Training Metrics

(Migrated from Talk:Education Committee/Education Committee meeting 28 May 2013)

#	Type of advantage	Specifics	Quantifiable?	Comments and examples
1	Training	Increased editing of the projects by trainees	Y	The assumption is that trainees continue editing with the same account, and accounts are logged at the workshop
2	Training	Spread of know-how through an institution by a trainee	Y	Survey prior to session, survey again one month later
3	Training	More appropriate editing by a trainee	N	For example, if a trainee who is on the comms staff of an institution simply refrains from editing with a conflict of interest, in the Wikipedia sense, who is to know? But the outcome is positive for Wikipedia.
4a	Training	Trainee considers workshop a contribution to their professional development	N	This the flip side of the previous point: the training might actually be advantageous to the trainee, and conventionally this is understood to be the case. One unquantifiable plus from the Midas training-for-trainers would be that this sort of point is featured, implicitly and explicitly.
4b	Training	Workshop is accepted as a contribution to their professional development.	Y	Work with suitable agencies to get courses recognised as part of CPD programme. This would be quite a substantial piece of work
5	Outreach	Wikimedia awareness	Y	People generally have no idea of the various different meanings of "Wikimedia" (there being at least three) Survey prior to session, survey again one month later
6	Outreach	Referrals	More a question of logging than counting	For example: trainers are invited back by an institution. A trainer is invited to speak at a non-WMUK conference. A workshop results in a student project. (These are recent real-life examples.) Word-of-mouth from one institution to another.
7	Outreach	Returning customers	Hit and miss	Someone coming to a workshop goes to another, a conference, a meetup ...

Please also consider the monitoring elements explained here.