R Consortium Funded Carpentries Instructor Training

R Consortium Funded Carpentries Instructor Training

Laurent Gatto
Software/Data Carpentry Instructor
Senior Research Associate, University of Cambridge, UK

For details and these slides, visit https://lgatto.github.io/SC-ICS-Proposal/

The Software and Data Carpentry

Their mission is to teach researchers in science, engineering, medicine [and humanities], and related disciplines the computing skills they need to get more done in less time and with less pain.

The quality and success of the Software and Data Carpentry bootcamps is assured by high-quality, pedagogically sound, collaboratively developed and openly-available teaching material and instructors, who themselves are trained in effective teaching methodology.

The workshop

• Proposal: We would like to organise a 2-day in-person Software Carpentry instructor training with a focus on R.
• Accepted: February 2016
• Training: 19-20 September 2016 (Cambridge, UK), 29 participants
• Blog post

Outputs: Status on 6 January 2017

• 10 completed (most for both DC and SC)
• about half a dozen are in progress
• remaining dozen haven’t done anything since the training ended

Our one-year completion rate is somewhere 40% - 60%, depending on the group. When we start poking people at the end of Jauary (“finish or time out”), we’ll see an up-tick.

Outputs: formative assessment

Q: What is the correct answer for x + y when:

    x <- c(1, 2, 3, 4)
    y <- c(1, 2)

1. 2 4 4 6 (correct)
2. 2 3 4 5 (added 1 to positions 3 and 4 in x)
3. 2 4 3 4 (forgot to recycle)
4. 2 4 (did not recycle the shorter vector to the longer)

More examples in the grant repo.