Feedback Form for R Coordinators' workshop held on 12 October 2019

Dear Participant,

We thank you for your valuable feedback about the Workshop and the Self-Learning experience, as it will help us enhance the quality of our work. Kindly click on the best option that describes your views. You can also provide your comments in the spaces provided in the form. Your response will be kept confidential.

Thank you for your time!

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Questions marked with are mandatory



1. Name





2. Name of YOUR Institute





3. Location of YOUR Institute (Please choose one)

  Urban            Rural          



4. Name any other statistical computing and graphical software you are familiar with:





5. This question refers to any R workshop/training you may have had BEFORE this workshop. Please enter the total number of days of the workshop/training you have undergone before. If you have not gone through any workshop/training before, please choose 0 days.

  0 days            1 day            2 - 4 days            5 - 7 days            Above 7 days         



6. Have you used R before? If yes, how long have you been using it? (If no, then please select the option 'Never used before')

  Never used before            less than 1 year            less than 3 years            less than 5 years            more than 5 years         



Tutorials completed during the workshop


7. Total number of tutorials practised/watched during the workshop under the following series. (If none, then please select the option '0')







8. Rate your experience in performing the following assignments during the workshop. Kindly respond using the scale given below, wherein 1 implies "extremely easy" and 5 implies " extremely difficult".

  1     2     3     4     5      Not Applicable  
Create a new folder
Assign a folder as a working directory
Find out the categorical variables using built-in dataset iris
Create a matrix from two vectors
Use built-in functions in R
Zoom-in plots in R
Plot a histogram
Plot a pie chart
Create a bar chart of critics_score for the first 10 movies
Create a scatter plot of imdb_rating and imdb_num_votes
View datasets in R
Rename variable name mpg and cyl with MilesPerGallon and Cylinder in dataset mtcars
Create a 4 by 2 matrix from these two vectors (c (9 10 11 12) and c (13 14 15 16))
Create a numeric vector c(1:5) and a 5 by 3 matrix with elements from 1 to 15
Using built-in dataset mtcars find the cars with hp greater than 100 and cyl equal to 3
Using select function select the variables Ozone Wind and Temp in built-in dataset airquality





9. Were the assignments given at the end of each spoken tutorial useful?

  Yes            No            Not sure         



10. If your answer to the above question is NO, briefly explain the difficulties you experienced.





11. Would you like us to include more spoken tutorials for R?

  Yes            No         



12. If your answer to the above question is YES, please suggest some topics:





13. Do you have any statistical computing and graphical software lab, e.g. SPSS, SAS in your college?

  Yes            No         



14. We help colleges to shift labs based on proprietary tools to Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS). Would you like to migrate your lab to R?

  Yes            No         



Feedback on the Workshop


15. Rate the following aspects of the workshop

   Excellent      Good      Acceptable     Bad      Extremely bad  
Quality of instructional material
Quality of audio-video connection (A-VIEW)
Quality of the location of the Remote Centre
Quality of resources at the Remote Centre
Quality of support at the Remote Centre
Quality of food at the Remote Centre
Quality of the workshop overall





16. I feel confident that I can conduct the main workshop on R using the Spoken Tutorial Methodology at my Remote Centre on 09 November 2019.

  Yes             No            Not Sure         



17. After the main R workshop on 9 Nov. 2019, we would like to hold an online test on R for all 5,000 participants. They will be able to appear for the test from their own colleges. In your opinion, what will be the convenient dates for this test? (For e.g. within two weeks, within three weeks, within a month, etc.)





18. Select the option that describes your response:

   Highly likely      Likely      Probably     Unlikely      Not at all likely      Not Applicable  
If I get support from my management I will use R in the near future.





19. Would you want such a workshop in any other topic?

  Yes            No            Not Sure         



20. If your answer to the above question is Yes, please suggest a topic:





Comments/Suggestions


21. What did you like about the workshop?





22. Any suggestions to improve this training method





23. Please share your experience of using Spoken Tutorial Forums





24. Any other feedback or help needed