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YSP Evaluation 2008-2009

YSP Evaluation 2008-2009. Progress toward 2008 Goals/Reccomendations. Improve SFP Boot Camp and Writing Course: Accomplished Changes sucessful based on evaluation comments Enhance YSP Website: Partially Accomplished More info on website, but ongoing reccomendation for improvemnts

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YSP Evaluation 2008-2009

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  1. YSP Evaluation 2008-2009

  2. Progress toward 2008 Goals/Reccomendations • Improve SFP Boot Camp and Writing Course: Accomplished • Changes sucessful based on evaluation comments • Enhance YSP Website: Partially Accomplished • More info on website, but ongoing reccomendation for improvemnts • Implement short-form evaluations: Partially Accomplished • Boot Camp and Writing Course… expand to other parts of program? • Formal assessment of outcomes and program benefits: Ongoing • Holts Evaluation; more systematic analysis • Timeline for implementation of changes: Accomplished • Evaluation based changes made in

  3. Research Boot Camp/Writing Course • Boot Camp: 2009 78% of students ranked positive; 2008 54% • Comments: include more detail, include less detail, more related to projects, etc. • HIPAA training • Writing Course: 2009 100% of students ranked positive; 2008 54% • Comments: “homework?,” peer review useful • Devi, Kate: Plans for next year?

  4. 2009/10 Recommendations A) Using the 2009 summer program comments the individual activities should be revised to better meet participant needs • Seminars: Herzog, Ross most popular • Journal Club: popular topics, but found some papers difficult • Genome Center Tour: interesting, but why so important?

  5. Recommendations • Evaluate how each program works as a whole to better integrate the parts and to address time management issues” -Mentors and Students report activities as drain on in-lab time

  6. Recommendations • Mentors and tutor need to have a better idea of what their roles are, how much time they should spend with sutdents and what techniques they might use to be successful in helping the students • Create one page job descriptions for mentor/tutor recruitment • Creat an information packet for those who miss training sessions • Continue to develop tutor/mentor training that includes “how to communicate with HS students” - Mentors found 2008 prep-material helpful - Mentors recruited early reported more organization & more time with students -Difficulty getting students up to speed, limited assistance from tutors outside lab background

  7. Recommendations D) Evaluations from the school year and special events should be used and analyzed systematically -critical mass? E) Program goals and outcomes should be revised annaully based on participant evaluations and input • Make statements more specific as we get ore information from students • Decide YSP role in HS students’ college attendance • Admissions discussion?

  8. Recommendations F) With input from YSP participants, continue to chane the YSP website so that it will serve as an electronic community center where YSP leaders communicate with participants and participants are encouraed to share epxeriences with one another

  9. Warm Fuzzies • “I feel so much more confident in my understanding of what scientists do, why science is important and how science will affect the future. Therefore my students’ learning will be much more focused on what is really important.”

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