Professional and Organizational Development Network in Higher Education

 

Date of this Version

2002

Document Type

Article

Citation

To Improve the Academy: A Journal of Educational Development (2002) 20; doi: 10.3998/tia.17063888.0020.009

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License: CC BY-NC-ND

Abstract

Workshops are a prevalent approach to fostering instructional development for both teaching assistants (TAs) and faculty. Frequently we evaluate workshops by asking participants to fill out a satisfaction-oriented survey at the end. To what degree do such surveys evaluate adequately the workshop’s long-term effect on participants’ learning? The authors explicate earlier investigative work on transfer of training, and present the results of a follow-up survey to two groups of TA workshop participants designed to assess the degree to which conditions theoretically conducive to the transfer of training exist at their institution.

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