Case Study: Technology Boot Camp at the Nursing School

In August 2001 the Medical Library offered a new orientation on training program for all incoming new students at the Yale School of Nursing called Technology Boot Camp. This program was announced as a mandatory orientation session (although attendance was not taken). Boot Camp consisted of four 40-minute sessions that the students rotated through. The sessions were Blackboard, Library Resources, Searching Ovid Databases (with a brief Endnote introduction), and using the Yale network. The YSN administration asked that we design and administer a questionnaire to evaluate the usefulness of the or ientation to students. We designed a quick form to elicit feedback on 1) course content and 2) instructor presentation.

Students were asked to respond to statements about the information and the instructors in Technology Boot Camp by checking one of the following: Strongly agree, Agree, Disagree, Strongly disagree, or No opinion.

These responses were then coded from 4 to 0 as follows:

• Strongly agree=4
• Agree=3
• Disagree=2
• Strongly Disagree=1
• No opinion=no score

Scores were entered in a spreadsheet and an average score for each statement was computed.

In addition to the class evaluation, we added several questions aimed at gauging the technology use of entering students. Students were asked to check the column indicating their level of frequency (e.g., every day, once a week, etc.) of use of a particular software. A checked column was recorded as a 1, a non-checked column was recorded as a 0. Again scores were entered in a spreadsheet, but in this case the responses were totaled, not averaged.

see: Self Evaluation form (.doc format)
see: Class Evaluation form (.doc format)

contact: Katie Bauer for more information

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