Thanks for writing this! I find that I wind up linking to postmortem assessments like this one quite often when people ask me for advice about their project ideas, and I’d be surprised if I never have cause to share this (as I’ve shared similar Forum writeups from EAGx Boston, SHIC, etc.)
One question: How did you attempt to get responses for your exit survey? 7⁄15 is a pretty low rate, and while I see why it’s not great to bother people too much once they’ve finished your program, I’d be interested whether many of the non-respondents reported “no change”.
(I’ve been at a few EA events where surveys were conducted at the end of the event, everyone filling them out at once, but I don’t know whether that was practical for a program like this, where people may have needed time to think afterward in order to answer with confidence.)
iirc, we actually did prompt them to take the exit survey and give them time to fill it out during the fourth meeting, but clearly not everyone did. But my memory of that is really not clear. We had been in breakout groups most of that session so maybe there was too much disorder when we asked them to take a survey at the end of that. And if we had done that then they wouldn’t have had their one-on-one meetings with us yet.
For the 9 month follow-up we just sent them an email.
Thanks for writing this! I find that I wind up linking to postmortem assessments like this one quite often when people ask me for advice about their project ideas, and I’d be surprised if I never have cause to share this (as I’ve shared similar Forum writeups from EAGx Boston, SHIC, etc.)
One question: How did you attempt to get responses for your exit survey? 7⁄15 is a pretty low rate, and while I see why it’s not great to bother people too much once they’ve finished your program, I’d be interested whether many of the non-respondents reported “no change”.
(I’ve been at a few EA events where surveys were conducted at the end of the event, everyone filling them out at once, but I don’t know whether that was practical for a program like this, where people may have needed time to think afterward in order to answer with confidence.)
iirc, we actually did prompt them to take the exit survey and give them time to fill it out during the fourth meeting, but clearly not everyone did. But my memory of that is really not clear. We had been in breakout groups most of that session so maybe there was too much disorder when we asked them to take a survey at the end of that. And if we had done that then they wouldn’t have had their one-on-one meetings with us yet.
For the 9 month follow-up we just sent them an email.