephone Follow-up Survey

Project: New Jersey Center for Advanced Technological Education: Building for Tomorrow
Middlesex County College

Funding Source: DUE

Purpose: To gather information about what follow-up activities workshop participants have pursued

Administered To: High school teachers and administrators who attended certain summer workshops that were designed to help them get students to participate in robotics and other STEM competition

Topics Covered:

  • Background Characteristics & Activities (Student): family characteristics
  • Impact on Outcomes: career interests, extracurricular activities, project continuation, teacher interest, teacher knowledge, teacher skills, teacher understanding, technology
  • Implementation Characteristics: admin support, resource/materials access
  • Limitations & Barriers: institutional constraints
  • Perceptions (Teacher/Faculty): impact, mentoring/support, project
  • Plans and Expectations (Teacher/Faculty): continue project involvement, project impact

Format/Length: Contains 28 open-ended items, some of which require specific answers, and some of which solicit comments. Also contains 1 item that solicits a rating, and one item that requires a selection.

APPENDIX A

BUILDING FOR TOMORROW--Telephone Follow-up Survey

Date________________
Institution_________________________
Educator____________________________
Phone___________________________

You (and your colleagues) participated in the Building for Tomorrow Institute at ______________________________ in the summer of ________. Is this correct?

What is your role at _____________________ High School? i.e.,administrator, teacher (what discipline?)
_________________________________________________________

  1. Looking back on the Building for Tomorrow Institute:
    1. On a scale of 1-5, with 1 being poor and 5 being excellent, how would you rate the overall workshop? _____
    2. What was the single most important thing that you got out of the BFT summer institute?
      3. ____________________________________________________________________________
      ___________________________________________________________

  2. As a result of participation in Building for Tomorrow, has your school engaged in any robotics competitions? _______________ If YES, describe the event or events. (date, name of event, location.)
    3. ____________________________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________

  3. As a result of participation in Building for Tomorrow, has your school engaged in any other science, technology, engineering or mathematics event or competition? ____________ If YES, describe the event or events.
    4. ____________________________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________

  4. (If respondent answered YES to either #2 or #3 above):
    1. As a result of participation in the (robotics or other student) competition(s), are the students who participated in the competition generally more interested in technological careers? ____________
      Are the students who participated in the competition generally more comfortable with technological concepts? ___________


    2. Please provide participant information for competitions.
        Number of student participants ________
      Number of minority (African American & Hispanic) student participants _________
      Number of female student participants ____________
      Number of teacher participants ____________
      (If you cannot provide this information now, please indicate how we can get this data from you in the next 10 days. I.e., is there someone else we can contact to gather this information? Please provide their name, contact information.)


    3. Have you applied for the Building for Tomorrow grant that is available? (Each school who participated in BFT is eligible for up to $800 to defray the costs of participating in a STEM competition.) ___________ If NO, why not?
      4. ____________________________________________________________________________
      ___________________________________________________________

  5. As a result of participation in Building for Tomorrow, are you and your colleagues considering participation in any future robotics or other science or technology competition or program? (This includes ongoing participation if they have already done so.) __________ If YES, describe the anticipated event or events.
    6. ____________________________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________

  6. What other benefits have resulted at your school as a result of participation in the Building for Tomorrow Institute? (e.g., teachers' level of comfort with technology heightened? Teachers incorporating any knowledge acquired at BFT into their classrooms? )
    7. ____________________________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________

  7. (If answers to #2, #3 and #5 above are NO): What are the barriers to implementing a robotics competition or other program at your school?
    ___No resources
    ___Lack of time on educators' parts
    ___Educators are not interested
    ___Students are not interested
    Other? _______________________________________________________
  8. Did an administrator from _____________ High School attend the BFT summer institute? ________ Did this influence the extent to which your school participated in subsequent competitions? Did this influence the extent to which your school implemented any of the BFT concepts? Explain.
    9. ____________________________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________

  9. What can the Building for Tomorrow team do to make participation in subsequent competitions and programs more appealing and/or doable?
    10. ____________________________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________

  10. What other comments would you like to make regarding the Building for Tomorrow program?
    11. ____________________________________________________________________________
    ____________________________________________________________________________
    ___________________________________________________________