J Med Libr Assoc. 2021 Jul 1;109(3):490-496. doi: 10.5195/jmla.2021.1047.
Over four years of hosting library data workshops, we conducted post-workshop evaluation of attendees' satisfaction with the workshops but not longer-term follow-up. To best allocate library resources and most effectively serve the needs of our users, we sought to determine whether our data workshops were impactful and useful to our community. This paper describes a pilot project to evaluate the impact of data workshops at our academic health sciences library.
We surveyed individuals who signed up for data workshops between 2016 and 2019. Surveys included open-ended and multiple-choice questions, with the goal of having participants describe their motivations for taking the workshop(s) and how they ultimately used what they learned. An analysis of responses using the Applied Thematic Analysis model indicated that the workshops had an impact on the respondents, although the strength of our conclusions is limited by a relatively low response rate.
Survey results indicated that our workshops impacted how researchers at our medical center collect and analyze data, supporting the conclusion that we should concentrate our educational efforts on providing skills-based workshops. The low response rate and time-consuming nature of the analysis point toward several improvements for future evaluation efforts, including better tracking of workshop attendees, a shorter survey with fewer open-ended questions, and survey implementation within one year of the workshop date.
在举办图书馆数据研讨会的四年多时间里，我们对与会者对研讨会的满意度进行了会后评估，但没有进行更长期的跟踪。为了合理分配图书馆资源并最有效地满足用户的需求，我们希望确定我们的数据研讨会是否对我们的社区有影响和帮助。本文描述了我们学术健康科学图书馆的一个评估数据研讨会影响的试点项目。
我们调查了 2016 年至 2019 年间报名参加数据研讨会的个人。调查问卷包括开放式和多项选择题，目的是让参与者描述他们参加研讨会的动机，以及他们最终如何运用所学知识。使用应用主题分析模型对回复进行分析表明，这些研讨会对受访者产生了影响，尽管由于回复率相对较低，我们的结论的说服力有限。
调查结果表明，我们的研讨会影响了我们医疗中心的研究人员收集和分析数据的方式，这支持了我们应该集中精力提供基于技能的研讨会的结论。低回复率和分析的耗时性质表明，未来的评估工作需要进行一些改进，包括更好地跟踪研讨会参与者、使用更少的开放式问题的更简短的调查，以及在研讨会日期后的一年内实施调查。
