Datagrid Girl

Marcie, ASP.NET Datagrid Blogger Girl

Tech Ed Evaluation forms

I'm not sure I understand the logic behind having online-only evaluations for the sessions at Tech Ed.  What's the incentive for an attendee to go take their own time, sometime after the session, to fill one of these things out?  In days past when these things were on paper, there was someone standing at the back of each session to collect them and so you filled them out so you wouldn't have to feel bad when passing that person.  At least put the people who fill out evaluations online into a prize drawing or something, so that there's a reason (and a reminder) to go and do an evaluation.  I would think most people under the current system would only go to the trouble if a session is either really good, or really bad.

Anyway, just a thought.

--Marcie

Posted: May 27 2004, 05:53 PM by datagridgirl | with 1 comment(s)

Comments

Alex Lowe said:

I think the idea is that if you attend these kinds of events with any regularity then you know that the same people speak at all of them. It is in the best interest of the attendee to fill out an eval so that the "right" people are speaking or not speaking at the next event. I guess this line of thinking will still result in more people filling out evals because they really liked or really didn't like a speaker but that is ok too in that it still ensure the "right" people are there next time.

My understandng is that SmartPhones are being raffled off to those who have filled out evaluations.
See http://geekswithblogs.net/dsmith/archive/2004/05/27/5450.aspx
# May 28, 2004 2:08 AM
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